ClinVar

Description

The p.H87D variant (also known as c.259C>G) is located in coding exon 2 of the ACVRL1 gene. This alteration results from a C to G substitution at nucleotide position 259. The histidine at codon 87 is replaced by aspartic acid, an amino acid with dissimilar properties. This variant was reported in an 11 year old proband affected with frequent epixstasis and one equivocal telangiectasia, whose father is affected with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and has a younger brother with frequent nosebleeds since age 1. The proband also carried the ENG p.R571H alteration, which has been reported in one case of early onset juvenile polyposis syndrome by Sweet et al, 2005. Both ACVRL1 p.H87D and ENG p.R571H were presumably inherited from the affected father (who was not available for testing) as the patient's unaffected mother carried neither of these changes. The proband's younger brother was negative for ACVRL1 p.H87D and positive for ENG pR571H. In addition, the ACVRL1 p.H87D variant was observed in the proband's reportedly affected paternal grandmother, and the ENG p.R571H was observed in the unaffected paternal grandfather. Thus, the segregation of ACVRL1 p.H87D with HHT is suggestive but not entirely conclusive in this family (McDonald J et al. J Mol Diagn. 2009;11(6):569-575). This variant was not reported in population-based cohorts in the following databases: Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (dbSNP), NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project (ESP) and 1000 Genomes Project. Based on available vertebrate protein sequence alignment, this amino acid position is well conserved in mammals. In addition, the in silico prediction for this alteration is inconclusive. Based on available evidence to date, the clinical significance of this variant remains unclear.