KCNH2 Variant G71W Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 G71W is 46%. This variant was found in a total of 3 carriers in 3 papers or gnomAD (version 4), 3 had LQTS. G71W is not present in gnomAD. We have tested the trafficking efficiency of this variant, 0% of WT with a standard error of 18%; 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. G71W 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 3 individuals with LQT2 and 7 unaffected individuals.These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for KCNQ1 G71W around 46% (6/13).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-5.438 1.0 -3 0.857 71
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 1 0 1
26496715 2015 1 0 1
29497013 2018 1 0 1
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 3 0 3 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 10 7 3 -
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.

G71W has 33 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
71 0 G71R, G71R, G71E, G71W,
72 3 P72S, P72Q, P72T, P72R,
74 4 T74fsX, T74M,
70 5 H70R, H70Q, H70Q,
73 5 R73H, R73C, R73G, R73fsX,
99 5 Y99N, Y99S,
97 7
69 8 L69Del, L69P,
98 8
75 8 Q75X,
105 9
67 9
96 9 I96V, I96T,
76 10
68 10 F68V, F68L, F68L, F68L,
103 10
79 11 A79Del, A79fsX, A79T, A79S,
106 11 F106L, F106V, F106L, F106L,
66 11 C66G, C66Y, C66R,
78 11 A78T, A78P,
104 11
100 12 R100Q, R100P, R100G,
77 13 R77S,
65 13 T65P,
107 13 L107P,
102 13 D102V, D102H, D102X,
101 13 K101E,
108 13 C108Y,
52 14 C52W,
80 14 A80P,
54 14 Y54N, Y54X,
95 14 E95K, E95G,
82 14 I82T, I82dup, I82Ins, I82Del,