Description
Variant summary: LDLR c.1836C>T alters a non-conserved nucleotide resulting in a synonymous change. Computational tools predict no significant impact on normal splicing. However, these predictions have yet to be confirmed by functional studies. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00018 in 251468 control chromosomes (i.e., 46 heterozygotes; gnomAD v2.1 Exomes dataset). This frequency is not significantly higher than estimated for a pathogenic variant in LDLR causing Early Onset Coronary Artery Disease (0.00018 vs 0.001), allowing no conclusion about variant significance. The variant, c.1836C>T, has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with premature atherosclerosis and/or hypercholesterolaemia (e.g., Widhalm_2007, Chmara_2010, Saracoglu_2018). These reports do not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with disease. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. The following publications have been ascertained in the context of this evaluation (PMID: 20145306, 28145427, 22881376, 17347910, 29870584). Multiple submitters have reported clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 with conflicting assessments (benign, n = 1; likely benign, n = 5; VUS, n = 4; likely pathogenic, n = 1). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as likely benign.
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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 |