Table 5

- Variants characteristics detected in 12 children with 2 variants: a disease-causing variant plus a VUS or a variant with conflicting pathogenicity.

Pt’s IDFirst variant (Disease causing)Variant effect / ClassificationSecond variant :(Variant effect/ classification (VUS/ conflicting)SIFT Score for the VUS *Predictions of functional effect with SIFTScore after NGS
8#c.4092-4093delGT (p.Ser1365CysfsTer12)Frameshift/ likely pathogenicc.2426G>A (p.Gly809Asp): missense/VUS0.2Tolerated3
10c.3443T>C (p.Ileu1148Thr)Missense/ pathogenicc.2002A>G (p.Met668Val): missense/ conflicting (VUS/Likely pathogenic)0.04Affect protein function8
18c.3547-3548delGC (p.Ala1183TyrfsTer2)Frameshift/ pathogenicc.2715G>C (p.Glu905Asp): missense/VUS0.04Affect protein function9
24c.4114C>T (p.Gln1372Ter)Stop-gain/ pathogenicc.623C>T (p.Ala208Val) missense/VUS0.4Tolerated5
34c.2297C>G (p.Thr766Arg)Missense/ pathogenicc.2897T>G (p.Val966Gly): missense/VUS0.06Affect protein function6
35c.1630C>T (p.Gln544Ter)Stop-gain/ pathogenicc.2576-44G>T: Intronic variant/VUS0.05Affect protein function5
36c.2507G>A (p.Gly836Glu)Missense/ likely pathogenicc.3892G>A (p.Val1298Ile): missense/ VUS0.03Affect protein function4
37c.915T>A (p.Cys305Ter)Stop-gain/ pathogenicc.347T>C (p.Ile116Thr): missense/ Conflicting (VUS/Likely pathogenic)0.03Affect protein function8
38c.3694A>C (p.Thr1232Pro)Missense/ likely pathogenicc.352G>A (p.Asp118Asn): missense/ conflicting (VUS/Likely benign)0.04Affect protein function4
39c.3547-3548delGC (P.Ala1183TyrfsTer2)Frameshift/ pathogenicc.1318A>G (p.Ser440Gly): missense/ VUS0.02Affect protein function6
40c.2827G>A (p.Gly943Ser)Missense/ pathogenicc.1616C>T (p.Pro539Leu): missesnse/ conflicting (VUS/Likely pathogenic)0.02Affect protein function6
41c.2807T>A (p.Leu936Ter)Stop-gain/ pathogenicc.4125-1G>A (Splice acceptor variant)/ VUS0.04Affect protein function7

Pt’ ID: Patient’s identification, NGS: next-generation sequencing

  • * Scores less than 0.05 are considered deleterious.

  • # This patient (ID 8) has additional heterozygous variant (13:52536088, rs747432408, c.1870-39T>G, intronic variant, has not been reported before and found in low penetrance in ExAC).