ClinVar Genomic variation as it relates to human health

Each variant was annotated with functional scores from MAVE data which was translated into functional evidence codes. All other evidence codes and combining criteria were adhered to as closely as possible based on the ClinGen VCEP (Variant Curation Expert Panel) gene-specific recommendations. See Supplemental Figure 34 of final paper (Supp Fig. 28 in preprint: doi:10.1101/2024.04.11.24305690) for a table to see which lines of evidence we did not have data for. The ClinGen VCEPs are highly regarded as the gold-standard for gene-specific variant curation and are developed after extensive evaluation of the evidence by clinical and scientific experts for the particular gene to classify genomic variants on a spectrum from pathogenic to benign using the 2015 ACMG/AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines as a backbone (PMID: 25741868). Reclassification of these VUS variants from gnomAD or All of Us focused only on variants originally prescribed as VUS in ClinVar. To ensure reproducibility, transparency, and increased throughput, all the procedures for annotating variants and assigning evidence codes were codified using Python. All code has been made freely available and is linked in the Code Availability section and all reclassified variants with evidence codes used can be found in Tables S18-19 (preprint: doi:10.1101/2024.04.11.24305690). For the MAVE data, the clinical curation and clinical strength assignment as per the ClinGen recommendations in Brnich et al. (2020) (PMID: 31892348) for or against pathogenicity or benignity of each of these MAVE datasets utilized in this study were previously published in Fayer et al. (2021) (PMID: 34793697).For TP53, we used the output of the Naïve Bayes classifier that synthesized data from four different TP53 MAVEs in Fayer et al. (2021) (PMID: 34793697). If the classifier predicted a variant to be "Functionally abnormal," the variant was assigned PS3 evidence and no BS3 evidence. If a variant was predicted to be "Functionally normal," BS3_moderate evidence was used with no PS3 evidence. This variant GRCh38:17:7675070:C>A was assigned evidence codes ['PS3', 'PP3_Moderate'] and an overall classification of Likely pathogenic

In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects TP53 function (PMID: 8756654, 10871862, 17606709, 20471942, 21343334). This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with leucine, which is neutral and non-polar, at codon 181 of the TP53 protein (p.Arg181Leu). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with glioma and anaplastic astrocytoma (PMID: 8308926). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 39420). 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 TP53 protein function.