Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points: 6P and 2B. PM1PM2PM5BP4BP6
The NM_007294.4(BRCA1):c.34C>G(p.Gln12Glu) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. In-silico tool predicts 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. Q12H) has been classified as Uncertain significance.
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
Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points.
PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 6 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 18 benign, 87 uncertain in NM_007294.4
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PM5
Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr17-43124062-T-G is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 867703.
BP4
Computational evidence support a benign effect (MetaRNN=0.38930792).
BP6
Variant 17-43124063-G-C is Benign according to our data. Variant chr17-43124063-G-C is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 647021.
Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndromeUncertain:1
Sep 06, 2018
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing
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. Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function are either unavailable or do not agree on the potential impact of this missense change (SIFT: "Tolerated"; PolyPhen-2: "Probably Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). This variant has been reported in individuals in the Leiden Open-source Variation Database (PMID: 21520333). This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This sequence change replaces glutamine with glutamic acid at codon 12 of the BRCA1 protein (p.Gln12Glu). The glutamine residue is moderately conserved and there is a small physicochemical difference between glutamine and glutamic acid. -
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