SCN5A Variant M438L Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A M438L around 2% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 32%. SCN5A M438L was found in a total of 1 carriers in 1 papers and/or in gnomAD: 1 had Brugada syndrome, 0 had LQTS. M438L is not present in gnomAD. M438L has been functionally characterized in 1 papers. This residue is located in a Hotspot region for Brugada syndrome and a Non_Hotspot region for LQTS. In silico predictions, functional data (if available), and location in structure are equivalent to phenotyping 10 individuals for Brugada syndrome (2 diagnosed with Brugada syndrome) and 5 individuals for LQTS (0 with LQTS). These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for SCN5A M438L around 2% (0/11) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 32% (3/11).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
0.45 0 1.5 0.311 42 0
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 BrS/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 LQT3 BrS1 Other Other Disease
29709101 2018 1 0 1 0
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 1 0 0 1 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 15 13 0 2 - -
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.

Functional Data

Peak and late/persistent current are relative to wildtype (100% being no different from wildtype). V0.5 act/inact are the voltages at which half of the maximal current is reached during an activation and inactivation protocol, each is in units of mV and relative to wildtype.
PubMed ID Year Cell Type Peak Current (%WT) V1/2 Act. (mV) V1/2 Inact. (mV) Late/Persistent Current (%WT)
29709101 2018

M438L 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. 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
423 15
424 14 I424M,
425 14 A425T, A425P,
426 13
427 13
428 12 E428K,
429 11 E429K, p.E429del,
430 11 K430E,
431 10
432 9
433 8 R433S, R433H, R433C,
434 8
435 7
436 5
437 4 A437V,
438 0 M438L, M438T,
439 4 E439K, E439V,
440 5
441 7 L441F,
442 8
443 8
444 9 E444fsX14,
445 10 H445D, H445Q, H445Y,
446 11 E446K,
447 11 A447S, c.1339-24G>A, A447G, c.1338+2T>A,
448 12
449 13 Y449C, T449A,
450 13
451 14
452 14 G452D,
453 15 V453M,