Description
This sequence change replaces glutamic acid, which is acidic and polar, with lysine, which is basic and polar, at codon 228 of the LDLR protein (p.Glu228Lys). This variant is present in population databases (rs121908029, gnomAD 0.01%). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with familial hypercholesterolemia (PMID: 2318961, 21475731, 21722902, 22390909, 23375686). In at least one individual the data is consistent with being in trans (on the opposite chromosome) from a pathogenic variant. This variant is also known as p.Glu207Lys. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 3691). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) performed at Invitae indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt LDLR protein function with a positive predictive value of 95%. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change affects LDLR function (PMID: 18677035). This variant disrupts the p.Glu228 amino acid residue in LDLR. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 1301956, 8882879, 16250003, 17094996). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.
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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 |