SCN5A Variant R1739W Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A R1739W around 13% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 8%. SCN5A R1739W was found in a total of 13 carriers in 2 papers and/or in gnomAD: 0 had Brugada syndrome, 2 had LQTS. R1739W is present in 11 alleles in gnomAD. R1739W has been functionally characterized in 2 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 (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 R1739W around 13% (2/23) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 8% (1/23).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
-5.36 1 -2.27 0.846 14 5
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
22360817 2012 1 1 0 0
19716085 2009 1 1 0 0
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 13 11 2 0 -
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)
22360817 2012
19716085 2009

R1739W has 28 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
1727 15
1739 0 R1739Q, R1739W,
1734 12
1737 8 G1737D,
1695 13 Q1695X,
1684 12 W1684R,
1682 9
1741 4 D1741Y, D1741N, D1741E,
1731 8
1728 15 C1728R, C1728Y, C1728W,
1690 14 D1690N, c.5068_5070delGA,
1744 14 S1744I,
1729 12 D1729N,
1227 14
1740 5 G1740R,
1742 8
1735 11
1733 10
1732 8
1736 12
1743 11 G1743R, G1743E,
1730 10 P1730L, P1730H, P1730A,
1679 15
1685 14
1683 8
1738 6 S1738T, S1738F,
1680 11 A1680P, A1680T,
1681 8 c.5040_5042delTTAinsC, Y1681F,