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Hereditary nephropathic systemic amyloidosis caused by a novel variant apolipoprotein A-I.
Kidney International 1998 Februrary
We report a family with autosomal-dominant hereditary systemic amyloidosis in three generations, presenting with renal involvement. Two members of the current generation received renal transplants for end-stage renal failure 16 and 18 years ago, and remain very well clinically despite massive visceral amyloidosis. Two other members of this generation, aged 32 and 47 years, have massive systemic amyloid but no clinical disability. Individuals known to be affected in previous generations died of renal failure in early adult life. Amyloid deposits in the proband, one of the transplanted individuals, were composed of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I), and among living family members there was complete concordance between amyloidosis and the presence of a novel 9 base pair in-frame deletion mutation in exon 4 of the apoA-I gene, causing a loss of residues Glu70Phe71Trp72. This predicts the acquisition of a single extra positive charge by mature apoA-I, and this variant was detected in the plasma of all carriers. All the previously reported amyloidogenic variants of apoA-I also carry an extra positive charge, indicating that this electrostatic change is likely to be relevant to the amyloidogenicity of apoA-I.
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