ACMG Variant Pathogenicity Statement Example
Description:
The Pathogenicity Statement data below adds instructive annotations to this Simple Test Fixtures Example from ClinGen’s “ClinVar-GKS” implementation of the Variant Pathogenicity Statement (ACMG 2015) Profile.
The annotations are intended to help readers better understand the structure, semantics, and utility of VA-Spec models.
The example itself covers a subset of data from the ClinVar SCV000778434.1 record - which reports that “the KCNQ4 variant NM_004700.4:c.803CCT[1] is pathogenic for Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 2A”.
Note that the data below omits a full representation of the
CategoricalVariationthat is the subject of the Statement - as this is the remit of the CatVRS specification.
Data:
SCV000778434.1:
id: SCV000778434.1
type: StatementFormal type in the model is 'Statement', but the data aligns with the "Variant Pathogenicity Statement (ACMG 2015)" Community Profile.
proposition:a Proposition object captures the possible fact assessed by the Statement, using a subject, predicate, object, qualifier (SPOQ) semantic modeling pattern.
id: ex:Proposition001the proposition here is that "NM_004700.4:c.803CCT[1] is causal for AD nonsyndromic hearing loss 2A"
type: VariantPathogenicityProposition
subjectVariant: clinvar/208366'subjectVariant' specializes the VA Core 'subject' attribute, and holds a CatVRS 'Categorical Variant' whose full representation is not shown here.
predicate: isCausalForthe predicate for this Statement profile is fixed at 'isCausalFor'
objectCondition:'objectCondition' specializes the VA Core 'object' attribute.
id: clinvar.trait/939this is a MappableConcept object that represents the Condition, using names/codes from existing code systems
conceptType: Disease
name: Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 2Athe name for the concept as assigned by the data provider
primaryCoding:holds a Coding object, where the concept is defined in the 'code' or 'name' field
code: C2677637the code from the MedGen terminology for AD nonsyndromic hearing loss 2A
system: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/
iris:
- http://identifiers.org/medgen/C2677637
penetranceQualifier:holds a MappableConcept that reports qualifying penetrance information about the object condition (here, that the statement holds for high penetrance AD hearing loss)
primaryCoding:
code: high
system: ga4gh-gks-term:pathogenicity-penetrance-qualifiercode system here is a locally defined placeholder, until we formalize terminological standards for use in the VA-Spec
name: high
direction: supportsan enumerated string that indicates the Statement 'supports' the Proposition as true
strength:holds a MappableConcept reporting that confidence/evidence for this stated support
primaryCoding:
code: definitivethe code here is a term based on language used in the ACMG guidelines, as ACMG does not provide a formal code system for this
system: ACMG Guidelines, 2015
classification:holds a MappableConcept reporting the final ACMG classification of the subject variant to be 'pathogenic'
primaryCoding:
code: pathogenicthe code here is a term based on language in the ACMG guidelines, as ACMG does not provide a formal code system for this
system: ACMG Guidelines, 2015
contributions:a list of Contribution objects, each describing how an agent contributed to the Statement
- type: Contribution
contributor:reports who made this contribution
id: clinvar.submitter/500139
type: Agent
name: ClinVar Staff, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
activityType: evaluatedreports the type of contribution that was made (here an evaluation activity)
date: '2015-08-20'reports when this contribution was performed
- type: Contribution
contributor:
id: clinvar.submitter/500139
type: Agent
name: ClinVar Staff, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
activityType: submitted
date: '2018-06-12'
specifiedBy:holds a Method object describing guidelines followed in generating the knowledge reported in the Statement
type: Method
reportedIn:a document that describes the Method (this is all we are given about this Method in the source data)
type: Document
pmid: 25741868
name: ACMG Guidelines, 2015