ClinVar

Description

The KRAS c.35G>A (p.Gly12Asp) variant was identified at an allelic fraction consistent with somatic origin. This variant has been reported in multiple individuals affected with vascular malformations including numerous individuals with brain arteriovenous malformations (Nikolaev SI et al., PMID: 29298116; Lihua J et al., PMID: 29381910; Al-Olabi et al., PMID: 29461977; Goss JA et al., PMID: 31486960; Schmidt FV et al., PMID: 34114335; Mitchell BJ et al., PMID: 30394973). This variant has been reported in the ClinVar database as a pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant in both a somatic and germline state by multiple submitters (ClinVar ID: 12582) and in numerous cancer cases as a somatic variant in the cancer database COSMIC (COMIC ID: COSV55497369). This variant is only observed on 2/152,128 alleles in the general population (gnomAD v.3.1.2), indicating it is not a common variant. The KRAS c.35G>A (p.Gly12Asp) variant resides within the P-loop region of KRAS that is defined as a critical functional domain (Gelb BD et al., PMID: 29493581). Computational predictors indicate that the variant is damaging, evidence that correlates with impact to KRAS function. In support of this prediction, functional studies show that this variant activates mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1 signaling pathway, leading to the formation of vascular malformation (Cistea IC et al., PMID: 23059812; Fish JE et al., PMID: 32552404; Janardhan HP et al., PMID: 32405640). The KRAS gene is defined by the ClinGen's RASopathies expert panel as a gene that has a low rate of benign missense variation and where pathogenic missense variants are a common mechanism of disease (Gelb BD et al., PMID: 29493581). Based on an internally developed protocol informed by the ACMG/AMP guidelines (Richards S et al., PMID: 25741868) and gene-specific practices from the ClinGen Criteria Specification Registry, the KRAS c.35G>A (p.Gly12Asp) variant is classified as pathogenic.