# NM_012179.4(FBXO7):c.961C>T (p.Arg321Ter)

https://sugi.bio/variant/fbxo7-p-arg321ter

## Summary

**FBXO7 p.Arg321Ter (c.961C>T)** is classified **Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic** in FBXO7 (ClinVar, Multiple submitters, 4 submitters; last evaluated 2024-11-13). Very rare (popmax 0.00441%, sas); Associated with parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome.

**At a glance:** Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic · review: Multiple submitters · rsID rs369105683 · 4 submitters · 1 linked condition · very rare (popmax 0.00441%, sas)

## For patients & families {#patients}

This is a change in the FBXO7 gene that is considered likely disease-causing, submitted by 4 submitters, and is linked to parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome.

*Reference information, not medical advice, and not a prediction for any individual. A genetic counselor or clinician can interpret what it means for you and your family.*

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Typical inheritance (of this condition) | Autosomal recessive |
| Age of onset (of this condition) | Adolescent, Adult |
| Diagnostic panels | FBXO7 is a diagnostic-grade gene on 7 Genomics England panels |

**Commonly reported features of Parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome** (across patients with this condition; presentation varies — frequencies from Orphanet):

- Parkinsonism — Obligate (100%)
- Abnormal pyramidal sign — Obligate (100%)
- Neurogenic bladder — Frequent (79-30%)
- Hypomimic face — Frequent (79-30%)
- Slow saccadic eye movements — Frequent (79-30%)
- Spasticity — Frequent (79-30%)
- Dystonia — Frequent (79-30%)
- Myoclonus — Frequent (79-30%)

**Support & next steps:** [Condition overview & support (NIH GARD)](https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/0009175/index) · [Find a genetic counselor (NSGC)](https://findageneticcounselor.nsgc.org/).

## Identity {#identity}

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Gene | [FBXO7](https://sugi.bio/atlas/gene/FBXO7/) |
| Protein change (HGVS p.) | p.Arg321Ter |
| Coding change (HGVS c.) | c.961C>T |
| MANE Select transcript | [NM_012179](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NM_012179) |
| dbSNP | [rs369105683](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs369105683/) |
| Variant type | single nucleotide variant |
| Location | chr22:32491175-32491175 (GRCh38) |
| ClinVar | [VCV1678355](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/1678355/) |

**All HGVS expressions:** `NC_000022.10:g.32887162C>T`, `NC_000022.11:g.32491175C>T`, `NG_016001.2:g.21456C>T`, `NM_001033024.2:c.724C>T`, `NM_001257990.2:c.619C>T`, `NM_012179.4:c.961C>T`

## Computational & population evidence {#evidence}

**Concordance:** 1 independent predictor **concordant** with the ClinVar classification.

- **Missense predictors (AlphaMissense/REVEL/SaProt) do not apply** to this variant type — they score amino-acid substitutions only. For non-missense variants the computational signal comes from conservation (below), not from a missing predictor score.
- Conservation: phyloP 2.198, GERP 0.347, phastCons 0.994 — highly conserved position (PP3-type support)
- Molecular consequence: **nonsense (stop-gain)** — a predicted loss-of-function variant. Gene population constraint: LOEUF 0.955, pLI 2.9822e-07. *Descriptive; not an applied PVS1 code.*
- Nonsense-mediated decay: the premature termination codon is **in exon 6 of 9**, so the transcript is predicted to undergo NMD.
- CADD: **PHRED 41.0**. No single ClinGen-calibrated threshold exists and the expert panels that use CADD disagree — GUCY2D/AIPL1 require ≥ 20.0 for an untranslated-region variant, ABCA4 ≥ 28.1 for a synonymous or indel variant, the Pulmonary Hypertension panel imports Pejaver 2022's missense-calibrated numbers, and the Antibody Deficiencies panel declines CADD entirely for PIK3CD. CADD v1.7 also incorporates Zoonomia phyloP, so it partly re-expresses the conservation above. *Descriptive; no threshold applied.*
- SpliceAI: **not assessed** — no allele at this position is in our SpliceAI release, either because it lies outside the scored MANE transcript scope or because every allele is below Δ0.2. We cannot tell which, so this claims neither; absence is not evidence against a splicing effect.
- Population frequency (gnomAD v4.1): grpmax **0.00441%** (sas) · FAF95 0.00278% · FAF99 0.00247% · 4/90,626 in the highest group · 53/1,595,452 alleles overall — very rare (popmax 0.00441%, sas).

| Ancestry group | Allele frequency | 1 in |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remaining individuals (not grpmax-eligible) | 0.00485% | 20,617 |
| South Asian (grpmax) | 0.00441% | 22,657 |
| European (non-Finnish) | 0.0037% | 27,059 |
| Admixed American | 0.00334% | 29,979 |
| African / African-American | 0.00134% | 74,448 |

Remaining individuals shows a higher raw frequency than the grpmax group. gnomAD excludes bottlenecked groups — Finnish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Amish and "Remaining individuals" — from grpmax, because founder effects make their frequencies unrepresentative for filtering. The table is sorted by frequency, so an excluded group can sit above the grpmax row.

*Computational predictors are not independent (ClinGen Variant Classification guidance): AlphaMissense (Cheng et al. 2023) carries the ACMG weight for missense and conservation (phyloP/GERP/phastCons) for non-missense; REVEL (Pejaver-2022 calibrated strength bands) and SaProt (Su et al. 2023, structure-aware, ClinVar-independent protein language model, raw LLR) are shown as orthogonal agreement signals, not additive. For frequency, the gnomAD v4.1 grpmax filtering allele frequency (FAF95) is ClinGen's designated BA1/BS1 input (gnomAD v4 guidance v3.0, June 2025); BA1/BS1 thresholds are disease-specific, not a blanket 5%. Predictions, not a clinical determination.*

## Gene constraint & dosage {#gene-context}

**FBXO7** population constraint: LOEUF 0.955, pLI 2.9822e-07, missense-Z -0.0088092; ClinGen dosage — haploinsufficiency gene assoc. with recessive phenotype, triplosensitivity Not yet evaluated/3. *Lower LOEUF and higher pLI indicate a gene that tolerates loss-of-function poorly; ClinGen dosage is the curated haploinsufficiency call.*

## Protein context {#protein}

Residue **321** lies in an α-helix; the 'important for dimerization and interaction with psmf1' region.

AlphaFold model confidence (whole protein): pLDDT 67.13, 13% of residues very-high.

**2 experimental structure(s)** (PDB): [4L9C](https://www.rcsb.org/structure/4L9C), [4L9H](https://www.rcsb.org/structure/4L9H).

## What this gene does {#gene-function}

*Describes the biological roles of FBXO7 (the gene this variant disrupts) — not effects measured for this specific variant. A damaging variant is expected to affect these functions and pathways; the degree depends on the variant.*

**How this variant is thought to act:** FBXO7's established molecular role includes protein kinase binding. p.Arg321Ter falls in the important for dimerization and interaction with psmf1 region.


### Pathways affected {#pathways}

FBXO7 participates in **2 Reactome pathways** (⚕ = disease pathway):

| Pathway (Reactome) | Evidence |
| --- | --- |
| [Antigen processing: Ubiquitination & Proteasome degradation](https://reactome.org/content/detail/R-HSA-983168) | curated |
| [Neddylation](https://reactome.org/content/detail/R-HSA-8951664) | curated |

### Molecular function & processes (GO — experimentally supported) {#go}

**Molecular function:** protein kinase binding, ubiquitin protein ligase binding, ubiquitin binding, protein heterodimerization activity, ubiquitin-like ligase-substrate adaptor activity.

**Biological process:** autophagy of mitochondrion, ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process, obsolete protein targeting to mitochondrion, regulation of neuron projection development, protein ubiquitination, SCF-dependent proteasomal ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process.

## Clinical significance {#significance}

**Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic** — review status Multiple submitters *(criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts)*, last evaluated 2024-11-13.

**Submitter consensus:** conflicting (2 Likely pathogenic, 2 Pathogenic).

**Submission history:** 4 submissions (2021–2024); classifications have differed over time.

### Submitter classifications {#submitters}

| Submitter | Classification | Review | Method | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AiLife Diagnostics, AiLife Diagnostics | Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter | clinical testing | 2021-02-06 |
| Fulgent Genetics, Fulgent Genetics | Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter | clinical testing | 2024-06-18 |
| Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp | Pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter | clinical testing | 2024-11-13 |
| Dasa | Pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter | clinical testing | 2024-05-13 |

## Associated conditions {#conditions}

[parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome](https://sugi.bio/atlas/disease/parkinsonian-pyramidal-syndrome/).

**Reported phenotype names (ClinVar):** Parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome, not provided, none provided, PARKINSON DISEASE 15, AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE, PALLIDOPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME, PARKINSON DISEASE 15, AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE EARLY-ONSET.

## Similar variants {#similar}

Related FBXO7 variant pages (same residue, condition, or type): [FBXO7 p.Arg345Ter](/variant/fbxo7-p-arg345ter), [FBXO7 p.Arg381Ter](/variant/fbxo7-p-arg381ter), [FBXO7 p.Arg45Ter](/variant/fbxo7-p-arg45ter), [FBXO7 p.Arg498Ter](/variant/fbxo7-p-arg498ter), [FBXO7 p.Gln237Ter](/variant/fbxo7-p-gln237ter), [FBXO7 p.Thr22Met](/variant/fbxo7-p-thr22met), [FBXO7 p.Ala84Val](/variant/fbxo7-p-ala84val), [FBXO7 p.Arg306His](/variant/fbxo7-p-arg306his).

### Data sources & attribution {#sources}

ClinVar (NCBI — public domain, built 2026-10-14); gnomAD v4.1 (Broad Institute, built 2026-10-14); AlphaMissense (Cheng et al. 2023, © Google DeepMind — CC BY 4.0, built 2026-01-27); REVEL (Ioannidis et al. 2016 — ODbL, built 2026-07-13); SaProt (Su et al. 2023 — MIT, built 2026-10-14); SpliceAI (Illumina — free for non-commercial use, built 2026-10-13); CADD (Rentzsch et al. 2019, University of Washington — free for non-commercial use, built 2026-10-10); Conservation (phyloP/phastCons/GERP) (UCSC hg38 470-way mammal (Hiller Lab) + Ensembl Compara, built 2026-07-12); gnomAD Non-coding Constraint (Gnocchi) (Chen et al. 2024, Broad Institute — CC0, built 2026-10-11); gnomAD Regional Missense Constraint (Broad Institute — CC0, built 2026-10-13); Pangolin (Zeng & Li 2022 — CC BY 4.0, built 2026-10-11); Repeat regions (UCSC — RepeatMasker, TRF, segmental duplications, built 2026-10-11); ClinGen (ClinGen, built 2026-09-22); UniProt (CC BY 4.0); Reactome / GO (CC BY 4.0, built 2026-09-23); MaveDB (per-record license, built 2026-10-11); CIViC (CC0, built 2026-09-22); Orphanet (Orphanet, built 2026-06-12)

*Primary record: NCBI ClinVar (variation 1678355). Classifications reflect these databases as of the page's build date and may change. Free reference use — not medical advice; consult the primary submitters and a clinician.*