13-32396938-T-G

Variant names:

• chr13-32396938-T-G
• rs80359225
• NM_000059.4:c.9542T>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.9542T>G​(p.Met3181Arg) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000342 in 1,461,772 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. 12/20 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. M3181L) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 33)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000034 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications U:7 B:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 0.594
• Publications: 11 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=0.24277478).

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA2	NM_000059.4	c.9542T>G	p.Met3181Arg	missense_variant	Exon 26 of 27	ENST00000380152.8	NP_000050.3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	c.9542T>G	p.Met3181Arg	missense_variant	Exon 26 of 27	5	NM_000059.4	ENSP00000369497.3
BRCA2	ENST00000530893.7	c.9173T>G	p.Met3058Arg	missense_variant	Exon 26 of 27	1		ENSP00000499438.2
BRCA2	ENST00000614259.2	n.*1600T>G		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	Exon 25 of 26	2		ENSP00000506251.1
BRCA2	ENST00000614259.2	n.*1600T>G		3_prime_UTR_variant	Exon 25 of 26	2		ENSP00000506251.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 33

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000342 AC: 5 AN: 1461772 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00000275 AC XY: 2 AN XY: 727194

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33478

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 44722

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26132

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39678

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86258

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53412

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

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00000450 AC: 5 AN: 1111940

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 60386

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 33

Alfa AF: 0.00 Hom.: 0

Bravo AF: 0.0000189

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Uncertain:7 Benign:1

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Submissions by phenotype

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:1 Benign:1

Mar 17, 2025

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This missense variant replaces methionine with arginine at codon 3181 of the BRCA2 protein. Computational prediction is inconclusive regarding the impact of this variant on protein structure and function. To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has been reported in an individual affected with ovarian cancer (PMID: 30040829). This variant has been detected in a breast cancer case-control meta-analysis in 1/60466 cases and 1/53461 unaffected individuals (PMID: 33471991; Leiden Open Variation Database DB-ID BRCA2_000468). Multifactorial analyses have reported likelihood ratios (LR) reaching a combined LR = 1.10 for co-occurrence with a pathogenic variant and personal and family history for one carrier (PMID: 31131967, 31853058). This variant has not been identified 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. -

May 01, 2025

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. -

not specified Uncertain:1

Jan 15, 2019

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

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Variant summary: BRCA2 c.9542T>G (p.Met3181Arg) results in a non-conservative amino acid change located in the BRCA2, OB3 domain of the encoded protein sequence. Four of five in-silico tools predict a benign effect of the variant on protein function. The variant was absent in 246166 control chromosomes (gnomAD). The available data on variant occurrences in the general population are insufficient to allow any conclusion about variant significance. c.9542T>G has been reported in the literature in an individual affected with Ovarian Cancer (Kowalik_2018). This report does not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. Three ClinVar submissions from clinical diagnostic laboratories (evaluation after 2014) cite the variant as uncertain significance. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as uncertain significance. -

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

May 29, 2002

Breast Cancer Information Core (BIC) (BRCA2)

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

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BRCA2-related cancer predisposition Uncertain:1

May 30, 2024

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 methionine with arginine at codon 3181 of the BRCA2 protein. Computational prediction is inconclusive regarding the impact of this variant on protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold 0.5 < inconclusive < 0.7, PMID: 27666373). To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has been reported in an individual affected with ovarian cancer (PMID: 30040829). In a large breast cancer case-control study conducted by the BRIDGES consortium, this variant was reported in 1/60466 cases and 1/53461 unaffected controls (PMID: 33471991; Leiden Open Variation Database DB-ID BRCA2_000468). This variant has been reported in a multifactorial analysis with co-occurrence and family history likelihood ratios for pathogenicity of 1.025 and 3.230, respectively (PMID: 31131967). This variant has not been identified 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. -

not provided Uncertain:1

Jul 07, 2022

GeneDx

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Not observed in large population cohorts (gnomAD); In silico analysis, which includes protein predictors and evolutionary conservation, supports that this variant does not alter protein structure/function; Has not been previously published as pathogenic or benign to our knowledge; Also known as 9770T>G; This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 12228710, 19043619) -

Familial cancer of breast Uncertain:1

Oct 14, 2023

Baylor Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Uncertain:1

Jun 05, 2024

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces methionine, which is neutral and non-polar, with arginine, which is basic and polar, at codon 3181 of the BRCA2 protein (p.Met3181Arg). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with ovarian cancer (PMID: 30040829). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 52867). Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) performed at Invitae 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 v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Benign	0.076
BayesDel_addAF	Uncertain	0.13	D
BayesDel_noAF	Uncertain	-0.050
CADD	Benign	15
DANN	Benign	0.80
Eigen	Benign	-0.74
Eigen_PC	Benign	-0.68
FATHMM_MKL	Benign	0.29	N
M_CAP	Benign	0.083	D
MetaRNN	Benign	0.24	T;T
MetaSVM	Benign	-0.92	T
PhyloP100		0.59
PrimateAI	Benign	0.32	T
PROVEAN	Benign	-0.95	N;N
REVEL	Uncertain	0.51
Sift	Benign	0.20	T;T
Sift4G	Benign	0.23	T;T
Vest4		0.32
MutPred		0.68		Gain of solvent accessibility (P = 0.0584);Gain of solvent accessibility (P = 0.0584);
MVP		0.88
MPC		0.083
ClinPred		0.21	T
GERP RS		0.33
gMVP		0.47
Mutation Taster		=94/6	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: rs80359225; hg19: chr13-32971075;