Description
This missense variant (also known as p.Asp26Asn in the mature protein, and as FH Hyogo) replaces aspartic acid with asparagine in the first LDLR-A repeat in codon 47 of the LDLR protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may have a deleterious impact on protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold >= 0.7, PMID: 27666373). A functional study reported that this variant does not cause a defect in LDLR expression and function (PMID: 30413722). This LDLR variant has been reported in over 15 heterozygous individuals affected with familial hypercholesterolemia (PMID 11313767, 11857755, 18718593, 29399563, 32331935, 33547002, 33533259, 35319679, 35929461; communication with an external laboratory; ClinVar variation ID: 251034). This variant has also been observed in compound heterozygous state with a known pathogenic LDLR variant in two individuals affected with severe homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, a phenotype expected of having two deleterious LDLR variants (PMID: 35319679). It has been shown that this variant segregates with disease in 6 affected individuals from two unrelated families (communication with an external laboratory; ClinVar variation ID: 251034); some individuals carrying this variant did not show elevated cholesterol levels, reflecting incomplete penetrance. This variant has been identified in 4/251226 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Based on the available evidence, this variant is classified as Likely Pathogenic.
| # | Sample | Method | Observation |
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| Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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| 1 | germline | unknown | 108544 | not provided | not provided | | 1 | not provided | not provided | not provided |
