Mutations

TREM2 D39G

Overview

Pathogenicity: Alzheimer's Disease : Unclear Pathogenicity, Frontotemporal Dementia : Unclear Pathogenicity
Reference Assembly: GRCh37/hg19
Position: Chr6:41129276 A>G
dbSNP ID: NA
Coding/Non-Coding: Coding
DNA Change: Substitution
Expected RNA Consequence: Substitution
Expected Protein Consequence: Missense
Codon Change: GAC to GGC
Reference Isoform: TREM2 Isoform 1 (230 aa)
Genomic Region: Exon 2

Findings

In a Belgian study, this variant was found in one of 1216 AD patients and in none of 359 FTD patients or 1094 cognitively healthy controls (Cuyvers et al., 2014).

Neuropathology

No data.

Biological Effect

This variant was predicted to be benign by Polyphen-2, tolerated by SIFT, and neutral by SNPs&Go (Cuyvers et al., 2014).

Last Updated: 07 Feb 2018

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References

Paper Citations

  1. Cuyvers E, Bettens K, Philtjens S, Van Langenhove T, Gijselinck I, van der Zee J, Engelborghs S, Vandenbulcke M, Van Dongen J, Geerts N, Maes G, Mattheijssens M, Peeters K, Cras P, Vandenberghe R, De Deyn PP, Van Broeckhoven C, Cruts M, Sleegers K, BELNEU consortium. Investigating the role of rare heterozygous TREM2 variants in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Neurobiol Aging. 2014 Mar;35(3):726.e11-9. Epub 2013 Oct 9 PubMed.

Further Reading

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Protein Diagram

Primary Papers

  1. Cuyvers E, Bettens K, Philtjens S, Van Langenhove T, Gijselinck I, van der Zee J, Engelborghs S, Vandenbulcke M, Van Dongen J, Geerts N, Maes G, Mattheijssens M, Peeters K, Cras P, Vandenberghe R, De Deyn PP, Van Broeckhoven C, Cruts M, Sleegers K, BELNEU consortium. Investigating the role of rare heterozygous TREM2 variants in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Neurobiol Aging. 2014 Mar;35(3):726.e11-9. Epub 2013 Oct 9 PubMed.

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