ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces arginine, which is basic and polar, with cysteine, which is neutral and slightly polar, at codon 256 of the PARK2 protein (p.Arg256Cys). This variant is present in population databases (rs150562946, gnomAD 0.06%), and has an allele count higher than expected for a pathogenic variant. This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with early- and late-onset Parkinson disease (PMID: 10072423, 12116199, 12730996, 12764050, 16367892, 19405094, 19636047, 32870915). In at least one individual the data is consistent with being in trans (on the opposite chromosome) from a pathogenic variant. This variant is also known as 867C>T. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 574874). 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) has been performed at Invitae for this missense variant, however the output from this modeling did not meet the statistical confidence thresholds required to predict the impact of this variant on PARK2 protein function. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects PARK2 function (PMID: 14519684, 16049031, 16714300, 25591737, 25939424). 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.