KCNH2 Variant W568C Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 W568C is 25%. This variant was found in a total of 6 carriers in 3 papers or gnomAD (version 4), 5 had LQTS. W568C is not present in gnomAD. We have tested the trafficking efficiency of this variant, 0% of WT with a standard error of 4%; in our analysis we used SE < 20% as 'high quality'. Approximately below 50% of WT is considered PS3 moderate and below 30% is PS3 strong. W568C has not been functionally characterized. This residue is located in a Hotspot region for LQT2. In silico predictions, functional data (if available), and location in structure are equivalent to observing 2 individuals with LQT2 and 8 unaffected individuals.These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for KCNQ1 W568C around 25% (7/16).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-12.063 0.989 -3 0.978 83
PROVEAN scores less than -2 are considered deleterious. REVEL scores higher than 0.5 or 0.75 are considered likely pathogenic (higher sensitivity with the former cutoff, higher specificity with the latter cutoff). A PolyPhen-2 score of 0.85 or greater is considered likely pathogenic. BLAST-PSSM reflects the evolutionary conservation of residue substitutions, more negative numbers indicate fewer observations of the specific substitution than is expected. Penetrance density is our previously published method to calculate the average LQTS probability density in a shell of residues surrounding a residue of interest (Kroncke et al. 2019).

Reported Carrier Data

PubMed ID Year Carriers Unaffected LQT2 Other Disease
Italy Cohort 2020 2 0 2
France Cohort 2020 3 0 3
17905336 2007 1 1
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 6 1 5 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 10 8 2 -
Summary totals might not agree with the literature table because of duplicate patients, which were excluded from the total counts. We do not distinguish here between multiple missense codons. Missense variants are combined across degenerate codon substitutions since codon-level data were not consistently available for curation.

W568C has 71 previously observed neighbors within 15 angstroms

A residue within a folded protein on average has nearest neighbors that fall roughly into two shells: a "nearest" neighbor around 5-6 angstroms and a second shell around 11 angstroms. NOTE: some residues appear multiple times at different distances since the functional KV11.1 channel (protein product of KCNH2/hERG) is a homotetramer and occasionally the same residue from multiple subunits is present within the 15A window. All variants shown in the rightmost column have been observed in at least one individual in the literature or gnomAD.

Neighbor Distance (Angstroms) Variants Observed in Individuals
568 0 W568C, W568C,
585 5 W585C, W585C,
571 6 I571V, I571L,
614 6 A614T, A614V,
617 6 F617L, F617L, F617V, F617L,
640 6 F640Del, F640V, F640L, F640L, F640L,
637 6 E637G, E637X, E637K,
565 6
567 7 I567M, I567T,
570 7
569 7 Y569X, Y569H, Y569C,
572 7 G572C, G572D, G572R, G572S,
618 8 T618S, T618S,
564 8 L564L,
566 8 C566S, C566R, C566G, C566F, C566S,
632 8 P632A, P632S,
613 8 T613K, T613A, T613L, T613M,
630 8 V630I, V630A, V630T,
641 9 S641P, S641F,
636 9
586 9 L586M,
631 9 S631F,
615 9 L615V, L615F,
573 10
634 10 T634S, T634P, T634S, T634I, T634A,
644 10 V644I, V644F,
584 10 G584C, G584S, G584R,
621 10 S621R, S621N, S621R, S621R,
610 10
638 11 K638R, K638E, K638D, K638Del,
616 11 Y616S,
561 11 A561V, A561P, A561T,
611 11 Y611D,
639 11 I639F, I639N,
633 11 N633I, N633S, N633D,
620 11 S620G, S620I,
643 11
575 11 E575K,
612 11 V612L, V612L, V612A,
589 11 L589P,
431 12 F431L, F431L, F431L,
574 12 M574V, M574L, M574L,
562 12 H562P, H562Q, H562R, H562Q,
430 12
588 12 N588K, N588D, N588K,
627 12 F627L, F627fsX, F627L, F627X, F627L,
619 12
642 12 I642Del, I642V,
609 13 D609G, D609N,
622 13 L622F,
635 13 N635I,
645 13 M645I, M645L, M645V, M645I, M645I, M645R, M645L,
616 13 Y616S,
587 13
563 13 W563X, W563C, W563G, W563C,
629 13 N629S, N629K, N629K, N629D, N629I, N629T,
628 13 G628R, G628Del, G628A, G628V, G628S, G628D,
629 13 N629S, N629K, N629K, N629D, N629I, N629T,
576 14
583 14 I583V,
638 14 K638R, K638E, K638D, K638Del,
560 14 I560fsX, I560M,
626 14 G626V, G626S, G626A,
426 14 P426H,
607 14
627 14 F627L, F627fsX, F627L, F627X, F627L,
647 15
427 15 Y427S, Y427H, Y427C,
605 15 P605L,
592 15 Q592X,
642 15 I642Del, I642V,