Research Article

Novel Synonymous and Deep Intronic Variants Causing Primary and Secondary Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency

Table 2

Sequence and in silico prediction scores for splice sites created by the variants and the activated splice sites.

PositionSequenceSSF (0-100)MaxEnt (0-16)NNSPLICE (0-1)GeneSplicer (0-21)SpliceAI (0-1)

PDHX c.1023+2267A>GWTAAG/ATAATAGATT0000NA
Variant (DS)AAG/GTAATAGATT81,978,490,933,72Δ0,99
PDHX c.1023+2302A>GWTCCC/ATAAGTCTTC0000NA
Variant (DS)CCC/GTAAGTCTTC77,779,090,980Δ0,94
PDHX c.1023+2191Activated ASTTTTGAGCAG/CAG05,9100,8NA
TPK1 c.185+15054G>AWTTCTTTCTTGG/GTA0000NA
Variant (AS)TCTTTCTTAG/GTA88,4612,031,012,65Δ0,99
TPK1 c.185+15183Activated DSGAG/GTGAAGACCA75,414,4101,38NA

Abbreviations: AS = acceptor site; DS = donor site; NA = not applicable; SSF = SpliceSiteFinder-like; WT = wild type. The nucleotides changed by the variants are underlined. Reference sequences: RefSeq NM_003477.3 for PDHX and NM_022445.3 for TPK1.