SCN5A Variant R481Q Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A R481Q around 3% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 2%. SCN5A R481Q was found in a total of 5 carriers in 0 papers and/or in gnomAD: 0 had Brugada syndrome, 0 had LQTS. R481Q is present in 5 alleles in gnomAD. R481Q has been functionally characterized in 0 papers. This residue is located in a Non_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 (0 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 R481Q around 3% (0/15) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 2% (0/15).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
-1.82 0.007 0.82 0.241 2 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
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 5 5 0 0 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 15 15 0 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.

R481Q 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
466 15 L466F,
467 14
468 14 P468L,
469 13 V469I,
470 13 N470K,
471 12
472 11
473 11 E473X,
474 10 R474K, R474G,
475 9 R475S, R475K,
476 8
477 8 c.1428_1431delCAAG,
478 7
479 5
480 4 K480N,
481 0 R481Q, R481W,
482 4 M482I,
483 5
484 7
485 8
486 8 T486A, T486S,
487 9
488 10
489 11
490 11 G490A, G490E,
491 12 E491G,
492 13
493 13 R493K,
494 14
495 14
496 15 K496M, K496N,