KCNH2 Variant E229K Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 E229K is 10%. We are unaware of any observations of this variant in individuals. E229K is not present in gnomAD. E229K 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 0 individuals with LQT2 and 10 unaffected individuals.These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for KCNQ1 E229K around 10% (0/10).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-1.264 0.498 -1 0.496 13
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 10 0 -
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.

E229K has 31 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
229 0 E229X,
228 4 A228P, A228T, A228V, A228X,
230 4 E230D, E230D,
227 5
231 5
226 7
232 7 R232P, R232C,
225 8
233 8 A233S,
224 8
234 8 L234Del,
223 9
235 9
222 10 V222L, V222L,
236 10 G236V,
221 11
237 11
220 11
238 11 G238D, G238R, G238S,
219 12 D219V,
239 12 S239P, S239X,
218 13
240 13 P240L,
217 13
241 13 P241L, P241S, P241fsX,
216 14 T216A,
242 14 R242X, R242C,
215 14 V215G, V215X,
243 14 S243R, S243R, S243X, S243R,
214 15 E214X,
244 15 A244E, A244G,