Description
The p.Leu218Pro variant in IDUA has been reported in at least 15 individuals with mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) (PMID: 22976768, 23837464, 7951228) and has been identified in 0.002% (2/102072) of European (non-Finnish) chromosomes by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD, http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org; dbSNP rs869025584). Although this variant has been seen in the general population, its frequency is low enough to be consistent with a recessive carrier frequency. The Leu at position 218 is not highly conserved in mammals or evolutionary distant species, raising the possibility that a change at this position may be tolerated. However, additional computational prediction tools suggest that this variant may impact the protein, though this information is not predictive enough to determine pathogenicity. The presence of this variant in 3 affected homozygotes and in combination with reported pathogenic variants in 11 individuals with MPS increases the likelihood that the p.Leu218Pro variant is pathogenic (VariationID: 11908, 11909; PMID: 22976768, 23837464, 7951228). The phenotype of individuals compound heterozygous for this variant is highly specific for MPS based on alpha-L-iduronidase activity being <1% of normal, consistent with disease (PMID: 23837464). In summary, this variant meets criteria to be classified as pathogenic for MPS in an autosomal recessive manner based its detection in combination with reported pathogenic variants, its low frequency in the general population, and the phenotype of patients with the variant being highly specific for MPS. ACMG/AMP Criteria applied: PM3_very-strong, PM2, PP4 (Richards 2015).
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |