KCNH2 Variant G238R Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 G238R is 21%. This variant was found in a total of 1 carriers in 1 papers or gnomAD (version 4), 1 had LQTS. G238R is not present in gnomAD. We have tested the trafficking efficiency of this variant, 118% of WT with a standard error of 37%; 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. G238R 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 1 individuals with LQT2 and 9 unaffected individuals.These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for KCNQ1 G238R around 21% (2/11).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-0.72 0.061 -1 0.281 58
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
24667783 2015 1 0 1
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 1 0 1 -
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.

G238R 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
238 0 G238R, G238D, G238S,
237 4
239 4 S239X, S239P,
236 5 G236V,
240 5 P240L,
235 7
241 7 P241fsX, P241L, P241S,
234 8 L234Del,
242 8 R242C, R242X,
233 8 A233S,
243 8 S243X, S243R, S243R, S243R,
232 9 R232C, R232P,
244 9 A244G, A244E,
231 10
245 10 P245R,
230 11 E230D, E230D,
246 11
229 11 E229X,
247 11 Q247X, Q247R,
228 12 A228T, A228V, A228X, A228P,
248 12
227 13
249 13
226 13
250 13
225 14
251 14 P251A,
224 14
252 14 R252fsX, R252Q,
223 15
253 15