Mutations

SORL1 V520M

Overview

Clinical Phenotype: Alzheimer's Disease
Position: (GRCh38/hg38):Chr11:121522951 G>A
Position: (GRCh37/hg19):Chr11:121393660 G>A
dbSNP ID: rs757312764
Coding/Non-Coding: Coding
DNA Change: Substitution
Expected Protein Consequence: Missense
Codon Change: GTG to ATG
Reference Isoform: SORL1 Isoform 1 (2214 aa)
Genomic Region: Exon 11

Findings

This variant was found in one subject with early onset Alzheimer’s disease and one control in a sample of 852 early onset cases, 927 late-onset AD cases, and 1273 controls from the Alzheimer Disease Exome Sequencing France (ADESFR) project (Campion et al., 2019).

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

Functional Consequences

The SORL1 VPS10P domain resembles a 10-bladed propeller, with the blades arranged around a central tunnel. Valine-520 is part of a stretch of hydrophobic residues conserved among the propeller blades and thought to have a role in the formation of the tunnel, as well as providing a hydrophobic surface that allows small lipophilic ligands to bind within the tunnel (Kitago et al., 2015). Andersen and colleagues have predicted that non-conservative substitutions at this position will have a moderate effect on disease-risk (Andersen et al., 2023). However, substitution of valine with methionine, another hydrophobic residue, might be tolerated. (A methionine is found in the homologous position in frogs.)

The V520M variant was predicted to be tolerated by SIFT, but deleterious by Mutation Taster and PolyPhen-2 (Campion et al., 2019).

Last Updated: 18 Jul 2024

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References

Paper Citations

  1. . SORL1 genetic variants and Alzheimer disease risk: a literature review and meta-analysis of sequencing data. Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Aug;138(2):173-186. Epub 2019 Mar 25 PubMed.
  2. . 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.
  3. . Structural basis for amyloidogenic peptide recognition by sorLA. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015 Mar;22(3):199-206. Epub 2015 Feb 2 PubMed.
  4. . 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.

Further Reading

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Protein Diagram

Primary Papers

  1. . SORL1 genetic variants and Alzheimer disease risk: a literature review and meta-analysis of sequencing data. Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Aug;138(2):173-186. Epub 2019 Mar 25 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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