NM_000059.4:c.475+3A>G

Variant names:

• chr13-32326153-A-G
• rs81002795
• NM_000059.4:c.475+3A>G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points: 4P and 0B. PM2 PP3 PP5

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):​c.475+3A>G variant causes a splice region, intron 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. 3/3 splice prediction tools predicting alterations to normal splicing. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars).

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 33)
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 splice_region, intron
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 0.9969
• Clinical Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications P:6 U:2
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 1.81
• Publications: 1 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 4 ACMG points.

• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP3: Splicing predictors support a deleterious effect. Scorers claiming Pathogenic: dbscSNV1_ADA, dbscSNV1_RF, max_spliceai. No scorers claiming Uncertain. No scorers claiming Benign.
• PP5: Variant 13-32326153-A-G is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr13-32326153-A-G is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 51710.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA2	NM_000059.4	c.475+3A>G		splice_region_variant, intron_variant	Intron 5 of 26	ENST00000380152.8	NP_000050.3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	c.475+3A>G		splice_region_variant, intron_variant	Intron 5 of 26	5	NM_000059.4	ENSP00000369497.3
BRCA2	ENST00000530893.7	c.106+3A>G		splice_region_variant, intron_variant	Intron 5 of 26	1		ENSP00000499438.2
BRCA2	ENST00000614259.2	n.475+3A>G		splice_region_variant, intron_variant	Intron 4 of 25	2		ENSP00000506251.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 33

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 31

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 33

Alfa AF: 0.00 Hom.: 0

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:6 Uncertain:2

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Submissions by phenotype

Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2 Pathogenic:3 Uncertain:1

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Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Christian Medical College

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Jun 27, 2025

Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant is considered likely pathogenic. mRNA analysis has demonstrated abnormal mRNA splicing occurs [Myriad internal data; PMID: 28905878, 9971877]. -

Oct 02, 2015

Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA), c/o University of Cambridge

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique du Cancer, Centre François Baclesse

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:2

Feb 04, 2020

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant causes an A to G nucleotide substitution at the +3 position of intron 5 in the BRCA2 gene. Analysis of carrier RNA found the skipping of exon 5 that is predicted to create a premature translation termination and is expected to produce an absent or non-functional protein product (PMID: 9971877, 28905878). This variant has been observed in at least three individuals affected with breast cancer (Color Internal database and an external clinical laboratory) and an individual affected with breast and/or ovarian cancer (PMID: 28905878, Universal Mutation Database). This variant also has been reported in a family affected with three cases of breast cancer and one member with breast and ovarian cancer (PMID: 9971877, 24156927). This variant has not been identified in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Loss of BRCA2 function is a known mechanism of disease (clinicalgenome.org). Based on the available evidence, this variant is classified as Likely Pathogenic. -

Aug 09, 2024

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The c.475+3A>G intronic variant results from an A to G substitution 3 nucleotides after coding exon 4 in the BRCA2 gene. This alteration was identified in a large, worldwide study of BRCA1/2 mutation positive families (Rebbeck TR et al. Hum Mutat, 2018 May;39:593-620), and was also reported in another cohort of individuals with a personal or family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer (Tea MK et al. Maturitas, 2014 Jan;77:68-72). This nucleotide position is well conserved in available vertebrate species. In silico splice site analysis predicts that this alteration will weaken the native splice donor site. RNA studies have demonstrated that this alteration results in abnormal splicing in the set of samples tested (Wagner TM et al. Hum Mol Genet, 1999 Mar;8:413-23; Davy G et al. Eur J Hum Genet, 2017 Oct;25:1147-1154; Ambry internal data). This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Based on the majority of available evidence to date, this variant is likely to be pathogenic. -

Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Pathogenic:1

Aug 04, 2024

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change falls in intron 5 of the BRCA2 gene. It does not directly change the encoded amino acid sequence of the BRCA2 protein. RNA analysis indicates that this variant induces altered splicing and may result in an absent or altered protein product. This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This variant has been observed in individual(s) with BRCA2-related conditions (PMID: 9971877, 24156927). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 51710). Variants that disrupt the consensus splice site are a relatively common cause of aberrant splicing (PMID: 17576681, 9536098). Studies have shown that this variant alters mRNA splicing and is expected to lead to the loss of protein expression (PMID: 9971877, 28905878, 30883759; Invitae). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -

not provided Uncertain:1

Jan 27, 2020

GeneDx

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Not observed in large population cohorts (Lek et al., 2016); In-silico analysis, which includes splice predictors and evolutionary conservation, is inconclusive as to whether the variant alters gene splicing. In the absence of RNA/functional studies, the actual effect of this sequence change is unknown.; This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 25525159, 24156927, 9971877, 22984553, 28905878) -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.41
CADD	Benign	17
DANN	Benign	0.83
PhyloP100		1.8
Mutation Taster		=1/99	disease causing (ClinVar)

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.73
Splicevardb		3.0
SpliceAI score (max)		0.68		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_DL_spliceai		0.68		Position offset: -3

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs81002795; hg19: chr13-32900290;