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Table 2.

Variants assessed as P/LP or VUS/LP in SCD cases with diagnostic structural abnormalities

Sample ID Age Genetic alteration (gene, nucleotide and aminoacidic change) Variant type ACMG ACMG criteria ClinVar Variant literature (PMID) Gene MIM number/cardiac association ClinGen cardiac association HP no. phenotype association/gene pathway from GeneCards Protein
HCM
SCD01 26 n/a / / / / / / / / /
SCD03 22

MYH7 (NM_000257.4):

c.4258C > T; p.Arg1420Trp

missense LP/P

PS4

PM1

PM2

PP3

PM5

P-HCM (1–6) 192600/HCM HCM/definitive

0001645-SCD/

Cytoskeleton remodeling: regulation of actin cytoskeleton

Myosin Heavy Chain 7
SCD14 21 negative / / / / / / / / /
SCD15 22 n/a / / / / / / / / /
SCD16 35 n/a / / / / / / / / /
SCD18 20

KCNH2 (NM_000238.4):

c.1010C > G; p.Thr337Ser

missense VUS/LP

PM2

PP3

PP2

u.s.-LQTS n/a 613695/LQTS

LQTS/SQTS/definitive

BrS/disputed

0001645-SCD/

Cardiac conduction:

phase3-rapid repolarisation

Potassium Voltage-Gated Channel (Subfamily H Member 2)

KCNE1 (NM_000219.6):

c.95G > A; p.Arg32His

missense VUS

PM2

PM5

u.s.-LQTS (7,8) 176261/LQTS LQTS/limited

0001645-SCD/

Cardiac conduction:

phase2-plateau phase;

phase3-rapid repolarisation

Potassium Voltage-Gated Channel (Subfamily E Regulatory Subunit 1)
SCD27 50

FBN1 (NM_000138.4):

c.979A > G; p.Arg327Gly

missense LP/P

PP3

PP2

PS4

PM2

LP-Marfan (9) 134797/Marfan Syndrome Marfan syndrome/ definitive

0001640-Cardiomegaly; 0001635-Congestive heart failure/

ERK Signaling

Fibrillin 1
SCD35 39

SLC4A3 (NM_001326559.2):

c.1318G > T; p.Asp440Tyr

missense VUS/LP

PM2

PP3

n/a n/a 106195/SQT SQTS/moderate

0001645-SCD

0001962-Palpitations/

Transport of inorganic cations/anions and amino acids/oligopeptides

Solute Carrier Family 4 Member 3 (Sodium-independent anion exchanger)

PSEN2 (NM_000447.3):

c.506A > G; p.His169Arg

missense VUS/LP

PM2

PP3

PP2

u.s n/a 600759/DCM DCM/limited

0005110-Atrial fibrillation/

0001279-Syncope

ERK Signaling

Presenilin 2
SCD36 50

SCN10A (NM_001293307.2):

c.916G > C; p.Asp306His

missense VUS/LP

PP3

PM2

n/a n/a 604427/episodic pain/BrS/VT BrS/disputed

0001645-SCD/

Cardiac conduction:

phase0-rapid depolarisation

Sodium Voltage-Gated Channel (Alpha Subunit 10)

KCNMA1 (NM_001161352.2):

c.3457A > C; p.Lys1153Gln

missense VUS/LP

PP3

PP2

PM2

u.s.-epilepsy n/a 600150/seizure n/a

0030680-Abnormality of cardiovascular system morphology/

Ca2 + activated K + channels

Potassium Calcium-Activated Channel (Subfamily M Alpha 1)
SCD37 50

BAG3 (NM_004281.3):

c.67C > T; p.Arg203Trp

missense VUS/LP

PM2

PP3

PM1

u.s-DCM/ CMP n/a 603883/DCM DCM/definitive

0030872-Abnormal cardiac ventricular function/

Cellular responses to stimuli and heat stress

BAG Cochaperone 3
AC
SCD07 20 negative / / / / / / / / /
SCD11 37

RYR2 (NM_001035.3):

c.8779C > T; p.Gln2927Ter

nonsense LP/P

PVS1

PM2

n/a n/a 180902/VA/CPVT

CPVT/definitive

HCM/limited

0001645-SCD/

Cardiac conduction: ion homeostasis

Ryanodine Receptor 2 (Calcium channel on sarcoplasmic reticulum)
SCD12 25 negative / / / / / / / / /
SCD13 14 n/a / / / / / / / / /
SCD17 45 negative / / / / / / / / /
SCD20 50 negative / / / / / / / / /
SCD32 29 DSP (NM_004415.4): c.7000C > T; p.Arg2334Ter Nonsense LP/P

PVS1

PP5

PM2

P-AC u.s.-CMP n/a 125647/AC

AC/definitive

HCM/disputed

0001645-SCD/

Signaling by Rho GTPases;Apoptosis

Desmoplakin
DCM
SCD10 21 Negative / / / / / / / / /

AC arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, ACMG American College of Medical Genetics, BrS Brugada syndrome, CMP cardiomyopathy, CPVT catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias, DCM dilated cardiomyopathy, HCM hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, LP likely pathogenic, LQTS long QT syndrome, n/a not available, P pathogenic, SCD sudden cardiac death, SQTS short QT syndrome, u.s. uncertain_significance on ClinVar, VUS/LP variant with unknown significance/likely pathogenic, PVS1 Very Strong—Null variants (nonsense, frameshift, canonical ± 1 or 2 splice sites, initiation codon, single exon or multiexon deletion) in a gene where loss of function is a known mechanism of disease, PM1 Mutational hot spot and/or critical and well-established functional domain, PM2 Absent from controls or at extremely low frequency in Exome Sequencing Project, 1000 Genomes or ExAC, PM5 Novel missense change at an amino acid residue where a different missense change determined to be pathogenic has been seen before, PP5 Reputable source recently reports variant as pathogenic but the evidence is not available to the laboratory to perform an independent evaluation, PP2 Missense variant in a gene that has a low rate of benign missense variation and where missense variants are a common mechanism of disease, PP3 Multiple lines of computational evidence support a deleterious effect on the gene or gene product

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