NM_000059.4:c.7977-1G>T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic.
+12 Pathogenic
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The variant received 12 classification points (ACGS-UK Somatic Oncogenicity v2025). O1_ModerateO2_Very_StrongO3_Moderate

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):c.7977-1G>T variant causes a splice acceptor, intron change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant is predicted to lead to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). The gene BRCA2 is a tumor suppressor gene (CancerMine: 139 TSG, 7 oncogene, 19 driver citations). The gene BRCA2 is a cancer driver gene (CancerMine: 139 TSG, 7 oncogene, 19 driver citations). The variant allele was found at a cumulative frequency of 0.00000658 (AC=1) in the gnomAD database across 152,072 control chromosomes (no homozygotes observed). The grpmax filtering allele frequency (95% CI) is 0.000192. In-silico predictor (BayesDel (noAF)) classifies this variant as likely damaging/oncogenic. The affected nucleotide is highly conserved across species (PhyloP 100-way vertebrate score: 9.52). Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Pathogenic/Likely Pathogenic (★★). ClinVar reports functional evidence for this variant: "SCV000253757: Studies have shown that disruption of this splice site alters mRNA splicing and is expected to lead to the loss of protein expression (PMID:16211554, 22006311, 28339459)." and additional evidence is available in ClinVar.

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.0000066 ( 0 hom., cov: 32)

Consequence

BRCA2
NM_000059.4 splice_acceptor, intron

Scores

6
1
Splicing: ADA: 1.000
2

Clinical Significance

Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:4

Conservation

PhyloP100: 9.52

Publications

17 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
BRCA2 (HGNC:1101): (BRCA2 DNA repair associated) The product of this gene in involved in maintenance of genome stability. It is involved in double-strand break repair pathways during mitotic and meiotic homologous recombination and functions in protecting DNA replication forks. The encoded protein contains sites for interactions with PALB2 and EMSY and an N-terminal DNA binding domain. It also contains a RAD51 binding domain with multiple components. It has multiple BRC repeats, an alpha helix domain, oligonucleotide binding folds, and a tower-like domain. It has a nuclear localization signal and a phosphorylation site for cyclin-dependent kinase. The C-terminus of the protein can bind single-stranded and double-stranded DNA. The product of this gene interacts with multiple proteins, including RAD51. It is involved in recruiting RAD51 filaments to DNA double-strand break sites and also in cytoplasmic division. It also acts as a tumor suppressor. Mutations in this gene or decreased expression have been implicated in multiple tumor types, including breast, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate and other cancers. [provided by RefSeq, May 2026]
BRCA2 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • BRCA2-related cancer predisposition
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: ClinGen
  • breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Genomics England PanelApp, Ambry Genetics
  • Fanconi anemia complementation group D1
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: G2P, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen, Ambry Genetics
  • 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

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new If you want to explore the variant's impact on the transcript NM_000059.4, check out the Mutation Effect Viewer. This is especially useful for frameshift variants or if you want to visualize the effect of exon loss / intron retention.

Classification according to ACGS-UK Somatic Oncogenicity v2025

Classification was made for transcript:

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 12 points.

O1Established oncogenic variant
TSG gene: ClinVar germline P/LP ★★+ — Moderate (O1); O1 contributing sources (2.0 pts): ClinVar germline P/LP in TSG (★★)
O2Null variant in tumour suppressor gene
Splice-site frameshift, NMD predicted, LoF disease mechanism — O2 very strong (+8); Use caution: splice variant may lead to in-frame exon skipping; Use caution: splice variant may lead to expression of a well-known alternative isoform; Use caution in the presence of multiple transcripts; Gene confirmed as TSG in CancerMine (TSG: 139 citations, oncogene: 7 citations, driver: 19 citations).; Canonical ±1/2 splice-site variant in TSG. NMD predicted: true. LoF mechanism: true. Frameshift result: true. In-frame result: false. Cryptic site detected: false (offset: n/a bp, in-frame: false).
O3Absent or very rare in population
Absent or extremely rare in gnomAD (AC ≤ 2) — O3 moderate; GnomAD: AF = 0.000192, AC = 1 — absent/extremely rare (O3 moderate [+2])

Variant Effect in Transcripts

Automated classification analysis was done for transcript: NM_000059.4. You can select a different transcript below to see updated classification assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

BRCA2 NM_000059.4
MANE Select
HGVSc / HGVSpc.7977-1G>T
Exon rankIntron 17 of 26
splice_acceptorintron
Prot: NP_000050.3UniProt: A0A7P0T9D7P51587
BRCA2 NM_001432077.1
HGVSc / HGVSpc.7977-1G>T
Exon rankIntron 17 of 26
splice_acceptorintron
Prot: NP_001419006.1UniProt: A0A7P0T9D7P51587
BRCA2 NM_001406720.1
HGVSc / HGVSpc.7977-1G>T
Exon rankIntron 17 of 26
splice_acceptorintron
Prot: NP_001393649.1UniProt: A0A8V8TPZ2

Ensembl Transcripts

BRCA2 ENST00000380152.8
TSL:5MANE Select
HGVSc / HGVSpc.7977-1G>T
Exon rankIntron 17 of 26
splice_acceptorintron
Prot: ENSP00000369497.3UniProt: P51587
BRCA2 ENST00000544455.6
TSL:1
HGVSc / HGVSpc.7977-1G>T
Exon rankIntron 17 of 26
splice_acceptorintron
Prot: ENSP00000439902.1UniProt: P51587
BRCA2 ENST00000530893.7
TSL:1
HGVSc / HGVSpc.7608-1G>T
Exon rankIntron 17 of 26
splice_acceptorintron
Prot: ENSP00000499438.2UniProt: A0A590UJI7

Frequencies

Allele frequencies (AF), counts (AC/AN), homozygotes and coverage

Common (AF > 0.05 / Hom > 5)
Rare (AF ≤ 0.0001 / Hom ≤ 1)
Global population databases 4 sources
GnomAD3 genomes
AF: 0.00000658
AC:1
Hom:0
AN:152072
Cov:32
GnomAD4 exome
Cov:31
GnomAD4 genome
AF: 0.00000658
AC:1
Hom:0
AN:152072
Cov:32
ALFA (dbGaP/dbSNP Allele Frequency Aggregator)
AF: 0.00
AC:0
Hom:0
AN:36924
Showing 4 sources

ClinVar

ClinVar submissions
Significance:Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic
Revision:criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
View on ClinVar
Pathogenic
VUS
Benign
Condition
2
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Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome (2)
1
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Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2 (1)
1
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Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome (1)

Computational Scores

AlphaGenome AVI
Pathogenic32
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic0.39D
BayesDel_noAF
Pathogenic0.33
CADD
Pathogenic32
DANN
Uncertain1.0
Eigen
Pathogenic1.2
Eigen_PC
Pathogenic1.0
FATHMM_MKL
Pathogenic0.99D
GPN-Star LLR
N/A-10
GPN-Star score
N/A10
Mutation Taster
N/A0/100disease causing (ClinVar)
PhyloP100
Pathogenic9.5
Showing 12 of 12 scores

Splicing Scores

dbscSNV1_ADA
Pathogenic1.0
dbscSNV1_RF
Pathogenic0.94
DS_AL_spliceai
Pathogenic0.98
Position offset: 1
Pangolin (max)
Pathogenic0.91
Pangolin gain
Uncertain0.31
Position offset: 22
Pangolin loss
Pathogenic0.91
Position offset: 1
SpliceAI score (max)
Pathogenic0.98
Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
Showing 7 of 7 scores

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

MaxEntScan Visualizer can be used to analyze the impact of this mutation on the neighboring sequence.

MaveDB functional evidence

MaveDB is a public repository of laboratory assays that test the effect of thousands of variants at once — treat this as supporting research data and interpret it with great caution; it is not a clinical classification.

No MaveDB functional evidence found for this variant.

Publications

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