NM_000059.4:c.6842-2A>G

Variant names:

• chr13-32344556-A-G
• rs1555285132
• NM_000059.4:c.6842-2A>G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points: 4P and 0B. PVS1_Moderate PM2

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):​c.6842-2A>G variant causes a splice acceptor, intron change. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. 3/3 splice prediction tools predicting alterations to normal splicing. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★★).

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0 (0 hom.)
  • Failed GnomAD Quality Control
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 splice_acceptor, intron
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 1.000
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:1 U:2
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 6.61
• 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.

• PVS1: Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, product NOT destroyed by NMD, known LOF gene, truncates exone, which is 0.009359462 fraction of the gene. Cryptic splice site detected, with MaxEntScore 3.9, offset of 43, new splice context is: ttattaaatgaatttgacAGgat. Cryptic site results in frameshift change. If cryptic site found is not functional and variant results in exon loss, it results in inframe change.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA2	NM_000059.4	c.6842-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant, intron_variant	Intron 11 of 26	ENST00000380152.8	NP_000050.3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	c.6842-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant, intron_variant	Intron 11 of 26	5	NM_000059.4	ENSP00000369497.3
BRCA2	ENST00000530893.7	c.6473-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant, intron_variant	Intron 11 of 26	1		ENSP00000499438.2
BRCA2	ENST00000614259.2	n.6842-2A>G		splice_acceptor_variant, intron_variant	Intron 10 of 25	2		ENSP00000506251.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome Data not reliable, filtered out with message: AC0 AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 1353336 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 24 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 678264

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 30566

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 43132

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 25178

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39046

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 82102

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 52882

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5464

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 1018318

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 56648

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:1 Uncertain:2

Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Submissions by phenotype

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:2

Jun 10, 2020

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant causes an A to G nucleotide substitution at the -2 position of intron 11 of the BRCA2 gene. This variant has not been reported in individuals affected with hereditary cancer in the literature although an exon 12 deletion has been reported in a breast/ovarian cancer patient (PMID: 30555256). Several lines of evidence suggest that deletion of exon 12 is tolerated in normal tissues. Alternative splicing of exon 12 was reported in multiple control samples (PMID: 10363970, 15026808, 19795481, 32046981, 32133419). A functional study reported that a similar canonical acceptor site variant (6842-1G>A with demonstrated in exon 12 skipping) retained protein function, as assayed by repair activity and BRCA2-null cell complementation studies, and failed to segregate with breast cancer in a family (PMID: 32046981). 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. -

Jan 28, 2021

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The c.6842-2A>G intronic variant results from an A to G substitution two nucleotides upstream from coding exon 11 in the BRCA2 gene. Alterations that disrupt the canonical splice site are expected to cause aberrant splicing, resulting in an abnormal protein or a transcript that is subject to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. However, RNA studies have demonstrated that this alteration as well as close match alterations at this donor site result in an increase in a transcript predicted to lead to a protein with an in-frame deletion of coding exon 11 (also known as exon 12 in the literature; Ambry internal data; Meulemans L et al. Cancer Res, 2020 04;80:1374-1386). This exon may be clinically dispensable based on partially retained homology directed DNA repair activity (Meulemans L et al. Cancer Res, 2020 04;80:1374-1386). In addition, the literature describes a patient with a splice variant causing coding exon 11 skipping variant in trans with a truncating BRCA2 variant in an individual without apparent Fanconi Anemia; although the degree of exon skipping is uncertain (Li L et al. Hum. Mutat., 2009 Nov;30:1543-50; Meulemans L et al. Cancer Res, 2020 04;80:1374-1386). Thus, the clinical impact of of this variant and its resulting protein cannot be predicted. Since supporting evidence is limited at this time, the clinical significance of this alteration remains unclear. -

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

Jan 18, 2017

Human Genome Sequencing Center Clinical Lab, Baylor College of Medicine

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: flagged submission

Collection Method: clinical testing

This c.6842-2A>G variant has not previously been reported in public databases, nor been observed in our patient cohort. This variant affects the invariant acceptor splice site of intron 11. While not validated for clinical use, one computer-based algorithm predicts this variant to activate a cryptic splice site within exon 12 at position c.6843_6844GA, which would result in the lost of nucleotide c.6842 to c.6844 and an inframe glycine deletion at position 2281 . It is thus interpreted as a likely pathogenic variant. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.25	D
BayesDel_noAF	Uncertain	0.12
CADD	Pathogenic	29
DANN	Uncertain	0.99
Eigen	Pathogenic	1.0
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.84
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.99	D
PhyloP100		6.6
GERP RS		5.0
Mutation Taster		=0/100	disease causing (ClinVar)

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.93
SpliceAI score (max)		0.98		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_AL_spliceai		0.98		Position offset: 2

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs1555285132; hg19: chr13-32918693;