17-43099807-T-C

Variant names:

• chr17-43099807-T-C
• rs1555594863
• NM_007294.4:c.515A>G

Variant summary

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

The NM_007294.4(BRCA1):​c.515A>G​(p.Gln172Arg) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000205 in 1,461,062 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. Q172K) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 31)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000021 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: BRCA1 NM_007294.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts U:4
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 0.741
• Publications: 2 publications found

Genes affected

BRCA1 (HGNC:1100): (BRCA1 DNA repair associated) This gene encodes a 190 kD nuclear phosphoprotein that plays a role in maintaining genomic stability, and it also acts as a tumor suppressor. The BRCA1 gene contains 22 exons spanning about 110 kb of DNA. The encoded protein combines with other tumor suppressors, DNA damage sensors, and signal transducers to form a large multi-subunit protein complex known as the BRCA1-associated genome surveillance complex (BASC). This gene product associates with RNA polymerase II, and through the C-terminal domain, also interacts with histone deacetylase complexes. This protein thus plays a role in transcription, DNA repair of double-stranded breaks, and recombination. Mutations in this gene are responsible for approximately 40% of inherited breast cancers and more than 80% of inherited breast and ovarian cancers. Alternative splicing plays a role in modulating the subcellular localization and physiological function of this gene. Many alternatively spliced transcript variants, some of which are disease-associated mutations, have been described for this gene, but the full-length natures of only some of these variants has been described. A related pseudogene, which is also located on chromosome 17, has been identified. [provided by RefSeq, May 2020]

BRCA1 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 1

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

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, MODERATE, LIMITED Submitted by: G2P, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen, Ambry Genetics
• pancreatic cancer, susceptibility to, 4

  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

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=0.18177265).

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA1	NM_007294.4	c.515A>G	p.Gln172Arg	missense_variant	Exon 7 of 23	ENST00000357654.9	NP_009225.1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA1	ENST00000357654.9	c.515A>G	p.Gln172Arg	missense_variant	Exon 7 of 23	1	NM_007294.4	ENSP00000350283.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 31

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000205 AC: 3 AN: 1461062 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00000138 AC XY: 1 AN XY: 726930

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33450

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 44718

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26126

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39684

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86244

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53410

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

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00000180 AC: 2 AN: 1111298

Other (OTH) AF: 0.0000166 AC: 1 AN: 60366

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 31

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:4

Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Submissions by phenotype

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

Mar 29, 2024

Baylor Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Malignant tumor of breast Uncertain:1

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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sinai Health System

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

The BRCA1 p.Gln172Arg variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in the dbSNP, ClinVar, Clinvitae, GeneInsight-COGR, COSMIC, MutDB, LOVD 3.0, UMD-LSDB, BIC Database, ARUP Laboratories, Zhejiang Colon Cancer Database, databases. The variant was not identified in the 1000 Genomes Project, the NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project or the Exome Aggregation Consortium (August 8th 2016) control databases. The p.Gln172Arg residue is not conserved in mammals and four out of five computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) do not suggest a high likelihood of impact to the protein; however, 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, HumanSpliceFinder) do not predict a difference in splicing. The variant is located with the Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (BRCA1) functional domain(s) increasing the likelihood that it may have clinical significance. 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. -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:1

Apr 12, 2024

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.Q172R variant (also known as c.515A>G), located in coding exon 6 of the BRCA1 gene, results from an A to G substitution at nucleotide position 515. The glutamine at codon 172 is replaced by arginine, an amino acid with highly similar properties. This variant was observed in 1/3251 individuals who met eligibility criteria for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (Lerner-Ellis J et al. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol, 2021 Mar;147:871-879). This amino acid position is well conserved in available vertebrate species. In addition, this alteration is predicted to be deleterious by in silico analysis. Since supporting evidence is limited at this time, the clinical significance of this alteration remains unclear. -

Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Uncertain:1

Jan 19, 2025

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces glutamine, which is neutral and polar, with arginine, which is basic and polar, at codon 172 of the BRCA1 protein (p.Gln172Arg). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with BRCA1-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 482899). 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 BRCA1 protein function with a negative predictive value of 80%. 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	0.097
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.29	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.18
CADD	Benign	13
DANN	Uncertain	0.99
DEOGEN2	Benign	0.13	.;T;.;.;.;.;.;T;.;T;.;T;T;.;T;T
Eigen	Benign	-0.34
Eigen_PC	Benign	-0.43
FATHMM_MKL	Benign	0.040	N
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.93	D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.26	D
MetaRNN	Benign	0.18	T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T;T
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.39	D
MutationAssessor	Uncertain	2.5	M;M;M;M;.;M;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.
PhyloP100		0.74
PrimateAI	Benign	0.33	T
PROVEAN	Benign	-0.76	N;N;N;N;N;N;N;N;N;N;N;.;N;N;N;N
REVEL	Uncertain	0.57
Sift	Benign	0.93	T;D;D;T;D;T;D;T;T;D;D;.;D;D;D;T
Sift4G	Uncertain	0.037	D;T;T;T;T;T;.;.;T;.;D;.;D;.;D;.
Polyphen		1.0, 0.96, 0.99, 0.12	.;D;.;.;.;D;.;D;.;.;B;.;.;.;.;.
Vest4		0.38
MutPred		0.25		Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);.;Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);.;.;.;.;Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);.;Gain of MoRF binding (P = 0.0363);.;
MVP		0.91
MPC		0.39
ClinPred		0.32	T
GERP RS		2.9
Varity_R		0.046
gMVP		0.25

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: rs1555594863; hg19: chr17-41251824;