ClinVar Genomic variation as it relates to human health

This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with cysteine, which is neutral and slightly polar, at codon 518 of the CACNA1C protein (p.Arg518Cys). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with long QT syndrome (LQTS), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and septal defects (CHD) (PMID: 26253506; Invitae). It has also been observed to segregate with disease in related individuals. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 190642). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) performed at Invitae indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt CACNA1C protein function with a positive predictive value of 95%. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects CACNA1C function (PMID: 26253506). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.

Not observed at significant frequency in large population cohorts (gnomAD); In silico analysis supports that this missense variant has a deleterious effect on protein structure/function; Whole cell patch clamp studies revealed a complex phenotype, including loss of current density and inactivation in combination with increased window and late current (PMID: 26253506); This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 27390944, 30513141, 30172029, 30345660, 30984024, 30681346, 31430211, 33797204, 35862440, Tikhonov2019[Review], 36454463, Vandendriessche2020[Review], 26253506, 32161207, 29071820, 34079780, 33746731, 30025578, 30584231)

The variant is not observed in the gnomAD v2.1.1 dataset. Missense changes are a common disease-causing mechanism. Functional studies provide strong evidence of the variant having a damaging effect on the gene or gene product (PMID:26253506). In silico tool predictions suggest damaging effect of the variant on gene or gene product (REVEL: 0.88; 3Cnet: 0.86). Same nucleotide change resulting in same amino acid change has been previously reported as pathogenic/likely pathogenic with strong evidence (ClinVar ID: VCV000190642). A different missense change at the same codon (p.Arg518His) has been reported as pathogenic/likely pathogenic with strong evidence (ClinVar ID: VCV000372313). Therefore, this variant is classified as pathogenic according to the recommendation of ACMG/AMP guideline.

Based on the classification scheme VCGS_Germline_v1.3.4, this variant is classified as Pathogenic. Following criteria are met: 0101 - Gain of function is a known mechanism of disease in this gene and is associated with LQTS (MIM#618447) and Timothy syndrome (MIM#601005). Missense variants result in loss of channel inactivation and increased current (OMIM, PMID: 25260352). (I) 0107 - This gene is associated with autosomal dominant disease. (I) 0200 - Variant is predicted to result in a missense amino acid change from arginine to cysteine. (I) 0251 - This variant is heterozygous. (I) 0301 - Variant is absent from gnomAD (both v2 and v3). (SP) 0309 - An alternative amino acid change at the same position has been observed in gnomAD (1 heterozygote, 0 homozygotes). (I) 0501 - Missense variant consistently predicted to be damaging by multiple in silico tools or highly conserved with a major amino acid change. (SP) 0600 - Variant is located in the annotated I-II cytoplasmic linker region (PMID: 30513141). (I) 0702 - Other missense variants comparable to the one identified in this case have moderate previous evidence for pathogenicity. These alternative changes (p.Arg518Ser, p.Arg518His) have been reported as likely pathogenic and pathogenic, and have been observed in multiple patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and Long QT syndrome (LQTS) (ClinVar, LOVD, PMID: 30513141, 30025578, 32161207). (SP) 0801 - This variant has strong previous evidence of pathogenicity in unrelated individuals. This variant has been reported as pathogenic and likely pathogenic, and has been observed in multiple patients with HCM, LQTS, congenital heart defects and sudden cardiac death (VCGS, LOVD, ClinVar, PMID: 30513141, 29071820, 30984024, 32161207). (SP) 1002 - This variant has moderate functional evidence supporting abnormal protein function. Transfected HEK293 cells have demonstrated both loss of function and gain of function effects on protein function, including slowed channel inactivation (PMID: 30513141). (SP) 1208 - Inheritance information for this variant is not currently available in this individual. (I) Legend: (SP) - Supporting pathogenic, (I) - Information, (SB) - Supporting benign

The p.R518C pathogenic mutation (also known as c.1552C>T), located in coding exon 12 of the CACNA1C gene, results from a C to T substitution at nucleotide position 1552. The arginine at codon 518 is replaced by cysteine, an amino acid with highly dissimilar properties. This alteration has been reported in multiple unrelated probands with mixed cardiac phenotypes, including long QT syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac conduction defects, and congenital heart disease, and has been reported to segregate with disease in several families (Boczek NJ et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol, 2015 Oct;8:1122-32; Seo SH et al. Ann Lab Med, 2018 Jan;38:54-58; Korkosh VS et al. Front Physiol, 2019 Mar;10:335; Fukuyama M et al. Circ J, 2020 03;84:559-568; GeneDx pers comm; Invitae pers comm; Ambry internal data). Functional studies performed in vitro indicate that R518C leads to a decrease in peak channel current density but an increase in the late calcium current (Boczek NJ et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol, 2015 Oct;8:1122-32; Estes SI et al. Circ Genom Precis Med, 2019 08;12:e002534). Another pathogenic alteration, p.R518H, has been described in the same codon (Boczek NJ et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol, 2015 Oct;8:1122-32). Based on the supporting evidence, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation.