Task 5: Mapping point mutations

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Task description

A detailed task description can be found here: Mapping point mutations

SNP databases

HGMD

  • HGMD
  • Searched for PAH
  • 429 Missense/Nonsense mutations known by HGMD Professional

There are several mutation types known for PAH:

  • Missense/nonsense
  • Splicing
  • Regulatory
  • Small deletions
  • Small insertions
  • Small indels
  • Gross deletions
  • Gross insertions/duplications
  • Complex rearrangements

One additional category of mutation is known, but is not recorded for PAH

  • Repeat variations

Reference Sequence

The reference sequence is given by the accession number NM_000277.1, whose entry contains the following amino acid sequence:

MSTAVLENPGLGRKLSDFGQETSYIEDNCNQNGAISLIFSLKEEVGALAKVLRLFEEN DVNLTHIESRPSRLKKDEYEFFTHLDKRSLPALTNIIKILRHDI GATVHELSRDKKKDTVPWFPRTIQELDRFANQILSYGAELDADHPGFKDPVYRARRKQ FADIAYNYRHGQPIPRVEYMEEEKKTWGTVFKTLKSLYKTHACYEYNHIFPLLEKYCG FHEDNIPQLEDVSQFLQTCTGFRLRPVAGLLSSRDFLGGLAFRVFHCTQYIRHGSKPM YTPEPDICHELLGHVPLFSDRSFAQFSQEIGLASLGAPDEYIEKLATIYWFTVEFGLC KQGDSIKAYGAGLLSSFGELQYCLSEKPKLLPLELEKTAIQNYTVTEFQPLYYVAESF NDAKEKVRNFAATIPRPFSVRYDPYTQRIEVLDNTQQLKILADSINSEIGILCSALQK IK

SNPs

SNPdb

Methodology

Retrieving Data
Figure 1: Shows the query and result for our silent mutation search

We searched in dbSNP for silent mutations in coding regions. This means we only considered those SNPs which alter the triplet but not the amino acid.

To do so we used the Entrez interface of NCBI which is accessible under this URL:

  •  ://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=snp

The advantage of this Entrez interface is that we can construct arbitrary complex queries to restrict our result set.

We constructed the following query to search for SNPs which are considered silent in the coding regions of the human PAH gene (see figure 1):

  • "synonymous-codon"[Function_Class] AND PAH[GENE] AND "human"[ORGN] AND "snp"[SNP_CLASS]

Results of this query can be accessed directly via the following URL:

We decided to download the results as FlatFile. This seemed to be the most simple format to process and contains almost all information we need.

Processing Data

Results

We could find the following silent mutations in dbSNP:

Identifier AA-Position Reference Triplet Mutated Triplet Reference Allele Mutated Allele Frame Reference Residue Mutated Residue
rs117308669 65 GAA GAG A G 3 E E
rs75065106 257 CTG TTG C T 1 L L
rs62651567 322 ACA ACG A G 3 T T
rs62508648 366 CTG CTA G A 3 L L
rs61747292 320 CTC CTT C T 3 L L
rs59326968 425 AAT AAC T C 3 N N
rs17852374 35 TCA TCG A G 3 S S
rs1801152 413 TAC TAT C T 3 Y Y
rs1801151 399 AGG CGG A C 1 R R
rs1801150 398 GTA GTT A T 3 V V
rs1801147 202 TGC TGT C T 3 C C
rs1801146 136 AGC AGT C T 3 S S
rs1801145 9 GGC GGG C G 3 G G
rs1126758 231 CAG CAG A G 3 Q Q
rs1042503 244 GTG GTA G A 3 V V
rs772897 384 CTG CTC G C 3 L L

Comparing the annotation of HGMD and SNPdb

Alignment of the reference sequences

We decided to use the sequence of PAH of Uniprot (see UniProt).

  • MSTAVLENPGLGRKLSDFGQETSYIEDNCNQNGAISLIFSLKEEVGALAKVLRLFEENDV
    NLTHIESRPSRLKKDEYEFFTHLDKRSLPALTNIIKILRHDIGATVHELSRDKKKDTVPW
    FPRTIQELDRFANQILSYGAELDADHPGFKDPVYRARRKQFADIAYNYRHGQPIPRVEYM
    EEEKKTWGTVFKTLKSLYKTHACYEYNHIFPLLEKYCGFHEDNIPQLEDVSQFLQTCTGF
    RLRPVAGLLSSRDFLGGLAFRVFHCTQYIRHGSKPMYTPEPDICHELLGHVPLFSDRSFA
    QFSQEIGLASLGAPDEYIEKLATIYWFTVEFGLCKQGDSIKAYGAGLLSSFGELQYCLSE
    KPKLLPLELEKTAIQNYTVTEFQPLYYVAESFNDAKEKVRNFAATIPRPFSVRYDPYTQR
    IEVLDNTQQLKILADSINSEIGILCSALQKIK

Alignment with the reference sequence used in HGMD

The resulting alignment shows a 100% identity without any gaps. Therefore it is a "self-alignment".

Alignment with the reference sequence used in SNPdb

Mapping

Discussion