Description
The p.D118Y variant (also known as c.352G>T), located in coding exon 4 of the LDLR gene, results from a G to T substitution at nucleotide position 352. The aspartic acid at codon 118 is replaced by tyrosine, an amino acid with highly dissimilar properties. This alteration, also known as p.D97Y, has been reported primarily in Italian familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) cohorts (Bertolini S et al. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 1999 Feb;19:408-18; Liguori R et al. Hum. Mutat., 2001 May;17:433; Campagna F et al. Atherosclerosis, 2008 Jan;196:356-64; Romano M et al. Atherosclerosis, 2010 Jun;210:493-6; Minicocci I et al. J. Pediatr., 2017 Apr;183:100-107.e3; Scicali R et al. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 2018 Jan;28:35-43). Reduced LDL-R activity (30% of the control) was reported in a compound heterozygous FH patient who also carried the p.V523M pathogenic mutation (Bertolini S et al. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 1999 Feb;19:408-18). Based on internal structural analysis, this variant is predicted to disrupt a linear motif (Ambry internal data). This amino acid position is not well 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 |