Table 2 Pathogenicity prediction at protein level of all variants by several in silico tools.

From: Functional analysis of new human Bardet-Biedl syndrome loci specific variants in the zebrafish model

GENE

VARIANT

PolyPhen-2

SIFT

Pmut

Mutation Taster

SCORE

BBS1

p.(Trp23*)

Pathological

p.(Val366Asp)

Possibly damaging

Damaging

Pathological

Disease causing

4/4

p.(His504Hisfs*48)

Pathological

BBS5

p.(Arg138Cys)

Probably damaging

Damaging

Pathological

Disease causing

4/4

p.(Phe180Phefs*6)

Pathological

p.(Asn184Ser)

Probably damaging

Damaging

Neutral

Disease causing

3/4

BBS6

p.(Gly411Ala)

Probably damaging

Damaging

Neutral

Disease causing

3/4

  1. Nonsense and frameshift variants were considered directly as pathological/damaging. Reference sequences used for predictions (Swiss-Prot/Ensembl): Q8NFJ9/ENSP00000317469 for BBS1, Q8N3I7/ENSP00000295240 for BBS5 and Q9NPJ1/ENSP00000246062 for BBS6.