Description
The p.C377Y pathogenic mutation (also known as c.1130G>A), located in coding exon 8 of the LDLR gene, results from a G to A substitution at nucleotide position 1130. The cysteine at codon 377 is replaced by tyrosine, an amino acid with highly dissimilar properties, and is located in the EGF-like B domain. This alteration, also described as p.C356Y, has been identified in several individuals from familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) cohorts (Ekström U et al. Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 1998;28:740-7, Mozas P et al. Hum. Mutat. 2004;24:187, Vandrovcova J et al. Genet. Med. 2013;15:948-57). In addition, alterations involving the same amino acid position, p.C377S (c.1130G>C), p.C377G (c.1129T>G) and p.C377F (c.1130G>T) have been reported in individuals with FH (Bertolini S et al. Atherosclerosis. 2013;227: 342-8, Wu WF et al. PLoS ONE 2014; 9:e94697, Romano M et al, J. Lipid Res. 2011; 52:2095-100). Pathogenic LDLR alterations that result in the substitution or generation of cysteine residues within the cysteine-rich LDLR class A repeats and EGF-like domains are common in familial hypercholesterolemia (Villéger L. Hum Mutat. 2002;20(2):81-7). Internal structural analysis indicates this alteration eliminates a disulfide bond critical for the structural integrity of EGF-like 2 domain (Ambry internal data). Based on the supporting evidence, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation.
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |