NM_000059.4:c.2538A>C

Variant names:

• chr13-32336893-A-C
• rs11571654
• NM_000059.4:c.2538A>C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Benign. Variant got -17 ACMG points: 0P and 17B. BP4_Strong BP6_Very_Strong BP7 BS2

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):​c.2538A>C​(p.Ser846Ser) variant causes a synonymous change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000353 in 1,609,690 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, including 11 homozygotes. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Benign (★★★).

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: 𝑓 0.00021 (0 hom., cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.00037 (11 hom.)
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 synonymous
• Clinical Significance: Benign reviewed by expert panel B:27
• Conservation: PhyloP100: -0.666

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]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Benign. Variant got -17 ACMG points.

• BP4: Computational evidence support a benign effect (BayesDel_noAF=-0.89).
• BP6: Variant 13-32336893-A-C is Benign according to our data. Variant chr13-32336893-A-C is described in ClinVar as [Benign]. Clinvar id is 51302.Status of the report is reviewed_by_expert_panel, 3 stars. Variant chr13-32336893-A-C is described in Lovd as [Benign]. Variant chr13-32336893-A-C is described in Lovd as [Likely_benign].
• BP7: Synonymous conserved (PhyloP=-0.666 with no splicing effect.
• BS2: High Homozygotes in GnomAdExome4 at 11 AD,AR gene

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA2	NM_000059.4	c.2538A>C	p.Ser846Ser	synonymous_variant	Exon 11 of 27	ENST00000380152.8	NP_000050.3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	c.2538A>C	p.Ser846Ser	synonymous_variant	Exon 11 of 27	5	NM_000059.4	ENSP00000369497.3
BRCA2	ENST00000530893.7	c.2169A>C	p.Ser723Ser	synonymous_variant	Exon 11 of 27	1		ENSP00000499438.2
BRCA2	ENST00000614259.2	n.2538A>C		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	Exon 10 of 26	2		ENSP00000506251.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes AF: 0.000210 AC: 32 AN: 152222 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32

Gnomad AFR AF: 0.0000241

Gnomad AMI AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR AF: 0.000196

Gnomad ASJ AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS AF: 0.00

Gnomad SAS AF: 0.00373

Gnomad FIN AF: 0.00

Gnomad MID AF: 0.00

Gnomad NFE AF: 0.000147

Gnomad OTH AF: 0.00

GnomAD3 exomes AF: 0.000629 AC: 155 AN: 246278 Hom.: 3 AF XY: 0.000811 AC XY: 108 AN XY: 133116

Gnomad AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR exome AF: 0.000119

Gnomad ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad SAS exome AF: 0.00472

Gnomad FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad NFE exome AF: 0.000107

Gnomad OTH exome AF: 0.000334

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.000368 AC: 536 AN: 1457350 Hom.: 11 Cov.: 33 AF XY: 0.000513 AC XY: 372 AN XY: 724690

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.000229

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.00512

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.0000594

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.000316

GnomAD4 genome AF: 0.000210 AC: 32 AN: 152340 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32 AF XY: 0.000295 AC XY: 22 AN XY: 74486

Gnomad4 AFR AF: 0.0000241

Gnomad4 AMR AF: 0.000196

Gnomad4 ASJ AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 SAS AF: 0.00373

Gnomad4 FIN AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE AF: 0.000147

Gnomad4 OTH AF: 0.00

Alfa AF: 0.0000882 Hom.: 0

Bravo AF: 0.0000831

Asia WGS AF: 0.00231 AC: 8 AN: 3478

ClinVar

Significance: Benign

Submissions summary: Benign:27

Revision: reviewed by expert panel

Submissions by phenotype

Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2 Benign:7

Oct 28, 2010

Breast Cancer Information Core (BIC) (BRCA2)

Significance: Benign

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Sep 19, 2014

Counsyl

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: literature only

- -

Oct 10, 2014

Genome Diagnostics Laboratory, University Medical Center Utrecht

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Apr 27, 2017

Illumina Laboratory Services, Illumina

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant was observed as part of a predisposition screen in an ostensibly healthy population. A literature search was performed for the gene, cDNA change, and amino acid change (where applicable). Publications were found based on this search. The evidence from the literature, in combination with allele frequency data from public databases where available, was sufficient to determine this variant is unlikely to cause disease. Therefore, this variant is classified as likely benign. -

Sep 21, 2015

Clinical Genetics DNA and cytogenetics Diagnostics Lab, Erasmus MC, Erasmus Medical Center

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Jul 07, 2023

KCCC/NGS Laboratory, Kuwait Cancer Control Center

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Jun 29, 2017

Evidence-based Network for the Interpretation of Germline Mutant Alleles (ENIGMA)

Significance: Benign

Review Status: reviewed by expert panel

Collection Method: curation

Synonymous substitution variant, with low bioinformatic likelihood to alter mRNA splicing (splicing prior 0.02; http://priors.hci.utah.edu/PRIORS/) and frequency 0.0049 (South Asian), derived from ExAC (2014-12-17). -

not provided Benign:5

Apr 07, 2017

Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Mayo Clinic

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

-

Clinical Genetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Jan 01, 2024

CeGaT Center for Human Genetics Tuebingen

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

BRCA2: BP4, BP7, BS2 -

Jul 10, 2024

ARUP Laboratories, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, ARUP Laboratories

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

-

Joint Genome Diagnostic Labs from Nijmegen and Maastricht, Radboudumc and MUMC+

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

not specified Benign:4

Mar 04, 2025

Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

May 15, 2017

PreventionGenetics, part of Exact Sciences

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Feb 12, 2014

GeneDx

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant is considered likely benign or benign based on one or more of the following criteria: it is a conservative change, it occurs at a poorly conserved position in the protein, it is predicted to be benign by multiple in silico algorithms, and/or has population frequency not consistent with disease. -

Apr 18, 2017

Cancer Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Benign:4

Oct 06, 2020

Sema4, Sema4

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: curation

- -

Aug 11, 2014

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. -

Dec 28, 2015

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

May 09, 2018

True Health Diagnostics

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Benign:3

Aug 24, 2015

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

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Variant Summary: The variant of interest causes a synonymous change involving a non-conserved nucleotide with Mutation Taster predicting the variant to be a "polymorphism." 3/5 in silico programs via Alamut predict no significant effect on splicing and the removal of an ESE binding site, SRp40, although these predictions have yet to be functionally assessed. The variant of interest was observed in a large, broad control population, ExAC with an allele frequency of 98/120626 (1/1231, including 2 homozygotes), which exceeds the maximum expected allele frequency for a BRCA2 variant of 1/1333. The variant of interest has been reported in affected individuals via publications, including a reported co-occurrence with another pathogenic BRCA1 variant (5404delG; De Silva et al 2001). In addition, multiple reputable databases/clinical laboratories (BIC, GeneDx, Ambry Genetics, and Invitae) cite the variant with a classification of "likely benign/benign." Therefore, taking all available lines of evidence into consideration, the variant of interest is classified as benign. -

Nov 16, 2021

National Health Laboratory Service, Universitas Academic Hospital and University of the Free State

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Feb 03, 2025

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Breast and/or ovarian cancer Benign:1

May 23, 2023

CHEO Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Fanconi anemia complementation group D1 Benign:1

Apr 27, 2017

Illumina Laboratory Services, Illumina

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant was observed as part of a predisposition screen in an ostensibly healthy population. A literature search was performed for the gene, cDNA change, and amino acid change (where applicable). No publications were found based on this search. Allele frequency data from public databases allowed determination this variant is unlikely to cause disease. Therefore, this variant is classified as likely benign. -

Malignant tumor of breast Benign:1

-

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sinai Health System

Significance: Benign

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.Ser846Ser variant is not expected to have clinical significance because it does not result in a change of amino acid and is not located in a known consensus splice site. Two of five in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) predict a greater than 10% difference in splicing; however, this is not very predictive of pathogenicity. The variant was identified in 5 of 5234 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.001) from individuals or families with breast or ovarian cancer (Alsop 2012, Caux-Moncoutier 2011, Soumittra 2009); however, control chromosomes were not evaluated in these studies, thus the prevalence of this variant in the general population could not be determined. The variant was also identified in dbSNP (ID: rs11571654) “With Benign, untested allele”, BIC (1X with no clinical importance), the ClinVar database (classified as benign by BIC and GeneDx; classification not provided by Invitae), and UMD (11X as an unclassified variant). The variant was identified in the 1000 Genomes Project in 5 chromosomes (frequency: 0.001), HAPMAP-GIH in 2 of 176 chromosomes (frequency: 0.011), Exome Variant Server ESP project in 2 of 8598 European American alleles. The variant was identified in several populations in the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) database (released Oct 20th, 2014), with the following allele counts and frequencies: South Asian (82/16468 alleles, frequency: 0.005), Latino (7/11470 alleles, frequency: 0.0006), European (Non-Finnish) (8/66348 alleles, frequency; 0.0001, and “Other” (1/904 alleles, frequency: 0.001). Notably two of the individuals tested in the ExAC database were homozygous for the variant (one South Asian and one Latino), increasing the likelihood that this variant may not have clinical significance. In addition, Myriad classifies this as a polymorphism (personal communication). In summary, based on the above information, this variant is classified as benign. -

Familial cancer of breast Benign:1

Feb 01, 2025

KCCC/NGS Laboratory, Kuwait Cancer Control Center

Significance: Benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.89
CADD	Benign	0.89
DANN	Benign	0.56

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

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs11571654; hg19: chr13-32911030;