Description
The p.G985R variant (also known as c.2953G>A), located in coding exon 24 of the FBN1 gene, results from a G to A substitution at nucleotide position 2953. The glycine at codon 985 is replaced by arginine, an amino acid with dissimilar properties, and is located in the TGFBP #03 domain. This alteration has been identified in multiple individuals with classical Marfan syndrome and reported to co-segregate with disease (Loeys B et al. Arc Intern Med. 2001;161(20):2447-54; Howarth R et al. Genet. Test., 2007;11:146-52; Ware AL et al. Cardiovasc. Pathol. 2016 Jun;25:418-22). Another study has suggested that this alteration does not co-segregate with disease (Yang H et al. Sci Rep, 2016 Sep;6:33002). An alteration affecting the same amino acid (p.G985E, c.2954G>A) has been reported in individuals with classical Marfan syndrome (Collod-Béroud G et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet., 1999 Sep;65:917-21; Stheneur C et al. Eur. J. Hum. Genet., 2009 Sep;17:1121-8). This amino acid position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. In addition, this alteration is predicted to be deleterious by in silico analysis. Based on the majority of available evidence to date, this variant is likely to be pathogenic.
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |