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. 2022 Sep 30;12(10):1613. doi: 10.3390/jpm12101613

Table 1.

Summary of clinical, biochemical, and genetic data of the six patients who turned out as positive at NGS for a variant of uncertain significance (VUS), likely pathogenic or pathogenic. All the variants were inherited in heterozygosity.

Patient Gender Age at the Hyperglycemia BG (mg/dL) HbA1c at First Observation Phenotype Therapy Family History Gene Nucleotide Change Amino Acid Segregation Allele Frequency (gnomAD) PolyPhen-2 SIFT ClinVar Classification Literature Reports
1 M 18 110–170
6–6.5%
- None Mother and grandmother on OHA WFS1 c.124C > T p.Arg42Ter Mother 0.00009 Pathogenic Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic [15]
2 M 10 300
>9%
Congenital cataract Insulin 0.8 IU/kg/day Mother with mild/moderate hyperglycemia WFS1 c.1153G > A p.Glu385Lys Mother 0.00057 VUS VUS/Likely benign [16]
3 F 12 >400
16.8%
- Metformin Father with DM on insulin and metformin; sister on insulin WFS1
BLK
c.1249T > G
c.211G > A
p.Arg42Ter
p.Ala71Thr
Father, sister
Father
0.01485 VUS benign VUS Benign/Likely benign [17]
4 M 400
8.9%
- Sulfonylurea Father with DM on insulin KCNJ11 c.685G > A p.Glu229Lys Father - Likely pathogenic Pathogenic/Likely risk allele [18]
5 M 15 436
9.1%
- Insulin Brother and sister with diabetes; three sisters on OHA; mother with T2D INS c.187 + 2T > C Intron variant Mother, 2 brothers, and 4 sisters - Pathogenic Pathogenic [19]
6 M 13 491
8.6%
Normal abdomen US Insulin 0.66 IU/kg/day Father and grandmother with T2D HNF1B c.704G > A p.Arg235Gln Father and grandmother - Pathogenic Likely pathogenic/VUS [20]

BG: blood glucose, HbA1c: glycated hemoglobin, T2D: type 2 diabetes, OHA: oral hypoglycemic agent.