ClinVar

Description

The PEX6 p.Arg644Gln variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in ClinVar, Cosmic or LOVD 3.0. The variant was identified in dbSNP (ID: rs746117128) and was found in control databases in 13 of 282672 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.000046 (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the following populations: Latino in 7 of 35440 chromosomes (freq: 0.000198), Other in 1 of 7220 chromosomes (freq: 0.000139), European (Finnish) in 1 of 25030 chromosomes (freq: 0.00004) and European (non-Finnish) in 4 of 129098 chromosomes (freq: 0.000031), while the variant was not observed in the African, Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian and South Asian populations. 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. The p.Arg644 residue is conserved in mammals but not in more distantly related organisms however four out of five computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, MutationTaster) do not suggest a high likelihood of impact to the protein; this information is not predictive enough to rule out pathogenicity. 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.