KCNH2 Variant Q738K Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 Q738K is 14%. We are unaware of any observations of this variant in individuals. Q738K is not present in gnomAD. Q738K has not been functionally characterized. This residue is located in a Mild_Hotspot region for LQT2. In silico predictions, functional data (if available), and location in structure are equivalent to observing 1 individuals with LQT2 and 9 unaffected individuals.These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for KCNQ1 Q738K around 14% (1/10).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-3.357 0.057 1 0.65 19
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
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 0 0 0 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 10 9 1 -
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.

Q738K has 38 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
738 0 Q738X,
739 4 H739fsX,
737 5 L737P,
735 6 S735L,
734 6 R734C, R734H,
736 7
740 7 C740W, C740G,
744 7 R744Q, R744G, R744X, R744fsX, R744P,
743 9
730 9
733 9
751 10 L751V,
731 10 H731R,
742 11
741 11 K741R,
802 11
746 12 A746S, A746X,
732 12
745 12 G745X, G745A,
748 12
783 12 S783P,
755 13
729 13
831 13
781 13
727 13
754 13
752 14 R752P, R752W, R752Q,
758 14
747 14
750 14 C750X,
690 14
801 14 K801T,
784 14 R784Q, R784G, R784W,
726 15
782 15 I782fsX, I782N,
749 15
728 15