Description
The ACO2 p.Leu74Val variant was identified in the literature in two adult male siblings with optic atrophy beginning in childhood; the p.L74V variant was found as a compound heterozygous mutation with a ACO2 p.G661R variant. Decreased ACO2 protein levels were observed in fibroblasts from these two patients (Metodiev_2014_PMID:25351951). The variant was identified in dbSNP (ID: rs141772938) and ClinVar (classified as uncertain significance by Fulgent Genetics, GeneDx, EGL Genetics and Mayo Clinic, and as likely pathogenic by CeGaT Praxis fuer Humangenetik Tuebingen). The variant was identified in control databases in 1055 of 282256 chromosomes (4 homozygous) at a frequency of 0.003738 increasing the likelihood this could be a low frequency benign variant (Genome Aggregation Database March 6, 2019, v2.1.1). The variant was observed in the following populations: European (non-Finnish) in 839 of 128790 chromosomes (freq: 0.006514), Other in 30 of 7208 chromosomes (freq: 0.004162), European (Finnish) in 80 of 25082 chromosomes (freq: 0.00319), South Asian in 52 of 30602 chromosomes (freq: 0.001699), African in 23 of 24894 chromosomes (freq: 0.000924) and Latino in 31 of 35394 chromosomes (freq: 0.000876), but was not observed in the Ashkenazi Jewish or East Asian populations. The p.Leu74 residue is conserved in mammals and computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) provide inconsistent predictions regarding the impact to the protein; this information is not very predictive of pathogenicity. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer) do not predict a difference in splicing. In summary, based on the above information the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time. This variant is classified as a variant of uncertain significance.
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