KCNH2 Variant R252Q Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 R252Q is 3%. This variant was found in a total of 16 carriers in 0 papers or gnomAD (version 4), 0 had LQTS. R252Q is present in 16 alleles in gnomAD. We have tested the trafficking efficiency of this variant, 91% of WT with a standard error of 20%; 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. R252Q has not been functionally characterized. This residue is located in a Non_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 R252Q around 3% (0/26).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-0.958 0.293 3 0.591 1
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: - 16 2 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.

R252Q 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
252 0 R252fsX, R252Q,
251 4 P251A,
253 4
250 5
254 5 H254Q, H254X, H254Q,
249 7
255 7
248 8
256 8
247 8 Q247X, Q247R,
257 8 N257H,
246 9
258 9 P258L,
245 10 P245R,
259 10 D259X, D259N,
244 11 A244G, A244E,
260 11 A260V,
243 11 S243X, S243R, S243R, S243R,
261 11 S261X,
242 12 R242C, R242X,
262 12 G262X, G262fsX,
241 13 P241fsX, P241L, P241S,
263 13
240 13 P240L,
264 13
239 14 S239X, S239P,
265 14
238 14 G238R, G238D, G238S,
266 14 S266G,
237 15
267 15