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Prevalence, parameters, and pathogenic mechanisms for splice-altering acceptor variants that disrupt the AG exclusion zone


ABSTRACT: Summary Predicting the pathogenicity of acceptor splice-site variants outside the essential AG is challenging, due to high sequence diversity of the extended splice-site region. Critical analysis of 24,445 intronic extended acceptor splice-site variants reported in ClinVar and the Leiden Open Variation Database (LOVD) demonstrates 41.9% of pathogenic variants create an AG dinucleotide between the predicted branchpoint and acceptor (AG-creating variants in the AG exclusion zone), 28.4% result in loss of a pyrimidine at the −3 position, and 15.1% result in loss of one or more pyrimidines in the polypyrimidine tract. Pathogenicity of AG-creating variants was highly influenced by their position. We define a high-risk zone for pathogenicity: > 6 nucleotides downstream of the predicted branchpoint and >5 nucleotides upstream from the acceptor, where 93.1% of pathogenic AG-creating variants arise and where naturally occurring AG dinucleotides are concordantly depleted (5.8% of natural AGs). SpliceAI effectively predicts pathogenicity of AG-creating variants, achieving 95% sensitivity and 69% specificity. We highlight clinical examples showing contrasting mechanisms for mis-splicing arising from AG variants: (1) cryptic acceptor created; (2) splicing silencer created: an introduced AG silences the acceptor, resulting in exon skipping, intron retention, and/or use of an alternative existing cryptic acceptor; and (3) splicing silencer disrupted: loss of a deep intronic AG activates inclusion of a pseudo-exon. In conclusion, we establish AG-creating variants as a common class of pathogenic extended acceptor variant and outline factors conferring critical risk for mis-splicing for AG-creating variants in the AG exclusion zone, between the branchpoint and acceptor.

SUBMITTER: Bryen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9284458 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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