SCN5A Variant R965C Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A R965C around 5% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 27%. SCN5A R965C was found in a total of 24 carriers in 11 papers and/or in gnomAD: 7 had Brugada syndrome, 1 had LQTS. R965C is present in 16 alleles in gnomAD. R965C has been functionally characterized in 12 papers. This residue is located in a Mild_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 R965C around 5% (1/34) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 27% (9/34).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
-7.82 1 -4.59 0.944 22 3
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
19272188 2009 1 0 1 0
11076825 2000 2 0 2 0
11901046 2002 1 0 1 0
23293604 2012 1 0 1 0
23321620 2013 1 0 1 0
23631430 2013 1 1 0 0
24631775 2014 1 0 0 1 SD
20129283 2010 1 0 1 0
20129283 2010 1 0 1 0
20129283 2010 1 0 1 0
30059973 2018 2 2 0 0
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 24 16 1 7 -
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)
23321620 2013
23631430 2013
24524602 2013
24631775 2014
20129283 2010
20129283 2010
20129283 2010
30059973 2018
19272188 2009 HEK 79 0 -10
11076825 2000
11901046 2002
23293604 2012

R965C 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
950 15 P950X,
951 14 c.2850delT, D951X,
952 14 E952K,
953 13 D953E, D953Y,
954 13 R954G,
955 12 p.E955DfsX74,
956 11 M956I, M956T,
957 11
958 10
959 9 L959P,
960 8 Q960K,
961 8
962 7
963 5
964 4 A964G,
965 0 R965C, R965L, R965H,
966 4
967 5 Q967R,
968 7
969 8 G969C, G969S,
970 8
971 9 R971C, R971H,
972 10 c.2914_2923delTTTGTCAAGC,
973 11
974 11 K974D,
975 12 R975Q, R975W,
976 13
977 13
978 14
979 14 D979H,
980 15