Description
The c.894G>A pathogenic mutation (also known as p.Q298Q) is located in coding exon 7 of the LIPA gene. This variant results from a G to A substitution at nucleotide position 894. This nucleotide substitution does not change the glutamine at codon 298. However, this change occurs in the last base pair of coding exon 7, which makes it likely to have some effect on normal mRNA splicing. This variant is the most common mutation associated with cholesteryl ester storage disease (CESD) and haplotype analysis indicates that it is a founder mutation (Fasano T et al. Mol. Genet. Metab., 2012 Mar;105:450-6). It has been detected in the homozygous state or in trans with other pathogenic variants in numerous individuals with CESD, and it has been shown to segregate with disease in multiple families (Ameis D et al. J. Lipid Res., 1995 Feb;36:241-50; Anderson RA et al. Mol. Genet. Metab., 1999 Nov;68:333-45; Tadiboyina VT et al. Lipids Health Dis, 2005 Oct;4:26; Stitziel NO et al. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 2013 Dec;33:2909-14; Pullinger CR et al. J Clin Lipidol. 2015 Jul;9:716-26.e1; Chora JR et al. J Clin Lipidol. 2017 Nov;11:477-484.e2; Maciejko JJ et al. J Clin Lipidol. 2017 Feb;11:567-574). Functional studies have demonstrated that this alteration causes in-frame skipping of exon 7, with only ~3% of mRNA spliced correctly (Klima H et al. J. Clin. Invest., 1993 Dec;92:2713-8; Ameis D et al. J. Lipid Res., 1995 Feb;36:241-50; Aslanidis C et al. Genomics, 1996 Apr;33:85-93; Fasano T et al. Mol. Genet. Metab., 2012 Mar;105:450-6). Based on the supporting evidence, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation.
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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 |