recognized in a large family that originated in Newfoundland but has some members who live in New Brunswick and Ontario. A collaborative investigation was begun in 1982 to document the number of affected members and the extent of their disease and to improve management of the disease. The condition has been documented in 38 members of the family, 28 living and 10 dead. The most common manifestations are retinal angioma (present in 60% of the gene carriers) and pheochromocytoma (present in 53%). Of the 28 living affected members 14 had been identified before the study began. Only 3 of the 14 patients in whom the disease was subsequently diagnosed presented with symptoms; in the remaining 11 the condition was detected by routine screening. Overall the mean age at the time of diagnosis was 23 years; in the 21 affected members of the fourth generation it was 18 years.
PatientID: I-2
KindredID: 1
Case: M, Age Unknown (deceased), Ethnicity Unknown
DiseaseAssertion: Assumed VHL
FamilyInfo: 38 family members had been affected at the date of 1986, and 10 had passed away. Pheochromocytoma, cerebellar, spinal and retinal hemangioblastomas, and various cysts were clinical manifestations of VHL seen throughout the family. This male (I-2) appears to be the furthest traced relative with the presumed mutation, passing on to 3 of his 4 offspring, and dozens of kin thereafter. See Fig 1 for family pedigree.
CasePresentingHPOs: N/A
CaseHPOFreeText: Affected, although details are unknown.
CaseNotHPOs: N/A
CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A
CasePreviousTesting: N/A
PreviouslyPublished: N/A
SupplementalData: N/A
Variant: p.R167W (c.499C>T)
LegacyVariant: N/A
CaseProblemVariantFreeText: Although never given at the time of this publication, the germline mutation is confirmed in this family in later publications (PMID 7987306; 29437867) for this specific family. It can only be assumed this member had the VHL mutation.
ClinVarID: 2218, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/2218/
CAID: N/A
gnomAD: 0.000007954, https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/3-10191506-C-T?dataset=gnomad_r2_1
VariantEvidence: N/A
MutationType: missense_variant;transition
CivicName: R167W (c.499C>T)
MultipleGeneVariants: N/A