13-32336744-A-G

Variant names:

• chr13-32336744-A-G
• rs587782737
• NM_000059.4:c.2389A>G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 0 ACMG points: 2P and 2B. PM2 BP4_Moderate

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):​c.2389A>G​(p.Lys797Glu) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.0000031 in 1,613,860 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. 16/20 in silico tools predict a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. K797R) has been classified as Likely benign.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: 𝑓 0.000020 (0 hom., cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000014 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications U:9 B:2
• Conservation: PhyloP100: -0.112
• Publications: 8 publications found

Genes affected

BRCA2 (HGNC:1101): (BRCA2 DNA repair associated) Inherited mutations in BRCA1 and this gene, BRCA2, confer increased lifetime risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer. Both BRCA1 and BRCA2 are involved in maintenance of genome stability, specifically the homologous recombination pathway for double-strand DNA repair. The largest exon in both genes is exon 11, which harbors the most important and frequent mutations in breast cancer patients. The BRCA2 gene was found on chromosome 13q12.3 in human. The BRCA2 protein contains several copies of a 70 aa motif called the BRC motif, and these motifs mediate binding to the RAD51 recombinase which functions in DNA repair. BRCA2 is considered a tumor suppressor gene, as tumors with BRCA2 mutations generally exhibit loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the wild-type allele. [provided by RefSeq, May 2020]

BRCA2 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, Genomics England PanelApp, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen
• Fanconi anemia complementation group D1

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Ambry Genetics, ClinGen, G2P
• pancreatic cancer, susceptibility to, 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• sarcoma

  Inheritance: AD Classification: MODERATE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

  Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
• Fanconi anemia

  Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
• medulloblastoma

  Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: Ambry Genetics

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 0 ACMG points.

• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• BP4: Computational evidence support a benign effect (MetaRNN=0.08733255).

Variant Effect in Transcripts

ACMG analysis was done for transcript: NM_000059.4. You can select a different transcript below to see updated ACMG assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

Selected	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	BRCA2	NM_000059.4	MANE Select	c.2389A>G	p.Lys797Glu	missense	Exon 11 of 27	NP_000050.3
	BRCA2	NM_001432077.1		c.2389A>G	p.Lys797Glu	missense	Exon 11 of 27	NP_001419006.1
	BRCA2	NM_001406720.1		c.2389A>G	p.Lys797Glu	missense	Exon 11 of 27	NP_001393649.1

Ensembl Transcripts

Selected	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	TSL:5 MANE Select	c.2389A>G	p.Lys797Glu	missense	Exon 11 of 27	ENSP00000369497.3
	BRCA2	ENST00000544455.6	TSL:1	c.2389A>G	p.Lys797Glu	missense	Exon 11 of 27	ENSP00000439902.1
	BRCA2	ENST00000530893.7	TSL:1	c.2020A>G	p.Lys674Glu	missense	Exon 11 of 27	ENSP00000499438.2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes AF: 0.0000197 AC: 3 AN: 152230 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32

Gnomad AFR AF: 0.0000482

Gnomad AMI AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR AF: 0.0000654

Gnomad ASJ AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS AF: 0.00

Gnomad SAS AF: 0.00

Gnomad FIN AF: 0.00

Gnomad MID AF: 0.00

Gnomad NFE AF: 0.00

Gnomad OTH AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000137 AC: 2 AN: 1461630 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 33 AF XY: 0.00000138 AC XY: 1 AN XY: 727106

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33462

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 44678

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26122

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39676

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86220

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53396

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5766

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00000180 AC: 2 AN: 1111926

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 60384

GnomAD4 genome AF: 0.0000197 AC: 3 AN: 152230 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32 AF XY: 0.0000134 AC XY: 1 AN XY: 74362

African (AFR) AF: 0.0000482 AC: 2 AN: 41470

American (AMR) AF: 0.0000654 AC: 1 AN: 15280

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 3468

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5194

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 4834

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 10622

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 316

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 68040

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 2094

Alfa AF: 0.00 Hom.: 0

Bravo AF: 0.00000378

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Uncertain:9 Benign:2

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Submissions by phenotype

not provided Uncertain:4

Aug 27, 2025

GeneDx

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Not observed at significant frequency in large population cohorts (gnomAD); In silico analysis suggests that this missense variant does not alter protein structure/function; Observed in individuals with breast cancer (PMID: 29088781); Also known as 2617A>G; This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 31853058, 32377563, 29884841, 29088781)

Jan 30, 2019

Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute San Juan Capistrano

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sinai Health System

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

The BRCA2 p.Lys797Glu variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in the LOVD 3.0 or UMD LSDB databases. The variant was identified in dSNP (rs587782737) as "With Uncertain significance allele", and in ClinVar (classified as uncertain significance by Invitae, and COGR; as likely benign by Ambry Genetics). The variant was identified in control databases in 1 of 30976 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.00003 (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the Other population in 1 of 982 chromosomes (freq: 0.001), while the variant was not observed in the European, African, Latino, Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian, Finnish, and South Asian populations. The p.Lys797 residue is not conserved in mammals, and computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) do not suggest a high likelihood of impact to the protein; this information is not predictive enough to rule out pathogenicity. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer) do not predict a difference in splicing. In summary, based on the above information, the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time. This variant is classified as a variant of uncertain significance.

Oct 15, 2020

ARUP Laboratories, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, ARUP Laboratories

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The BRCA2 c.2389A>G; p.Lys797Glu variant (rs587782737), to our knowledge, is not reported in the medical literature but is reported in ClinVar (Variation ID: 188307). This variant is found on a single chromosome (1/31410 alleles) in the Genome Aggregation Database. The lysine at codon 797 is moderately conserved, and computational analyses predict that this variant is neutral (REVEL: 0.122). However, due to limited information, the clinical significance of the p.Lys797Glu variant is uncertain at this time.

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:1 Benign:2

May 04, 2023

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This missense variant replaces lysine with glutamic acid at codon 797 of the BRCA2 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may not impact protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold <= 0.5, PMID: 27666373). To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has not been reported in individuals affected with BRCA2-related disorders in the literature. This variant has been identified in 1/31410 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.

Oct 29, 2018

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This alteration is classified as likely benign based on a combination of the following: seen in unaffected individuals, population frequency, intact protein function, lack of segregation with disease, co-occurrence, RNA analysis, in silico models, amino acid conservation, lack of disease association in case-control studies, and/or the mechanism of disease or impacted region is inconsistent with a known cause of pathogenicity.

Mar 23, 2023

University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: curation

Missense variant in a coldspot region where missense variants are very unlikely to be pathogenic (PMID:31911673).

not specified Uncertain:2

Apr 20, 2017

Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Nov 17, 2021

Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2 Uncertain:1

Dec 07, 2023

All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This missense variant replaces lysine with glutamic acid at codon 797 of the BRCA2 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may not impact protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold <= 0.5, PMID: 27666373). To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has not been reported in individuals affected with BRCA2-related disorders in the literature. This variant has been identified in 1/31410 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.

Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Uncertain:1

Jan 26, 2025

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces lysine, which is basic and polar, with glutamic acid, which is acidic and polar, at codon 797 of the BRCA2 protein (p.Lys797Glu). This variant is present in population databases (rs587782737, gnomAD no frequency). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with BRCA2-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 188307). Invitae Evidence Modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) indicates that this missense variant is not expected to disrupt BRCA2 protein function with a negative predictive value of 95%. In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.9

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Benign	0.064
BayesDel_addAF	Benign	-0.12	T
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.42
CADD	Benign	0.27
DANN	Benign	0.37
Eigen	Benign	-1.3
Eigen_PC	Benign	-1.4
FATHMM_MKL	Benign	0.039	N
M_CAP	Benign	0.046	D
MetaRNN	Benign	0.087	T
MetaSVM	Benign	-0.98	T
PhyloP100		-0.11
PrimateAI	Benign	0.31	T
PROVEAN	Benign	-2.1	N
REVEL	Benign	0.12
Sift	Benign	0.24	T
Sift4G	Benign	0.84	T
Vest4		0.16
MutPred		0.22		Loss of ubiquitination at K797 (P = 0.0127)
MVP		0.74
MPC		0.023
ClinPred		0.041	T
GERP RS		-1.6
gMVP		0.15
Mutation Taster		=92/8	polymorphism

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.0		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs587782737; hg19: chr13-32910881;