SCN5A Variant R988Q Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A R988Q around 1% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 9%. SCN5A R988Q was found in a total of 14 carriers in 1 papers and/or in gnomAD: 1 had Brugada syndrome, 0 had LQTS. R988Q is present in 13 alleles in gnomAD. R988Q has been functionally characterized in 1 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 (1 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 R988Q around 1% (0/24) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 9% (2/24).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
-0.79 0.001 0.09 0.371 9 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
28341781 2017 1 0 1 0
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 14 13 0 1 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 15 14 0 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.

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)
28341781 2017

R988Q 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
973 15
974 14 K974D,
975 14 R975W, R975Q,
976 13
977 13
978 12
979 11 D979H,
980 11
981 10 C981F,
982 9 C982R,
983 8 G983D,
984 8
985 7
986 5 R986Q, R986W, R986L,
987 4
988 0 R988W, R988Q,
989 4
990 5
991 7 K991E, K991T,
992 8
993 8 A993S, A993T,
994 9 A994V, A994T,
995 10 L995F,
996 11 A996T,
997 11 A997T, A997S, A997D,
998 12
999 13 G999D,
1000 13 Q1000X, Q1000L, p.Gln1000del,
1001 14
1002 14 c.3005-3012delCCAGCTGG, P1002S,
1003 15