ClinVar

Description

This sequence change replaces cysteine, which is neutral and slightly polar, with tyrosine, which is neutral and polar, at codon 109 of the LDLR protein (p.Cys109Tyr). This variant is present in population databases (rs121908042, gnomAD 0.0009%). This missense change has been observed in individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia (PMID: 9544745, 11313767, 20145306, 21310417, 22883975, 24956927). This variant is also known as Cys88Tyr. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 226319). 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%. This variant affects a cysteine residue located within an LDLRA or epidermal-growth-factor (EGF)-like domains of the LDLR protein. Cysteine residues in these domains have been shown to be involved in the formation of disulfide bridges, which are critical for protein structure and stability (PMID: 7548065, 7603991, 7979249). In addition, missense substitutions within the LDLRA and EGF-like domains affecting cysteine residues are overrepresented among patients with hypercholesterolemia (PMID: 18325082). This variant disrupts the p.Cys109 amino acid residue in LDLR. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been observed in individuals with LDLR-related conditions (PMID: 11313767, 12009418), which suggests that this may be a clinically significant amino acid residue. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.