Overview

Clinical Phenotype: Alzheimer's Disease
Position: (GRCh38/hg38):Chr11:121470085 C>T
Position: (GRCh37/hg19):Chr11:121340794 C>T
dbSNP ID: rs775517202
Coding/Non-Coding: Coding
DNA Change: Substitution
Expected Protein Consequence: Nonsense
Codon Change: CGA to TGA
Reference Isoform: SORL1 Isoform 1 (2214 aa)
Genomic Region: exon 2

Findings

This protein-truncating variant, in homozygosity, was found in a Spanish patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (Alvarez-Mora et al., 2022). Early symptoms—memory problems, spatial difficulties, and apathy—emerged at age 59. Cognition progressively declined, and by age 65, when last evaluated, he was classified as suffering from moderate dementia.

Magnetic resonance imaging revealed global brain atrophy that was most pronounced in the parietal lobes, as well as superficial siderosis in the frontal and occipital lobes and subcortical microhemorrhages. Amyloid-PET imaging with ¹⁸F-Florbetaben was positive.

The carrier had a family history of AD. His father (age of onset 61) and paternal grandfather (age of onset unknown) were diagnosed with AD. A first cousin, related to the proband on both his paternal and maternal sides of the family, was also diagnosed with AD, with symptom onset prior to age 65. The mother of the proband was cognitively intact at age 80 and died with mild cognitive problems at age 92. Two siblings were cognitively intact at ages 72 and 74.

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).

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References

Paper Citations

1. Alvarez-Mora MI, Blanco-Palmero VA, Quesada-Espinosa JF, Arteche-Lopez AR, Llamas-Velasco S, Palma Milla C, Lezana Rosales JM, Gomez-Manjon I, Hernandez-Lain A, Jimenez Almonacid J, Gil-Fournier B, Ramiro-León S, González-Sánchez M, Herrero-San Martín AO, Pérez-Martínez DA, Gómez-Tortosa E, Carro E, Bartolomé F, Gomez-Rodriguez MJ, Sanchez-Calvin MT, Villarejo-Galende A, Moreno-Garcia M. Heterozygous and Homozygous Variants in SORL1 Gene in Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Clinical, Neuroimaging and Neuropathological Findings. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Apr 11;23(8) PubMed.
2. Holstege H, Hulsman M, Charbonnier C, Grenier-Boley B, Quenez O, Grozeva D, van Rooij JG, Sims R, Ahmad S, Amin N, Norsworthy PJ, Dols-Icardo O, Hummerich H, Kawalia A, Amouyel P, Beecham GW, Berr C, Bis JC, Boland A, Bossù P, Bouwman F, Bras J, Campion D, Cochran JN, Daniele A, Dartigues JF, Debette S, Deleuze JF, Denning N, DeStefano AL, Farrer LA, Fernández MV, Fox NC, Galimberti D, Genin E, Gille JJ, Le Guen Y, Guerreiro R, Haines JL, Holmes C, Ikram MA, Ikram MK, Jansen IE, Kraaij R, Lathrop M, Lemstra AW, Lleó A, Luckcuck L, Mannens MM, Marshall R, Martin ER, Masullo C, Mayeux R, Mecocci P, Meggy A, Mol MO, Morgan K, Myers RM, Nacmias B, Naj AC, Napolioni V, Pasquier F, Pastor P, Pericak-Vance MA, Raybould R, Redon R, Reinders MJ, Richard AC, Riedel-Heller SG, Rivadeneira F, Rousseau S, Ryan NS, Saad S, Sanchez-Juan P, Schellenberg GD, Scheltens P, Schott JM, Seripa D, Seshadri S, Sie D, Sistermans EA, Sorbi S, van Spaendonk R, Spalletta G, Tesi N, Tijms B, Uitterlinden AG, van der Lee SJ, Visser PJ, Wagner M, Wallon D, Wang LS, Zarea A, Clarimon J, van Swieten JC, Greicius MD, Yokoyama JS, Cruchaga C, Hardy J, Ramirez A, Mead S, van der Flier WM, van Duijn CM, Williams J, Nicolas G, Bellenguez C, Lambert JC. 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.

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