Table 3.

Confirmed Common and Rare Nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP)

Gene Exon Codon Amino acid Ethnicity Disorder[i] Frequency[ii] A-A whites Comments
Common (>1%)[iii]
ACAT2 7ACC→ATCT254I[iv] Multiple0.200.25
CHA1 1 GGC→AGCG2SMultiple Acton et al. 1999
3 GTC→ATCV135IMultiple Acton et al. 1999
 SCAP 15 GTC→ATCV796IMultiple0.150.48 Iwaki et al. 1999
 SREBF-2 10GCC→GGCA595GMultiple0.390.75
10 GTG→ATGV623MA-A0.040
14AGG→AGC R860SMultiple0.020.05
Rare (<1%)[iii]
HMGCR 16 ATA→GTAI638VCaucasianAtypical Type III00Insufficient data[v]
CaucasianFCHLInsufficient data
CaucasianFCHLNo co-segregation
CaucasianLow HDL-C (AD)No co-segregation
LDLR 3GAC→GTCD79VCaucasianAtypical Type III00See Fig. 1A. Not  detected by SSCP.
4TCG→TTGS156LPuerto RicanFH00 Hobbs et al. 1992
6 GAG→AAGE256KCaucasianDiet-induced00 Ekstrom et al. 1995
HCLFamily not available.
S1P 13AAC→AGCN544SGreekFCHL00No co-segregation.
20 CAG→TAGQ868XCaucasianPolygenic HCL00See Fig. 1B. No co-segregation.
SREBF1 18aCGG→CAGR1064QCaucasianType V, DM00No co-segregation.

[i] Abbreviations: FH, Familial Hypercholesterolemia; HCL, hypercholesterolemia; DM, Diabetes Mellitus; FCHL, Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia; HDL-C, HDL-cholesterol; A-A, African-Americans.

[ii] Minor allele frequency in African-Americans (A-A) and Whites.

[iii] Common (>1%) or rare (<1%) in the general population.

[iv] Isoleucine at amino acid position 254 is substituted for threonine. All amino acids are numbered according to the initiator codon (ATG) being position 1.

[v] Not a sufficient number of segregations in the family of the proband to assess relationship between sequence variant and the hyperlipidemia.