Mutations

SORL1 R480C

Overview

Clinical Phenotype: Alzheimer's Disease
Position: (GRCh38/hg38):Chr11:121522619 C>T
Position: (GRCh37/hg19):Chr11:121393328 C>T
dbSNP ID: rs751192763
Coding/Non-Coding: Coding
DNA Change: Substitution
Expected Protein Consequence: Missense
Codon Change: CGC to TGC
Reference Isoform: SORL1 Isoform 1 (2214 aa)
Genomic Region: Exon 10

Findings

In a study that included 15,808 Alzheimer’s cases and 16,097 control subjects from multiple European and American cohorts, this allele was observed once among the AD cases (Holstege et al., 2022).

Previously, in a European study of 1255 cases and 1938 controls, a Spanish subject with early onset Alzheimer’s disease (age of onset 63 years) and a family history of AD was found to be a heterozygous carrier of this variant (Verheijen et al., 2016).

The variant is classified as likely pathogenic by the criteria of Holstege et al. (Holstege et al., 2017).

Functional Consequences

Arginine-480 is found within a loop structure that connects the seventh and eighth Vps10p β-propellers. This loop structure is thought to be critical for peptide binding to SORL1, and changes in the conformation of the loop structure at acidic pH may underlie the release of peptide ligands in lysosomes (Kitago et al., 2015). Mutations resulting in a gain of a cysteine within the loop structure likely disrupt the conformation of the structure, and Andersen and colleagues have predicted that such mutations at this position are highly likely to associate with AD risk (Andersen et al., 2023).

The R480C variant was predicted to be damaging by SIFT, disease causing by Mutation Taster, and probably damaging by PolyPhen-2 (Verheijen et al., 2016).

Last Updated: 18 Jul 2024

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References

Paper Citations

  1. . Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet. 2022 Dec;54(12):1786-1794. Epub 2022 Nov 21 PubMed.
  2. . A comprehensive study of the genetic impact of rare variants in SORL1 in European early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol. 2016 Aug;132(2):213-24. Epub 2016 Mar 30 PubMed.
  3. . Characterization of pathogenic SORL1 genetic variants for association with Alzheimer's disease: a clinical interpretation strategy. Eur J Hum Genet. 2017 Aug;25(8):973-981. Epub 2017 May 24 PubMed.
  4. . Structural basis for amyloidogenic peptide recognition by sorLA. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015 Mar;22(3):199-206. Epub 2015 Feb 2 PubMed.
  5. . Relying on the relationship with known disease-causing variants in homologous proteins to predict pathogenicity of SORL1 variants in Alzheimer's disease. 2023 Feb 27 10.1101/2023.02.27.524103 (version 1) bioRxiv.

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Protein Diagram

Primary Papers

  1. . A comprehensive study of the genetic impact of rare variants in SORL1 in European early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol. 2016 Aug;132(2):213-24. Epub 2016 Mar 30 PubMed.
  2. . Relying on the relationship with known disease-causing variants in homologous proteins to predict pathogenicity of SORL1 variants in Alzheimer's disease. 2023 Feb 27 10.1101/2023.02.27.524103 (version 1) bioRxiv.

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