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EGFR c.2369C>T, p.(Thr790Met)

NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met) Missense · exon 20 View identifiers
Classification
Likely pathogenic

Variant description:

No variant summary was recorded for this case.

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Likely pathogenic.A likely pathogenic classification under the recorded framework.

In plain language

Gene-level background from the recorded interpretation.

About EGFR

The EGFR gene encodes the epidermal growth factor receptor, a cell-surface protein that binds growth factors of the EGF family and, upon activation, dimerizes and triggers signaling pathways that drive cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation. EGFR is an oncogene: normally expressed at low levels in adult tissues, it becomes hyperactivated through mutation or gene amplification in many cancer types, including lung, brain, colorectal, and head and neck cancers. In non-small cell lung cancer, such activation can make tumors responsive to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor drugs, although resistance can develop during treatment. EGFR has also been implicated in the excessive inflammatory response (cytokine storm) associated with severe COVID-19.

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01The reasoning

How it was classified

The recorded framework is Not recorded. The criteria and strengths shown below come from the saved assessment; this page does not recalculate the classification.

Recorded applied criteria

The applied criteria and their strengths are shown as assessed under the stated framework.

Pathogenic evidence criteria: 3 Benign evidence criteria: 0
Pathogenic criteria applied · 3
PS3Strong
PS3 · strong

Met at strong strength: engineered cell and biochemical assays show T790M sustains kinase signaling and markedly reduces gefitinib/erlotinib sensitivity.

PM1Moderate
PM1 · moderate

Met at moderate: Thr790 is the EGFR kinase gatekeeper residue in the catalytic cleft and a statistically significant mutational hotspot.

PM2Supporting
PM2 · supporting

Met at supporting: gnomAD v4.1 frequency 0.0000099 (16/1,614,100 alleles) with zero homozygotes, below the 0.1% rarity threshold.

Benign criteria applied · 0

No benign criterion marked as applied in the recorded assessment.

Recorded classification: Likely pathogenic

No EGFR VCEP/CSPEC framework was available, so generic ACMG/AMP 2015 rules applied: PS3 strong, PM1 moderate and PM2 supporting were met, and one Strong plus one Moderate meets the Likely Pathogenic rule.

02The sources

Evidence at a glance

Evidence summaries and captured source records, where available. Missing entries should not be interpreted as negative findings.

gnomAD v4.1
gnomAD v2.1
Population frequency
16 / 1,614,100 alleles

gnomAD v4.1: 16 / 1,614,100 alleles. Recorded AF 9.91264e-06. Recorded homozygote count 0.

gnomAD v2.1

This variant is present in gnomAD v2.1 (AF= 3.53529e-05; MAF= 0.00354%, 10/282862 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the African/African American population (AF= 0.000160192; MAF= 0.01602%, 4/24970 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 4.078e-05.

gnomAD-Canada

Not available in gnomAD-Canada v1.0.

No screenshot for this evidence
REVEL score
0.529 recorded score

Recorded REVEL score: 0.529. Refer to the recorded PP3/BP4 rationale for interpretation.

No listed criterion applied
ClinVar submissions
10 reported laboratory submissions

5 Likely pathogenic · 3 Pathogenic · 1 drug response · 1 likely pathogenic.

Context only ClinVar ↗
Functional evidence
Statement recorded

OncoKB identified variant-specific curated literature and context relevant to functional review; biological-effect context: Gain-of-function; curated oncogenicity label: Oncogenic.

COSMIC
Cancer Hotspots
Somatic evidence
472 recorded samples

This variant has previously been reported in somatic cancers (COSMIC; COSV51765492, n = 472 times).

Cancer Hotspots

This variant lies in a statistically significant hotspot.

For specialists

Technical detail

ACMG/AMP criteria under Not recorded, with the data and sources behind each one.

28 criteria with recorded statuses: 3 met · 7 not met · 14 not assessed · 4 not applicable. Open any row for the full reasoning, the rule and the evidence behind it.

Met Not met Not assessed Not applicable

An EGFR-specific VCEP/ClinGen framework was not present in the case bundle, so generic ACMG/AMP functional-evidence rules were applied.

PS3 is met at strong strength because independent biochemical, cellular, engineered-construct, and tumor-derived studies with relevant controls consistently demonstrate an altered/damaging T790M functional phenotype.

BS3 is not assessed because no benign functional assay result is available.

The variant is missense (p.(Thr790Met)); the generic REVEL-only computational path is therefore applicable.

REVEL 0.529 lies in the defined gray zone, so neither PP3 nor BP4 is met.

Met · 3

PS3 StrongMet at strong strength: engineered cell and biochemical assays show T790M sustains kinase signaling and markedly reduces gefitinib/erlotinib sensitivity. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

Multiple independent, well-controlled functional studies directly evaluate EGFR T790M, corresponding to NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T. Patient-derived tumor sequencing and an independent PCR-RFLP assay linked the variant to acquired resistance, while engineered EGFR constructs, phospho-EGFR and total-EGFR controls, inhibitor-response assays, and NSCLC cell-line viability assays demonstrated persistent kinase signaling and markedly reduced gefitinib/erlotinib sensitivity. Biochemical and structural assays further showed altered ATP/inhibitor behavior and increased kinase activity in T790M-containing EGFR. The evidence is concordant across molecular, cellular, biochemical, and clinical-resistance models and supports a damaging gain-of-function/resistance effect for this variant.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PS3: well-established functional studies supportive of a damaging effect. The concordant direct variant assays, appropriate controls, independent assay systems, and reproducibility justify strong strength in this case.
Evidence considered
  • PMID:15728811 directly identified the c.2369C>T/p.T790M alteration in a relapse biopsy and confirmed it by repeat PCR sequencing and cDNA sequencing; transiently transfected EGFR constructs showed persistent phosphorylation and high-level gefitinib resistance, with comparison constructs and inhibitor treatment controls.
  • PMID:15737014 identified c.2369C>T/p.T790M in progressing lesions from three patients, absent from corresponding pretreatment samples, and independently confirmed it with a mutation-specific PCR-RFLP assay. Engineered wild-type, L858R, and exon 19 deletion EGFR constructs were tested with total-EGFR, phospho-EGFR, phosphotyrosine, and actin controls; T790M prevented gefitinib/erlotinib inhibition. H1975 cells containing T790M plus L858R were approximately 100-fold less sensitive to gefitinib than L858R-only H3255 cells.
  • PMID:18227510 evaluated EGFR T790M in biochemical kinase, ATP Michaelis-Menten, inhibitor-binding, and crystallographic assays. It reported restoration of near-wild-type ATP affinity in L858R/T790M, approximately fivefold increased kinase activity for T790M, and preserved binding of reversible inhibitors with altered inhibitor interaction; the extracted paper did not state the exact c.2369C>T nucleotide notation, so it is supportive at the T790M protein level.
  • PMID:34526717 included T790M in in-vitro drug-sensitivity screening of EGFR-mutant cell lines and reported sensitivity to third-generation but not first- or second-generation EGFR TKIs; this independently supports a reproducible functional drug-response effect, although it is not a variant-specific germline assay.
  • No source provided a validated benign functional result for EGFR T790M; absence of benign assay evidence was not used to support PS3.
Still missing
  • No EGFR-specific VCEP/ClinGen specification was available; generic ACMG/AMP functional-evidence calibration was used.
  • The available assays primarily establish oncogenic kinase activity and tyrosine-kinase-inhibitor resistance rather than a germline disease-specific endpoint.
Sources
PM1 ModerateMet at moderate: Thr790 is the EGFR kinase gatekeeper residue in the catalytic cleft and a statistically significant mutational hotspot. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

EGFR p.(Thr790Met) lies at residue 790 in the EGFR tyrosine-kinase catalytic cleft/kinase domain and is independently documented as a statistically significant hotspot. Functional structural and biochemical literature identifies Thr790 as the kinase gatekeeper and shows that the T790M substitution alters ATP affinity and drug response. No gene-specific VCEP domain_tables entry is present, so the generic ACMG/AMP PM1 framework is used.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PM1 supports a variant located in a well-established critical functional domain or hotspot with low benign variation; default strength is moderate when no disease-specific specification assigns another strength.
Evidence considered
  • PMID:15728811 states that T790M changes threonine 790 in the catalytic cleft of the EGFR tyrosine-kinase domain and demonstrates a functional resistance effect.
  • PMID:18227510 characterizes Thr790 as the EGFR kinase gatekeeper and reports altered ATP affinity and kinase activity for T790M in biochemical and structural studies.
  • The hotspot evidence reports that this variant lies in a statistically significant hotspot.
  • vcep_materials.json reports no applicable EGFR CSPEC and an empty domain_tables object; therefore no authoritative gene-specific domain list was available to check.
Still missing
  • No EGFR-specific VCEP framework or authoritative domain_tables entry was available in this case.
  • The case bundle does not provide a formal benign-variation exclusion analysis for the kinase-domain interval.
Sources
PM2 SupportingMet at supporting: gnomAD v4.1 frequency 0.0000099 (16/1,614,100 alleles) with zero homozygotes, below the 0.1% rarity threshold. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

PM2 is met at supporting strength. The variant is present at an extremely low frequency in gnomAD v2.1 (10/282862 alleles; AF 3.53529e-05; group maximum FAF 4.078e-05) and gnomAD v4.1 (16/1614100 alleles; AF 9.91264e-06; group maximum FAF 1.746e-05), with no observed homozygotes. The highest ancestry-specific frequencies remain below 0.1% (0.01602% in gnomAD v2.1 and 0.00534% in gnomAD v4.1), satisfying the generic rarity threshold used for PM2. The gnomAD-Canada result was unavailable/absent because the query timed out, but this does not negate the large gnomAD v2/v4 population evidence.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PM2 rule: supporting evidence when the variant is absent or extremely rare in population databases; under the operating threshold used here, maximum credible allele frequency must be below 0.1%, with ancestry-specific frequencies considered.
Evidence considered
  • gnomAD v2.1 reports 10/282862 alleles, AF 3.53529e-05, group maximum FAF 4.078e-05, highest ancestry AF 0.000160192 (0.01602%), and zero homozygotes.
  • gnomAD v4.1 reports 16/1614100 alleles, AF 9.91264e-06, group maximum FAF 1.746e-05, highest ancestry AF 5.33803e-05 (0.00534%), and zero homozygotes.
  • Both datasets are far below the generic PM2 rarity threshold of 0.1% and show no homozygotes.
  • gnomAD-Canada v1.0 was not available for this variant in the case bundle because the local query timed out; it provides no contrary frequency evidence.
Still missing
  • No EGFR-specific disease-prevalence and penetrance-based maximum credible allele-frequency calculation was available.
  • gnomAD-Canada v1.0 could not be evaluated successfully because the query timed out.
Sources

Not met · 7 · evaluated, threshold not reached

PP3 Not met: REVEL 0.529 falls inside the 0.250-0.750 gray zone, below the threshold supporting a pathogenic computational call. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

EGFR c.2369C>T is a missense variant (p.(Thr790Met)); no EGFR VCEP/CSPEC PP3 rule is available, so the generic missense-only REVEL path applies. REVEL 0.529 is within the 0.250–0.750 gray zone and does not meet PP3.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP fallback: missense variants use REVEL only; PP3 supporting if REVEL >0.750, BP4 supporting if REVEL <0.250; otherwise neither criterion is met.
Evidence considered
  • The case evidence identifies the consequence as missense, p.(Thr790Met), and reports REVEL 0.529.
  • No EGFR CSPEC, VCEP material, or gene-specific PP3/BP4 rule was found in the governing case materials.
  • Generic missense calibration uses REVEL only: PP3 requires a score >0.750 and BP4 requires a score <0.250; this calibrated REVEL framework is published by ClinGen SVI (PMID:36413997). The observed score is in neither actionable range.
  • SpliceAI max delta 0.002 was not used because splice prediction is not an admissible PP3/BP4 mechanism for this missense substitution. BayesDel was not used because no verified published calibration threshold is available in this pipeline.
Sources
revel
PP5 Not met: the exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel submissions are drug-response classifications, not Pathogenic or Likely Pathogenic. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

ClinVar has exact-variant expert-panel submissions from ClinPGx, but both are classified as drug response rather than Pathogenic or Likely pathogenic. The Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic submissions are not expert-panel assertions and cannot trigger PP5.

Rule
Apply PP5 only for an exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel Pathogenic or Likely pathogenic classification.
Evidence considered
  • The exact-variant ClinPGx expert-panel submissions are drug-response assertions for erlotinib efficacy and gefitinib efficacy.
  • The exact-variant Pathogenic and Likely pathogenic ClinVar submissions in the bundle are ordinary laboratory submissions, not expert-panel assertions.
Still missing
  • An exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel Pathogenic or Likely pathogenic assertion would be required.
Sources
BA1 Not met: the highest population frequency is 0.016% in gnomAD v2.1, far below the >1% BA1 threshold. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

BA1 is not met. The highest observed population frequency is 0.000160192 (0.01602%) in gnomAD v2.1 and 0.0000533803 (0.00534%) in gnomAD v4.1, far below the generic BA1 threshold of greater than 1%. No ancestry-specific frequency approaches the BA1 threshold.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP population-frequency rule: BA1 requires a population allele frequency above 1%; evaluate the maximum credible ancestry-specific frequency rather than only the aggregate frequency.
Evidence considered
  • gnomAD v2.1 reports 10/282862 alleles, total AF 3.53529e-05, zero homozygotes, and highest ancestry AF 0.000160192 (African/African American).
  • gnomAD v4.1 reports 16/1614100 alleles, total AF 9.91264e-06, zero homozygotes, and highest ancestry AF 5.33803e-05 (African/African American).
  • Under the generic ACMG/AMP operating thresholds used here, BA1 requires allele frequency greater than 1%; the observed frequencies are substantially lower.
Still missing
  • No EGFR-specific disease-prevalence or penetrance-based maximum credible allele-frequency model was available; the generic threshold was therefore used.
Sources
BS1 Not met: the highest population frequency is 0.016% in gnomAD v2.1, well below the >0.3% BS1 threshold. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

BS1 is not met. The highest observed population frequency is 0.000160192 (0.01602%) in gnomAD v2.1 and 0.0000533803 (0.00534%) in gnomAD v4.1, both below the generic BS1 threshold of greater than 0.3%. The variant is therefore not observed at a frequency too high for the relevant disease context under the available population data.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP population-frequency rule: BS1 requires an allele frequency above 0.3% when the observed frequency is too high for the disease context; assess the highest credible ancestry-specific frequency.
Evidence considered
  • gnomAD v2.1 reports aggregate AF 3.53529e-05, group maximum FAF 4.078e-05, and highest ancestry AF 0.000160192 (African/African American), with zero homozygotes.
  • gnomAD v4.1 reports aggregate AF 9.91264e-06, group maximum FAF 1.746e-05, and highest ancestry AF 5.33803e-05 (African/African American), with zero homozygotes.
  • Under the generic ACMG/AMP operating thresholds used here, BS1 requires allele frequency greater than 0.3%; the observed frequencies are substantially lower.
Still missing
  • No EGFR-specific disease-prevalence, penetrance, inheritance, or maximum credible allele-frequency model was available; the generic threshold was therefore used.
Sources
BS2 Not met: gnomAD reports zero homozygotes, and no unaffected homozygous carriers are documented. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

BS2 is not met. gnomAD v2.1 and gnomAD v4.1 each report zero homozygotes for NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T (p.Thr790Met). There is no evidence in the case bundle of multiple unaffected individuals carrying the variant in the homozygous state or of unaffected adults carrying a variant expected to cause a fully penetrant dominant disorder.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP BS2 rule: supporting benign evidence requires observation in multiple unaffected individuals, including homozygotes for a recessive condition or adults for a fully penetrant dominant condition, as appropriate to the disease model.
Evidence considered
  • gnomAD v2.1 reports homozygotes = 0 overall and zero homozygotes in the highest-frequency African/African American subgroup.
  • gnomAD v4.1 reports homozygotes = 0 overall and zero homozygotes in the highest-frequency African/African American subgroup.
  • No qualifying unaffected homozygote observation is present in the provided case evidence.
Still missing
  • No disease-specific penetrance model or targeted unaffected-control cohort beyond gnomAD was available.
Sources
BP4 Not met: REVEL 0.529 sits in the 0.250-0.750 gray zone, so no computational benign support applies. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

EGFR c.2369C>T is a missense variant (p.(Thr790Met)); no EGFR VCEP/CSPEC BP4 rule is available, so the generic missense-only REVEL path applies. REVEL 0.529 is within the 0.250–0.750 gray zone and does not meet BP4.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP fallback: missense variants use REVEL only; PP3 supporting if REVEL >0.750, BP4 supporting if REVEL <0.250; otherwise neither criterion is met.
Evidence considered
  • The case evidence identifies the consequence as missense, p.(Thr790Met), and reports REVEL 0.529.
  • No EGFR CSPEC, VCEP material, or gene-specific PP3/BP4 rule was found in the governing case materials.
  • Generic missense calibration uses REVEL only: PP3 requires a score >0.750 and BP4 requires a score <0.250; this calibrated REVEL framework is published by ClinGen SVI (PMID:36413997). The observed score is in neither actionable range.
  • SpliceAI max delta 0.002 was not used because splice prediction is not an admissible PP3/BP4 mechanism for this missense substitution. BayesDel was not used because no verified published calibration threshold is available in this pipeline.
Sources
revel
BP6 Not met: no exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel Benign or Likely benign classification exists, only drug-response entries. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel Benign or Likely benign classification is present. The only exact-variant expert-panel assertions are drug-response classifications; non-expert submissions cannot trigger BP6.

Rule
Apply BP6 only for an exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel Benign or Likely benign classification.
Evidence considered
  • The exact-variant ClinPGx expert-panel submissions are drug-response assertions, not Benign or Likely benign classifications.
  • No expert-panel Benign or Likely benign classification is reported for this exact variant.
Still missing
  • An exact-variant ClinVar expert-panel Benign or Likely benign assertion would be required.
Sources

Not assessed · 14 · no assessment recorded

PS1 Not assessed: no record establishes this exact amino-acid change as a pathogenic germline variant for an applicable EGFR disease. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

The variant is EGFR p.(Thr790Met), and the literature documents this exact substitution in somatic drug-resistance and functional contexts. However, the available evidence does not establish the same amino-acid change as a pathogenic germline variant for an applicable EGFR germline disease, and the ClinVar expert-panel record is for drug response rather than a germline disease assertion. The exact-change requirement is therefore not safely met for PS1 in this assessment.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PS1 requires the same amino-acid change as an established pathogenic variant; disease context and pathogenicity must be applicable to the assessed condition.
Evidence considered
  • PMID:15728811 explicitly reports EGFR T790M as an acquired second mutation in recurrent gefitinib-resistant cancer and confirms the c.2369C>T substitution by sequencing and functional assays.
  • PMID:15737014 reports T790M in progressing lesions after EGFR-TKI treatment and shows resistance in biochemical and cell-based assays.
  • ClinVar variation 16613 has an expert-panel drug-response record and additional single-submitter pathogenic/likely pathogenic submissions, but the available record does not provide a validated germline disease-specific pathogenic assertion suitable for PS1 here.
Still missing
  • A validated pathogenic germline EGFR p.(Thr790Met) record or applicable disease-specific assertion is not available in the case evidence.
  • The available exact-variant literature is predominantly somatic oncology and drug-response evidence, not germline disease evidence.
Sources
PS2 Not assessed: no de novo occurrence and no parental testing are documented for this variant. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No proband-level de novo observation is documented in the case-evidence bundle. There is no parental testing, parental genotype, maternity/paternity confirmation, or explicit de novo statement for EGFR NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T (p.Thr790Met). Therefore PS2 cannot be assessed.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PS2: de novo occurrence in a patient with the disease and no family history, with maternity and paternity confirmed; stronger application requires appropriate parental testing and phenotype assessment.
Evidence considered
  • The case-evidence bundle identifies the variant as EGFR NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T (p.Thr790Met), but contains no proband pedigree, parental genotype results, or de novo assessment.
  • The available paper extractions concern somatic/acquired EGFR T790M in lung cancer and do not provide a germline proband-parent de novo observation relevant to PS2.
Still missing
  • Documented proband genotype and phenotype
  • Both biological parents tested for the variant
  • Confirmed maternity and paternity or equivalent family relationships
  • Explicit de novo result with assay details
PS4 Not assessed: no germline case-control comparison or odds ratio shows enrichment in affected individuals versus controls. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

The reviewed evidence documents EGFR T790M in acquired EGFR-TKI resistance, but does not provide a germline case-control comparison or an odds ratio establishing statistically significant enrichment in an affected population versus controls.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PS4 requires statistically increased prevalence of the variant in affected individuals compared with controls.
Evidence considered
  • PMID:15737014 reports T790M in progressing lesions from three treated patients and states that acquired clinical resistance was associated with T790M; it supplies no unaffected-control comparator or germline prevalence estimate.
  • PMID:29151359 states that T790M is detected in 50% or more of EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients after progression on first- or second-generation EGFR-TKIs. This is prevalence in a treatment-selected progression setting, not affected-versus-control enrichment for germline ACMG PS4.
Still missing
  • A phenotype-defined germline case-control or adequately powered cohort study reporting exact-variant counts in affected individuals and ancestry-matched controls is needed.
  • The available reports concern tumors after EGFR-TKI exposure and cannot establish germline disease prevalence enrichment.
Sources
PM3 Not assessed: no affected individual carrying a second established pathogenic EGFR variant in trans is documented. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No applicable EGFR-specific VCEP framework was available, so the generic ACMG/AMP PM3 concept was considered. The available evidence does not document the variant in an affected individual with a second established pathogenic variant in trans, nor does it establish a recessive EGFR disease context. Reports of EGFR p.(T790M) as a germline lung-cancer susceptibility allele and as an acquired somatic resistance mutation do not provide qualifying biallelic phase evidence.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PM3: pathogenic-variant evidence in trans with the evaluated variant in an affected individual, with strength dependent on the number and quality of independent observations; phase and disease inheritance must be established.
Evidence considered
  • The extracted report for PMID:15737014 describes T790M as an acquired mutation in progressing tumors and states that, in patients 1 and 2, T790M was inferred to be on the same EGFR allele as the pre-existing activating mutation; this is somatic cis evidence, not qualifying germline trans evidence for PM3.
  • The extracted report for PMID:15728811 describes T790M in a recurrent gefitinib-resistant tumor and functional assays, without documenting a second pathogenic variant in trans in an affected germline proband.
  • No EGFR-specific VCEP or CSPEC was present in the case bundle; the case therefore used generic ACMG/AMP fallback.
Still missing
  • No affected-proband genotype containing a second pathogenic EGFR variant was provided.
  • No parental testing, haplotyping, or other germline phase evidence establishing trans configuration was provided.
  • The applicable germline disease inheritance model for this EGFR variant was not specified in an authoritative gene-specific framework.
Sources
PM5 Not assessed: no alternate pathogenic amino-acid substitution at EGFR residue 790 was identified for comparison. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

The case evidence does not document an established pathogenic missense variant at EGFR residue 790 that is an alternate amino-acid substitution. The precomputed PM5 candidate summary contains zero same-residue candidates and explicitly states that classic PM5 semantics could not be confirmed safely. The exact T790M literature does not substitute for evidence about an alternate change at the same residue.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PM5 requires a different pathogenic missense change at the same residue; evidence about the assessed substitution itself is insufficient.
Evidence considered
  • The PM5 candidate summary reports zero total candidates and zero same-residue candidates, and instructs that PM5 should not be applied from that artifact alone.
  • The available literature concerns the T790M substitution itself and does not establish an alternate pathogenic missense change at residue 790.
Still missing
  • No validated pathogenic alternate missense variant at residue 790 was identified in the case evidence.
  • A systematic same-residue ClinVar/pathogenicity comparison is not available in the bundle.
Sources
pm5_candidates
PM6 Not assessed: no presumed de novo occurrence without parental testing is documented for this variant. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No presumed de novo occurrence is documented without parental testing. The bundle provides no family history, parental availability or genotype, maternity/paternity information, or clinical basis for a presumed de novo event. Therefore PM6 cannot be assessed.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PM6: presumed de novo occurrence in a patient with the disease and no family history when maternity and paternity are unconfirmed or parental testing is unavailable; this is weaker than PS2 and still requires a documented clinical case context.
Evidence considered
  • The case-evidence bundle contains no parental testing or family-history information for EGFR NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T (p.Thr790Met).
  • The extracted literature describes acquired somatic T790M in tumors, not a presumed germline de novo occurrence.
Still missing
  • Evidence that the variant is absent from available tested parents or that parental testing was unavailable
  • Documented negative family history and relevant phenotype in the proband
  • Maternity/paternity confirmation or other relationship evidence
  • Clinical report supporting presumed de novo status
PP1 Not assessed: no pedigree or genotype data from informative relatives were available to evaluate segregation. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No informative relatives, family pedigree, variant-positive affected relatives, variant-negative unaffected relatives, meioses, or segregation counts are reported. Phenotype consistency across relatives therefore cannot be evaluated, and PP1 cannot be assessed.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PP1: cosegregation with disease in multiple affected family members in a gene known to cause the disease; strength depends on the number and informativeness of meioses and the specificity/consistency of the phenotype.
Evidence considered
  • The case-evidence bundle contains no pedigree, familial testing results, segregation analysis, or meiosis count for this variant.
  • The extracted publications report tumor acquisition and drug resistance, not cosegregation of a germline variant with a phenotype.
Still missing
  • Pedigree with affected and unaffected relatives
  • Genotypes and phenotypes for informative relatives
  • Number of informative meioses and segregation observations
  • Assessment of phenotype specificity and consistency
PP2 Not assessed: no applicable germline EGFR disease is established in which missense variants are a common pathogenic mechanism. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

The available evidence establishes EGFR missense changes as important somatic oncogenic and drug-response events, but it does not establish an applicable germline EGFR disease mechanism in which missense variants are a common pathogenic mechanism while benign missense variation is rare. Therefore PP2 cannot be applied from the available case bundle.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PP2 requires a gene in which missense variants are a common disease mechanism and benign missense variation is uncommon; both gene-level conditions must be established for the relevant disease context.
Evidence considered
  • The case has no applicable EGFR CSPEC/VCEP framework and falls back to generic ACMG.
  • The available EGFR publications describe somatic lung-cancer biology and TKI resistance, which do not by themselves establish the generic germline PP2 gene-level assumptions.
Still missing
  • No applicable EGFR-specific germline framework defining a missense-driven disease mechanism was available.
  • No comprehensive benign missense variation analysis and disease-relevant missense enrichment assessment were provided.
PP4 Not assessed: no individual-level phenotype or pedigree was supplied to judge specificity for a germline EGFR disorder. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No individual-level phenotype, pedigree, or testing context is supplied for this case. The available tumor-treatment evidence does not establish that the presenting phenotype in this case is highly specific for a germline EGFR-related disorder.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP PP4 requires a patient phenotype or family history highly specific for a disease with a single genetic etiology.
Evidence considered
  • The consolidated bundle contains no case-level phenotype or pedigree for the individual being classified.
Still missing
  • Case-level phenotype, age at onset, tumor and germline testing context, and family history are required.
  • Evidence that the documented phenotype is sufficiently specific for an EGFR-related germline condition is required.
BS3 Not assessed: no functional study shows normal activity, and available assays instead report altered kinase activity and inhibitor resistance. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No well-established functional study in the available case evidence demonstrates that EGFR T790M has no damaging effect or normal functional activity. The available functional studies instead report altered kinase activity and inhibitor resistance, which are relevant to PS3 and cannot support BS3.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP BS3: well-established functional studies showing no damaging effect. No qualifying benign functional result was available.
Evidence considered
  • The reviewed functional studies consistently evaluated altered EGFR signaling, kinase activity, or tyrosine-kinase-inhibitor response and did not provide evidence of a normal/benign functional effect for the exact variant.
Still missing
  • A validated assay showing normal EGFR function for the exact variant, with appropriate positive and negative controls and a disease-relevant endpoint, is not available.
BS4 Not assessed: no genotyped relatives were available to test whether the variant fails to segregate with disease. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No affected or unaffected relatives with documented genotype and phenotype are provided. Consequently, there is no reliable evidence that the variant fails to segregate with disease, and BS4 cannot be assessed.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP BS4: lack of segregation in affected members of a family; application requires informative relatives and consideration of phenocopies, reduced age-related penetrance, and phenotype specificity.
Evidence considered
  • The case-evidence bundle provides no family segregation or non-segregation observations for EGFR NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T (p.Thr790Met).
  • The available literature extractions do not report familial non-segregation evidence for this variant.
Still missing
  • Pedigree and disease-status information for relatives
  • Variant testing results in affected relatives
  • Variant testing results in unaffected relatives
  • Consideration of age-related penetrance, phenocopies, and phenotype specificity
BP1 Not assessed: no applicable germline EGFR disease is established as predominantly caused by truncating rather than missense variants. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

The case evidence does not establish that EGFR disease is predominantly caused by truncating or other non-missense variants in an applicable germline disease context. Somatic EGFR T790M oncogenic and drug-resistance observations cannot be used to infer BP1. Accordingly, BP1 is not assessed.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP BP1 requires a gene in which pathogenic variants are predominantly truncating or otherwise non-missense; this gene-level condition must be established for the relevant disease context.
Evidence considered
  • The available framework materials contain no applicable EGFR CSPEC/VCEP specification.
  • The available papers concern somatic EGFR kinase-domain mutations and treatment resistance rather than a validated germline disease variant spectrum.
Still missing
  • No applicable EGFR-specific germline framework or disease-level variant-spectrum analysis was available.
  • No reliable comparison showing predominance of truncating/non-missense pathogenic variants over missense variants was provided.
BP2 Not assessed: no germline observation of this variant in trans or in cis with a pathogenic variant is documented. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

The case evidence does not document a qualifying germline observation of EGFR c.2369C>T in trans with a pathogenic variant or in cis with a pathogenic variant under the applicable dominant/recessive context. The extracted literature reports T790M in somatic tumors and describes cis occurrence with pre-existing activating EGFR mutations during acquired drug resistance; that tumor phase observation is not sufficient to apply BP2 to this germline variant assessment.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP BP2: observation of the evaluated variant in trans with a pathogenic variant for a fully penetrant dominant disorder, or in cis with a pathogenic variant for a recessive disorder, provided the phase, disease context, and pathogenicity of the comparator are established.
Evidence considered
  • The extracted report for PMID:15737014 states that T790M was inferred to be on the same allele as L858R or an exon 19 deletion in tumor material and in the H1975 cell line; this is somatic cis resistance biology and does not establish a qualifying germline BP2 observation.
  • No qualifying germline trans or cis observation with a second established pathogenic variant was found in the consolidated case-evidence bundle.
Still missing
  • No germline genotype or family-based phase result involving c.2369C>T and another pathogenic variant was provided.
  • No evidence establishes that any observed second variant meets the pathogenic-variant requirement for BP2.
  • No authoritative EGFR disease-specific rule defining the relevant BP2 phase context was available.
Sources
BP5 Not assessed: no alternative molecular diagnosis explaining the individual's phenotype was identified. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

No case-level evidence identifies an alternative molecular diagnosis that fully explains the individual's phenotype.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP BP5 requires a variant in a gene for which another molecular basis for disease has been found in the individual.
Evidence considered
  • The consolidated bundle contains no alternate molecular diagnosis or patient-specific phenotype attribution.
Still missing
  • Case-level phenotype and results of testing for alternative molecular diagnoses are required.
Not applicable · 4· recorded as not applicable Show reasons ▾Hide reasons ▴
PVS1 N/ANot applicable: this is a missense change, p.(Thr790Met), so the null-variant premise PVS1 requires does not hold. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

PVS1 (ClinGen SVI PVS1 recommendations, PMC6185798, pvs1_generic_framework) applies only to null variant classes — nonsense, frameshift, canonical ±1/2 splice-consensus, translation-initiation-codon loss, and stop-loss variants — each expected to trigger nonsense-mediated decay or otherwise abolish normal protein function. NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T in EGFR is a missense substitution predicted to produce NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met). As a result, no null-variant mechanism (nonsense-mediated decay, truncation, or canonical splice disruption) is triggered by this variant class, so PVS1's structural prerequisite is not met by this variant class. This determination was made deterministically from the variant's consequence class, prior to LLM adjudication, because no structured VCEP criteria-combination framework governs this case (framework_complete=false); the generic ACMG/AMP 2015 fallback applies.

Rule
deterministic_prefilter: requires_null_variant_class
Evidence considered
  • Deterministic consequence classification: missense (prefetch.json normalized protein consequence)
Sources
pvs1_generic_framework ↗generic_acmg_combination_rules
PM4 N/ANot applicable: this missense change does not alter protein length, which PM4 requires. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

PM4 (Richards et al. 2015, PMID:25741868) applies to protein length changes: in-frame insertions/deletions in a non-repetitive region, or stop-loss variants that extend the protein past the reference stop codon. NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T in EGFR is a missense substitution predicted to produce NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met). As a result, no change in protein length occurs, so there is nothing for this criterion to evaluate, so PM4's structural prerequisite is not met by this variant class. This determination was made deterministically from the variant's consequence class, prior to LLM adjudication, because no structured VCEP criteria-combination framework governs this case (framework_complete=false); the generic ACMG/AMP 2015 fallback applies.

Rule
deterministic_prefilter: requires_stop_loss_or_nonrepeat_indel
Evidence considered
  • Deterministic consequence classification: missense (prefetch.json normalized protein consequence)
Sources
pvs1_generic_framework ↗generic_acmg_combination_rules
BP3 N/ANot applicable: this missense change creates no in-frame length change in a repeat region, which BP3 requires. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

BP3 (Richards et al. 2015, PMID:25741868) applies to in-frame insertions/deletions located in a repetitive region without a known function. NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T in EGFR is a missense substitution predicted to produce NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met). As a result, the variant does not alter protein length within a repeat region, so there is nothing for this criterion to evaluate, so BP3's structural prerequisite is not met by this variant class. This determination was made deterministically from the variant's consequence class, prior to LLM adjudication, because no structured VCEP criteria-combination framework governs this case (framework_complete=false); the generic ACMG/AMP 2015 fallback applies.

Rule
deterministic_prefilter: requires_repeat_region_indel
Evidence considered
  • Deterministic consequence classification: missense (prefetch.json normalized protein consequence)
Sources
pvs1_generic_framework ↗generic_acmg_combination_rules
BP7 N/ANot applicable: the variant is missense and alters the protein sequence, so the silent-variant premise BP7 requires does not hold. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

BP7 (Richards et al. 2015, PMID:25741868) is defined for a synonymous (silent) variant for which splicing prediction algorithms predict no impact to the splice consensus sequence and the nucleotide is not highly conserved. NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T in EGFR is a missense substitution predicted to produce NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met). As a result, the encoded protein sequence is altered, so the criterion's silent-variant premise does not hold regardless of any splicing prediction, so BP7's structural prerequisite is not met by this variant class. This determination was made deterministically from the variant's consequence class, prior to LLM adjudication, because no structured VCEP criteria-combination framework governs this case (framework_complete=false); the generic ACMG/AMP 2015 fallback applies.

Rule
deterministic_prefilter: requires_synonymous
Evidence considered
  • Deterministic consequence classification: missense (prefetch.json normalized protein consequence)
Sources
generic_acmg_combination_rules

Identifiers

Gene
EGFR
Transcript
NM_005228.5
Coding (HGVS c.)
NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T
Protein (HGVS p.)
NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met)
GRCh38
chr7:55181378 C>T
GRCh37
chr7:55249071 C>T
Location and type
Exon 20 · missense
ClinVar
16613
COSMIC
COSV51765492

Gene diagram

Every interpreted variant in EGFR, mapped onto the exon structure of NM_005228.5. Select a row to find it on the plot.

EGFRNM_005228.5
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gnomAD v4.1 16 / 1,614,100 alleles AF 9.91e-06 · 0 homozygotes · FAF 1.75e-05
gnomAD v2.1 10 / 282,862 alleles AF 3.54e-05 · 0 homozygotes · FAF 4.08e-05
gnomAD-Canada v1.0 Allele count data not recorded

By genetic ancestry

gnomAD v4.1

AF 9.9e-06 · 16 / 1,614,100 alleles · 0 hom · FAF 1.7e-05
African/African American4 / 74,934 5.3e-05
Admixed American1 / 60,014 1.7e-05
European (non-Finnish)11 / 1,180,040 9.3e-06
0 alternate alleles recorded in 7 other groups: Remaining individuals, European (Finnish), Amish, East Asian, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Ashkenazi Jewish.

gnomAD v2.1

AF 3.5e-05 · 10 / 282,862 alleles · 0 hom · FAF 4.1e-05
African/African American4 / 24,970 0.00016
European (non-Finnish)5 / 129,164 3.9e-05
Admixed American1 / 35,438 2.8e-05
0 alternate alleles recorded in 5 other groups: Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian, European (Finnish), Remaining individuals, South Asian.

Statements

gnomAD v4.1

This variant is present in gnomAD v4.1 (AF= 9.91264e-06; MAF= 0.00099%, 16/1614100 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the African/African American population (AF= 5.33803e-05; MAF= 0.00534%, 4/74934 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 1.746e-05.

gnomAD v2.1

This variant is present in gnomAD v2.1 (AF= 3.53529e-05; MAF= 0.00354%, 10/282862 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the African/African American population (AF= 0.000160192; MAF= 0.01602%, 4/24970 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 4.078e-05.

gnomAD-Canada

Not available in gnomAD-Canada v1.0.

SpliceAI and Pangolin

SpliceAI acceptor lossat +277 bp
0.000
SpliceAI acceptor gainat -81 bp
0.001
SpliceAI donor lossat -202 bp
0.002
SpliceAI donor gainat +81 bp
0.001
Pangolin splice lossmagnitude shown
-0.002
Pangolin splice gain
0.001

Other predictors

REVEL
0.529
BayesDel
0.184

How the predictions were used

PP3 Not met: REVEL 0.529 falls inside the 0.250-0.750 gray zone, below the threshold supporting a pathogenic computational call. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

EGFR c.2369C>T is a missense variant (p.(Thr790Met)); no EGFR VCEP/CSPEC PP3 rule is available, so the generic missense-only REVEL path applies. REVEL 0.529 is within the 0.250–0.750 gray zone and does not meet PP3.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP fallback: missense variants use REVEL only; PP3 supporting if REVEL >0.750, BP4 supporting if REVEL <0.250; otherwise neither criterion is met.
Evidence considered
  • The case evidence identifies the consequence as missense, p.(Thr790Met), and reports REVEL 0.529.
  • No EGFR CSPEC, VCEP material, or gene-specific PP3/BP4 rule was found in the governing case materials.
  • Generic missense calibration uses REVEL only: PP3 requires a score >0.750 and BP4 requires a score <0.250; this calibrated REVEL framework is published by ClinGen SVI (PMID:36413997). The observed score is in neither actionable range.
  • SpliceAI max delta 0.002 was not used because splice prediction is not an admissible PP3/BP4 mechanism for this missense substitution. BayesDel was not used because no verified published calibration threshold is available in this pipeline.
Sources
revel
BP4 Not met: REVEL 0.529 sits in the 0.250-0.750 gray zone, so no computational benign support applies. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

EGFR c.2369C>T is a missense variant (p.(Thr790Met)); no EGFR VCEP/CSPEC BP4 rule is available, so the generic missense-only REVEL path applies. REVEL 0.529 is within the 0.250–0.750 gray zone and does not meet BP4.

Rule
Generic ACMG/AMP fallback: missense variants use REVEL only; PP3 supporting if REVEL >0.750, BP4 supporting if REVEL <0.250; otherwise neither criterion is met.
Evidence considered
  • The case evidence identifies the consequence as missense, p.(Thr790Met), and reports REVEL 0.529.
  • No EGFR CSPEC, VCEP material, or gene-specific PP3/BP4 rule was found in the governing case materials.
  • Generic missense calibration uses REVEL only: PP3 requires a score >0.750 and BP4 requires a score <0.250; this calibrated REVEL framework is published by ClinGen SVI (PMID:36413997). The observed score is in neither actionable range.
  • SpliceAI max delta 0.002 was not used because splice prediction is not an admissible PP3/BP4 mechanism for this missense substitution. BayesDel was not used because no verified published calibration threshold is available in this pipeline.
Sources
revel
BP7 N/ANot applicable: the variant is missense and alters the protein sequence, so the silent-variant premise BP7 requires does not hold. Details ▾Hide ▴
Reasoning

BP7 (Richards et al. 2015, PMID:25741868) is defined for a synonymous (silent) variant for which splicing prediction algorithms predict no impact to the splice consensus sequence and the nucleotide is not highly conserved. NM_005228.5:c.2369C>T in EGFR is a missense substitution predicted to produce NP_005219.2:p.(Thr790Met). As a result, the encoded protein sequence is altered, so the criterion's silent-variant premise does not hold regardless of any splicing prediction, so BP7's structural prerequisite is not met by this variant class. This determination was made deterministically from the variant's consequence class, prior to LLM adjudication, because no structured VCEP criteria-combination framework governs this case (framework_complete=false); the generic ACMG/AMP 2015 fallback applies.

Rule
deterministic_prefilter: requires_synonymous
Evidence considered
  • Deterministic consequence classification: missense (prefetch.json normalized protein consequence)
Sources
generic_acmg_combination_rules

Statement

In silico

SpliceAI predicts no significant splice impact for this variant (max delta score = 0.00). REVEL score = 0.529. BayesDel score = 0.184053.

7 paper records listed. 5 cited in the classification.

Cited in the classification

  • EGFR mutation and resistance of non-small-cell lung cancer to gefitinib.
    Kobayashi S et al. · 2005 Feb 24
    The paper explicitly identifies the EGFR T790M substitution, corresponding to EGFR c.2369C>T and NP_005219.2:p.(T790M), as an acquired second mutation in a patient's recurrent gefitinib-resistant non-small-cell lung cancer. The mutation was detected in the relapse biopsy and confirmed by subcloning and cDNA sequencing. Introducing T790M into EGFR constructs produced high-level gefitinib resistance.
    → PS3 · strong → PM1 · moderate Names this variant
    PMID 15728811 ↗
    Source detail
    The C-to-T base-pair change is predicted to change threonine to methionine at position 790 (T790M) in the catalytic cleft of the EGFR tyrosine kinase domain.

    Location Results, page 789; functional transfection assays, pages 789-790

    Context Patient relapse-biopsy DNA and cDNA sequencing; EGFR constructs with or without T790M transiently transfected into COS-7 and NIH-3T3 cells, followed by EGFR inhibitor treatment and phosphorylation assessment.

  • Acquired resistance of lung adenocarcinomas to gefitinib or erlotinib is associated with a second mutation in the EGFR kinase domain.
    Pao W et al. · 2005 Mar
    The paper explicitly reports EGFR c.2369C>T (p.(T790M)) in progressing lesions from three patients whose tumors had acquired resistance during gefitinib or erlotinib treatment; the mutation was not detected in corresponding pretreatment samples. In patients 1 and 2, the T790M mutation was inferred to be present in the same EGFR allele as the pre-existing drug-sensitive mutation (L858R or an exon 19 deletion), and the H1975 NSCLC cell line contained T790M and L858R on the same allele. In biochemical assays, EGFR proteins containing T790M were not significantly inhibited by gefitinib or erlotinib, including when T790M was combined with L858R or an exon 19 deletion. H1975 cells containing T790M and L858R were approximately 100-fold less sensitive to gefitinib than H3255 cells containing L858R alone.
    → PS3 · strong Names this variant
    PMID 15737014 ↗
    Source detail
    We show here, through molecular analysis of tumor material from three patients and one NSCLC cell line, as well as additional biochemical studies, that acquired clinical drug resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib is indeed associated with the T790M mutation. Importantly, we find that the T790M mutation confers drug resistance not just to wild-type EGFR but also to mutant EGFRs associated with clinical responsiveness to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors [1,2,3].

    Location Results, “A Secondary Missense Mutation in the EGFR Kinase Domain Detected in Lesions That Progressed while on Treatment with Either Gefitinib or Erlotinib”; Results, “Biochemical Properties of EGFR Mutants”; Discussion

    Context Direct bidirectional sequencing and PCR-RFLP analysis of EGFR exons 18–24 in tumor specimens from six patients; EGFR expression and immunoblotting assays in transiently transfected 293T cells; Calcein AM viability assays in NSCLC cell lines H3255, H1975, and H2030.

  • The T790M mutation in EGFR kinase causes drug resistance by increasing the affinity for ATP.
    The paper studies EGFR T790M and reports that it confers inhibitor resistance by increasing ATP affinity in an activating-mutant background. It characterizes Thr790 as the kinase gatekeeper and provides biochemical and structural evidence for the functional importance of the residue.
    → PS3 · strong → PM1 · moderate Does not name this variant
    PMID 18227510 ↗
    Source detail
    Strikingly, the T790M mutation restores the ATP affinity to near WT levels in the L858R/T790M double mutant (Km[ATP] = 8.4 µM, as compared with Km[ATP] = 148 µM for the L858R mutant). In isolation, the T790M mutation does not significantly affect ATP affinity.

    Location Results, "Increased ATP Affinity of the L858R/T790M Mutant Confers Drug Resistance"; Table 2

    Context In vitro biochemical EGFR kinase assays measuring inhibitor binding, ATP Michaelis-Menten kinetics, and kinase activity, together with X-ray crystallographic analysis of EGFR T790M complexes.

  • Osimertinib in Untreated EGFR-Mutated Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.
    The paper identifies EGFR p.Thr790Met (T790M) as a resistance mutation that is detected in 50% or more of patients whose EGFR-mutated NSCLC progresses during first- or second-generation EGFR-TKI treatment. It reports that osimertinib selectively inhibits EGFR-TKI-sensitizing mutations and EGFR T790M resistance mutations. In the FLAURA trial, patients initially had EGFR exon 19 deletions or L858R mutations; patients in the standard EGFR-TKI group could cross over to osimertinib after progression if post-progression testing showed T790M-positive mutation status.
    → PS3 · strong Names this variant
    PMID 29151359 ↗
    Source detail
    The phase 3 studies of first-generation and second-generation EGFR-TKIs showed a median progression-free survival of 9 to 13 months,3-5,7-10 and the EGFR p.Thr790Met point mutation (EGFR T790M) is detected in 50% or more of the patients who have disease progression.11,12 Osimertinib is an oral, third-generation, irreversible EGFR-TKI that selectively inhibits both EGFR-TKI–sensitizing and EGFR T790M resistance mutations, with lower activity against wild-type EGFR.13,14

    Location Introduction, paragraph 1

    Context Double-blind, phase 3 FLAURA trial of 556 previously untreated patients with EGFR mutation-positive advanced NSCLC; the enrolled activating mutations were exon 19 deletion or L858R, and post-progression T790M testing was required for crossover to osimertinib.

  • Structure-based classification predicts drug response in EGFR-mutant NSCLC.
    The paper explicitly discusses EGFR T790M. It classifies T790M as a classical EGFR mutation and as a T790M-like mutation located in the hydrophobic core. In the reported cell-line drug-screening analysis, T790M was sensitive to third-generation EGFR TKIs but not to first- or second-generation TKIs. T790M-like mutants were further divided into third-generation-TKI-sensitive and -resistant groups; the resistant group consisted of complex mutations containing T790M together with C797S, L718X, or L792H, and retained selectivity for some ALK or PKC inhibitors. The paper does not provide variant-specific population-frequency, segregation, or individual clinical-case data for EGFR c.2369C>T / p.(T790M).
    → PS3 · strong Names this variant
    PMID 34526717 ↗
    Source detail
    Studies showed that exon 20 mutations are heterogenous in their response to TKIs10,22. Insertions in the αC-helix (for example, an FQEA insertion at A763 (A763insFQEA)) were pan-sensitive to EGFR TKIs23,24, whereas those in the loop following the αC-helix (A767–C775) were not25,26, and the T790M mutation was sensitive to third- but not first- or second-generation TKIs.

    Location Results, “Exon 20 mutations are heterogenous”

    Context Structural grouping and in vitro drug-sensitivity screening of 76 EGFR-mutant cell lines against 18 EGFR inhibitors, with additional retrospective clinical analyses of patients with EGFR-mutant NSCLC.

Other recorded publications

  • American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics technical standards and guidelines: microarray analysis for chromosome abnormalities in neoplastic disorders.
    No paper-specific finding is recorded.
    PMID 23619274 ↗
  • Standards and Guidelines for the Interpretation and Reporting of Sequence Variants in Cancer: A Joint Consensus Recommendation of the Association for Molecular Pathology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and College of American Pathologists.
    No paper-specific finding is recorded.
    PMID 27993330 ↗

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Statements for reports

The evidence statements recorded by the interpretation pipeline. They have not been reinterpreted by the page.

gnomAD v4.1

This variant is present in gnomAD v4.1 (AF= 9.91264e-06; MAF= 0.00099%, 16/1614100 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the African/African American population (AF= 5.33803e-05; MAF= 0.00534%, 4/74934 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 1.746e-05.

gnomAD v2.1

This variant is present in gnomAD v2.1 (AF= 3.53529e-05; MAF= 0.00354%, 10/282862 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the African/African American population (AF= 0.000160192; MAF= 0.01602%, 4/24970 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 4.078e-05.

gnomAD-Canada

Not available in gnomAD-Canada v1.0.

ClinVar

This variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely pathogenic (5 clinical laboratories) and as Pathogenic (3 clinical laboratories) and as drug response (1 clinical laboratory) and as likely pathogenic (1 clinical laboratory) and as drug response by ClinPGx (expert panel). (ClinVarID = 16613)

In silico

SpliceAI predicts no significant splice impact for this variant (max delta score = 0.00). REVEL score = 0.529. BayesDel score = 0.184053.

Functional

OncoKB identified variant-specific curated literature and context relevant to functional review; biological-effect context: Gain-of-function; curated oncogenicity label: Oncogenic.

Somatic

This variant lies in a statistically significant hotspot. This variant has previously been reported in somatic cancers (COSMIC; COSV51765492, n = 472 times).

Cancer Hotspots

This variant lies in a statistically significant hotspot.