Description
The p.R114W pathogenic mutation (also known as c.340C>T and R127W), located in coding exon 4 of the HNF4A gene, results from a C to T substitution at nucleotide position 340. The arginine at codon 114 is replaced by tryptophan, an amino acid with dissimilar properties. This mutation was first reported in a Japanese maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY) family (Furuta H et al. Diabetes, 1997 Oct;46:1652-7) and was subsequently reported in two Italian individuals with MODY (Delvecchio M et al. Diabetes Care, 2014 Dec;37:e258-60). This mutation has shown strong segregation with disease across multiple pedigrees; however, when compared to other mutations in HNF4A, reduced penetrance (54% vs. 71% by age 30), later age of onset (median 34 vs. 24, p=0.018), and decreased responsiveness to sulfonylurea treatment (48% vs. 73%, p = 0.038) were observed (Laver TW et al. Diabetes, 2016 Oct;65:3212-7). Although transactivation activity of this mutation was observed to be normal in one study (Navas MA et al. Diabetes, 1999 Jul;48:1459-65), additional studies using multiple conditions and additional cell lines have shown that DNA binding and transactivation ability is reduced by approximately 50% due to this mutation (Lausen J et al. Nucleic Acids Res., 2000 Jan;28:430-7; Yang Q et al. Diabetologia, 2000 Apr;43:520-4). Based on structural analysis, this alteration will disrupt proper dimerization of the receptor and DNA binding (Chandra V et al. Nature, 2013 Mar;495:394-8). 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 |