Description
The p.M35R pathogenic mutation (also known as c.104T>G), located in coding exon 1 of the MLH1 gene, results from a T to G substitution at nucleotide position 104. The methionine at codon 35 is replaced by arginine, an amino acid with similar properties. This amino acid position is well conserved in available vertebrate species. This mutation, designated Met35>Arg (ATG>AGG), segregated with disease in a Swedish family meeting Amsterdam criteria (Tannergård P et al. Cancer Res. 1995 Dec;55:6092-6) and was identified in an individual with HNPCC whose two adenomas with low grade dysplasia demonstrated absent MLH1 and PMS2 by immunohistochemistry (Halvarsson B et al. Mod. Pathol. 2005 Aug;18:1095-101). In yeast functional assays, the M35R variant showed a mutator phenotype when compared to wild type suggesting inactivation of mismatch repair (Shcherbakova PV et al. Mol. Cell. Biol. 1999 Apr;19:3177-83). In a yeast two-hybrid assay, M35R displayed almost no beta-galactosidase activity similar to known deleterious alterations (Kondo E et al. Cancer Res. 2003 Jun;63:3302-8). Additionally, the M35R variant demonstrated no dominant mutator effect in reporter assays in yeast, which is consistent with pathogenicity (Shimodaira H et al. Nat Genet. 1998 Aug;19(4):384-9; Takahashi M et al. Cancer Res. 2007 May;67:4595-604). This alteration has been classified as pathogenic using the following lines of evidence: in silico prediction models, segregation with disease, clinical phenotype including tumor characteristics, mutation co-occurrence, and functional studies (Thompson BA et al. Hum. Mutat. 2013 Jan;34:200-9; Thompson BA et al. Nat. Genet. 2014 Feb;46:107-15; available at [www.insight-group.org/variants/classifications/]). In addition, the in silico prediction for this alteration is inconclusive. In addition, this alteration is predicted to be deleterious by MAPP-MMR in silico analyses (Chao EC et al. Hum. Mutat. 2008 Jun;29:852-60). Based on the supporting evidence, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation.
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | unknown | 1 | not provided | not provided | | 1 | not provided | not provided | not provided |