Description
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. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. This variant disrupts the p.Trp443 amino acid residue in LDLR. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 1301956, 9664576, 9727746, 11196104, 22390909). This suggests that this residue is clinically significant, and that variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be disease-causing. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 998052). This variant is also known as W422R. This variant has been observed in individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia (PMID: 15477777, 28290784). It has also been observed to segregate with disease in related individuals. This variant is present in population databases (rs773566855, ExAC 0.002%). This sequence change replaces tryptophan with arginine at codon 443 of the LDLR protein (p.Trp443Arg). The tryptophan residue is highly conserved and there is a moderate physicochemical difference between tryptophan and arginine.
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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 |