Research Article

Splicing Analysis of MYO5B Noncanonical Variants in Patients with Low Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Cholestasis

Table 2

In silico and functional analysis for MYO5B intronic and synonymous variants.

VariantsLocationHuman splicing finderSplice AI (score)varSEAK (class)MutationTasterMaxEntScanMinigene splicing assayBlood RNA analysisAllele frequency in gnomAD (hom/het/total)Original classificationReclassification

c.1669-35A>CIntron 13Alteration of the WT branch point may affect splicingAcceptor loss (0.14)No splicing effect (1)No abrogation of potential splice sites6.33⇒6.33Inserting 96 nt of intron 13/normal splicing (~17%)NAVUS (PM2_P+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PP4+PS3)

c.455+8T>CIntron 4No significant impact on splicing signalsNo splicing effect (0)No splicing effect (1)Donor increased9.22⇒9.22No splicing effectNA0/71/280946VUS (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP3+PP4)Likely benign (PM3_P+PP4++BS3)

c.2415-6C>GIntron 19Alteration of the WT acceptor site, most probably affecting splicingNo splicing effect (0)Likely no splicing effect (2)Acceptor gained10.21⇒6.81 (-33.3%)No splicing effectNA0/169/279700VUS (PM2_P+PP3)Likely benign (PP3+BS3)

c.613-11G>AIntron 5Alteration of the WT acceptor site, most probably affecting splicingAcceptor loss (0.84)
Acceptor gain (0.99)
Use of de novo splice site 9 nt upstream of 3 splice site and loss of function for authentic splice site (5)Donor increased
Donor gained
9.06⇒3.19 (-64.8%)Inserting 9 nt of intron 5Inserting 9 nt of intron 5VUS (PM2_P+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PP3+PP4+PS3)

c.4221G>A/p.(=)Exon 31Alteration of the WT donor site, most probably affecting splicingDonor loss (0.32)Loss of function for authentic splice site, exon skipping (5)Alteration within used splice site, likely to disturb normal splicing6.29⇒1.46 (-76.8%)Exon 31 skipping/normal splicing (~30%)NAVUS (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4+PS3)

c.4852+11A>GIntron 36No significant impact on splicing signalsNo splicing effect (0)No splicing effect (1)No abrogation of potential splice sites8.89⇒8.89No splicing effectNAVUS (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP4)Likely benign (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP4+BS3)

c.2090+3A>TIntron 17Alteration of the WT donor site, most probably affecting splicingDonor loss (0.85)Loss of function for authentic splice site, strong decrease of score for authentic splice site, exon skipping (5)Donor lost8.63⇒0.49 (-94.3%)Inserting 185 nt of intron 17NAVUS (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP3+PP4+PS3)

c.1322+5G>AIntron 10Alteration of the WT donor site, most probably affecting splicingDonor loss (0.28)Loss of function for authentic splice site, strong decrease of score for authentic splice site, exon skipping (5)No abrogation of potential splice sites6.03⇒-0.42 (-107%)134 nt deletion of exon10/normal splicing (~20%)NAVUS (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4+PS3)

c.2414+5G>TIntron 19Alteration of the WT donor site, most probably affecting splicingDonor loss (0.67)
Donor gain (0.42)
Strong decrease of score for authentic splice site, use of a cryptic site 27 nt upstream of 5 splice site (5)No abrogation of potential splice sites9.60⇒4.28 (-55.4%)71 nt and 27 nt deletions of exon 19, respectivelyNAVUS (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4+PS3)

c.2349A>G/p.(=)Exon 19Activation of a cryptic donor site, potential alteration of splicingDonor loss (0.09)
Donor gain (0.25)
No splicing effect (1)No abrogation of potential splice sites9.60⇒9.6071 nt deletion of exon 19/normal splicing (~35%)NA0/1/249462VUS (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PM3+PP3+PP4+PS3)

c.3045+3A>TIntron 22Alteration of the WT donor site, most probably affecting splicingDonor loss (0.52)Loss of function for authentic splice site, strong decrease of score for authentic splice site, exon skipping (5)Donor lost9.55⇒5.42 (-43.2%)125 nt and 4 nt deletion of exon 22, respectively/normal splicing (~10%)NAVUS (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP3+PP4)Likely pathogenic (PM2_P+PM3_P+PP3+PP4+PS3)

Abbreviations: NA, not applicable; —, not reported; nt, nucleotides; VUS, Variant of uncertain significance; PM2_P, PM2_Supporting; PM3_P, PM3_Supporting. PM2: absent from controls (or at extremely low frequency if recessive) in Exome Sequencing Project; PM3: for recessive disorders, detected in trans with a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant; PP3: multiple lines of computational evidence support a deleterious effect on the gene or gene product (conservation, evolutionary, splicing impact, etc.); PP4: patient’s phenotype or family history is highly specific for a disease with a single genetic etiology; PS3: well-established in vitro or in vivo functional studies supportive of a damaging effect on the gene or gene product; BS3: well-established in vitro or in vivo functional studies show no damaging effect on protein function or splicing. The number of homozygotes/heterozygotes/total in population. Variants in boldface indicate novel.