NM_007194.4:c.422A>C

Variant names:

• chr22-28725265-T-G
• rs786203192
• NM_007194.4:c.422A>C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 4 ACMG points: 5P and 1B. PM1 PM2 PP3 BS2_Supporting

The NM_007194.4(CHEK2):​c.422A>C​(p.Lys141Thr) variant causes a missense change. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000342 in 1,461,824 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. K141E) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000034 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: CHEK2 NM_007194.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:1 U:11
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 6.12
• Publications: 6 publications found

Genes affected

CHEK2 (HGNC:16627): (checkpoint kinase 2) In response to DNA damage and replication blocks, cell cycle progression is halted through the control of critical cell cycle regulators. The protein encoded by this gene is a cell cycle checkpoint regulator and putative tumor suppressor. It contains a forkhead-associated protein interaction domain essential for activation in response to DNA damage and is rapidly phosphorylated in response to replication blocks and DNA damage. When activated, the encoded protein is known to inhibit CDC25C phosphatase, preventing entry into mitosis, and has been shown to stabilize the tumor suppressor protein p53, leading to cell cycle arrest in G1. In addition, this protein interacts with and phosphorylates BRCA1, allowing BRCA1 to restore survival after DNA damage. Mutations in this gene have been linked with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a highly penetrant familial cancer phenotype usually associated with inherited mutations in TP53. Also, mutations in this gene are thought to confer a predisposition to sarcomas, breast cancer, and brain tumors. This nuclear protein is a member of the CDS1 subfamily of serine/threonine protein kinases. Several transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2012]

CHEK2 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• CHEK2-related cancer predisposition

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: Ambry Genetics
• hereditary breast carcinoma

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen
• Li-Fraumeni syndrome 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: G2P
• acute myeloid leukemia

  Inheritance: AD Classification: MODERATE Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: ClinGen
• familial ovarian cancer

  Inheritance: AD Classification: NO_KNOWN Submitted by: ClinGen

ACMG classification

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 1 benign, 64 uncertain in NM_007194.4
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.811
• BS2: High AC in GnomAdExome4 at 5 AD gene. Variant has AC lower than other variant known as pathogenic in the gene, so the strength is limited to Supporting.

Variant Effect in Transcripts

ACMG analysis was done for transcript: NM_007194.4. You can select a different transcript below to see updated ACMG assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

Selected	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	CHEK2	NM_007194.4	MANE Select	c.422A>C	p.Lys141Thr	missense	Exon 3 of 15	NP_009125.1
	CHEK2	NM_001005735.3		c.551A>C	p.Lys184Thr	missense	Exon 4 of 16	NP_001005735.1
	CHEK2	NM_001438293.1		c.515A>C	p.Lys172Thr	missense	Exon 4 of 16	NP_001425222.1

Ensembl Transcripts

Selected	Gene	Transcript	Tags	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon Rank	Protein	UniProt
	CHEK2	ENST00000404276.6	TSL:1 MANE Select	c.422A>C	p.Lys141Thr	missense	Exon 3 of 15	ENSP00000385747.1
	CHEK2	ENST00000382580.6	TSL:1	c.551A>C	p.Lys184Thr	missense	Exon 4 of 16	ENSP00000372023.2
	CHEK2	ENST00000402731.6	TSL:1	c.422A>C	p.Lys141Thr	missense	Exon 2 of 13	ENSP00000384835.2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000342 AC: 5 AN: 1461824 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32 AF XY: 0.00000138 AC XY: 1 AN XY: 727214

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33478

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 44724

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26130

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39674

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86256

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53416

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5768

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00000450 AC: 5 AN: 1111988

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 60390

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

Alfa AF: 0.0000712 Hom.: 0

Bravo AF: 0.00000378

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:1 Uncertain:11

Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Submissions by phenotype

Familial cancer of breast Pathogenic:1 Uncertain:4

Apr 08, 2020

Center of Medical Genetics and Primary Health Care

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: research

ACMG Guidelines 2015 criteria This variant is in exon 3 of the CHEK2 gene in the forkhead-associated (FHA) domain (aa 113-175); it functions as a phosphopeptide recognition domain found in many regulatory proteins. It is in a mutation hotspot of 16 pathogenic variants (source ClinVar) (PM1 Pathogenic Moderate). This variant is not found in GnomAD exomes neither in GnomAD genomes (PM2 Pathogenic Moderate). This variant has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with breast cancer (PMID: 26976419, 27616075). 12 pathogenic predictions from DANN, DEOGEN2, EIGEN, FATHMM-MKL, M-CAP, MVP, MutationAssessor, MutationTaster, REVEL, SIFT, PolyPhen-2 and Align-GVGD versus 1 benign prediction from PrimateAI support its deleterious effect (PP3 Pathogenic Supporting). In our study this variant was found in a 45-year-old female with unilateral breast cancer and a strong family history. This patient also had a VUS in the SLX4 gene. Although this variant has been reported in ClinVar as a VUS, based on the evidence provided above, we classified this variant as a Likely Pathogenic.

Apr 12, 2018

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Jan 01, 2025

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces lysine, which is basic and polar, with threonine, which is neutral and polar, at codon 141 of the CHEK2 protein (p.Lys141Thr). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer (PMID: 25186627, 26976419, 27616075, 33558524, 33980423). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 186751). An algorithm developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function (PolyPhen-2) suggests that this variant is likely to be disruptive. Experimental studies have shown that this missense change does not substantially affect CHEK2 function (PMID: 37449874). 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.

Mar 08, 2023

Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant is classified as a variant of uncertain significance as there is insufficient evidence to determine its impact on protein function and/or cancer risk.

Apr 20, 2017

Counsyl

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

This submission and the accompanying classification are no longer maintained by the submitter. For more information on current observations and classification, please contact variantquestions@myriad.com.

not provided Uncertain:3

Jun 07, 2018

GeneDx

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant is denoted CHEK2 c.422A>C at the cDNA level, p.Lys141Thr (K141T) at the protein level, and results in the change of a Lysine to a Threonine (AAG>ACG). This variant was observed in at least three individuals with breast cancer (Tung 2015, Tung 2016, Kraus 2017). CHEK2 Lys141Thr was not observed in large population cohorts (Lek 2016). This variant is located in the FHA domain (Cai 2009, Roeb 2012). In silico analysis, which includes protein predictors and evolutionary conservation, supports a deleterious effect. Based on currently available evidence, it is unclear whether CHEK2 Lys141Thr is a pathogenic or benign variant. We consider it to be a variant of uncertain significance.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sinai Health System

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

The CHEK2 p.Lys141Thr variant was identified in 1 of 976 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.001) from individuals or families with stage I to stage III breast cancer (Tung 2016). The variant was also identified in dbSNP (ID: rs786203192) as “with uncertain significance allele” and in the ClinVar and Clinvitae databases as uncertain significance by Ambry Genetics, GeneDx and Invitae. The variant was not identified in Cosmic, MutDB, or the Zhejiang Colon Cancer Databases. The variant was not identified in the following control databases: the 1000 Genomes Project, the NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project, the Exome Aggregation Consortium (August 8th 2016), or the Genome Aggregation Database (Feb 27, 2017). The p.Lys141 residue is conserved in mammals but not in more distantly related organisms, and four out of five computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) suggest that the Thr variant may impact the protein; however, this information is not predictive enough to assume pathogenicity. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and 1 of 5 in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) predicts a greater than 10% difference in splicing; this is not very predictive of pathogenicity. In summary, based on the above information the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time. This variant is classified as a variant of uncertain significance.

Nov 03, 2021

Institute for Clinical Genetics, University Hospital TU Dresden, University Hospital TU Dresden

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:2

Mar 04, 2025

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This missense variant replaces lysine with threonine at codon 141 in the FHA domain of the CHEK2 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may have deleterious impact on protein structure and function. One functional study has shown this variant to have intermediate impact on CHEK2 auto-phosphorylation and phosphorylation of CHEK2 substrate KAP1 in a mouse embryonic stem cell based assay (PMID: 34903604), while another similar kinase activity study in a CHEK2-deficient human cell based assay has shown this variant to have no significant impact on kinase activity (PMID: 37449874). This variant has been reported in at least four individuals affected with breast cancer (PMID: 26976419, 27616075, 25186627, 33558524, 33980423). In a large breast cancer case-control meta analysis conducted by the BRIDGES consortium, this variant has shown an inconclusive association with breast cancer (4/60466 cases and 0/53461 controls; p-value=0.128) (PMID: 33471991). This variant has not been identified in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Although there is a suspicion that this variant may have a pathogenic role, the available functional evidence is conflicting, and clinical evidence is insufficient to determine the association of this variant with breast cancer conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.

Jun 12, 2025

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.K141T variant (also known as c.422A>C), located in coding exon 2 of the CHEK2 gene, results from an A to C substitution at nucleotide position 422. The lysine at codon 141 is replaced by threonine, an amino acid with similar properties. This alteration has been identified in individuals with personal and/or family histories of breast cancer (Tung N et al. J. Clin. Oncol. 2016 May;34:1460-8; Kraus C et al. Int J Cancer, 2017 Jan;140:95-102; Hauke J et al. Cancer Med. 2018 Apr;7:1349-1358; Akcay IM et al. Int J Cancer, 2021 Jan;148:285-295; Moradian MM et al. Hum Genome Var, 2021 Feb;8:9; Güleç Ceylan G et al. Tohoku J Exp Med, 2022 Nov;258:319-325). This alteration was reported as intermediate in an mES cell-based assay of CHEK2 activity (Boonen RACM et al. Cancer Res, 2022 Feb;82:615-631). This variant was reported as functional in a study assessing CHEK2-complementation through quantification of KAP1 phosphorylation and CHK2 autophosphorylation in human RPE1-CHEK2-knockout cells (Stolarova L et al. Clin Cancer Res, 2023 Aug;29:3037-3050). This amino acid position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. In addition, this alteration is predicted to be deleterious by in silico analysis. Based on the available evidence, the clinical significance of this variant remains unclear.

not specified Uncertain:1

Sep 03, 2024

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

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Variant summary: CHEK2 c.422A>C (p.Lys141Thr) results in a non-conservative amino acid change located in the Forkhead-associated (FHA) domain (IPR000253) of the encoded protein sequence. Five of five in-silico tools predict a damaging effect of the variant on protein function. The variant has been found at a frequency of 3.1e-06 in control population (gnomAD). c.422A>C has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with Hereditary Breast And/or Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (Kraus_2017, Moradian_2021). These data do not allow any conclusion about variant significance. At least one publication reports experimental evidence evaluating an impact on protein function. The most pronounced variant effect results in an intermediate effect (43% reduction) on phosphorylation of its substrate Kap1 in a mouse embryonic stem (mES) cellbased system (Boonen_2022). The following publications have been ascertained in the context of this evaluation (PMID: 34903604, 27616075, 33558524). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 186751). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as uncertain significance.

Bone osteosarcoma;C2931456:Familial prostate cancer;C5882668:CHEK2-related cancer predisposition Uncertain:1

Jan 19, 2024

Fulgent Genetics, Fulgent Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.9

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Pathogenic	0.96
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.26	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.14
CADD	Uncertain	25
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
DEOGEN2	Uncertain	0.56	D
Eigen	Uncertain	0.66
Eigen_PC	Uncertain	0.66
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.95	D
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.97	D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.17	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.81	D
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.76	D
MutationAssessor	Uncertain	2.3	M
PhyloP100		6.1
PrimateAI	Uncertain	0.70	T
PROVEAN	Pathogenic	-4.4	D
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.74
Sift	Benign	0.042	D
Sift4G	Uncertain	0.050	T
Polyphen		0.94	P
Vest4		0.63
MutPred		0.52		Gain of phosphorylation at K141 (P = 0.0351)
MVP		0.97
MPC		0.15
ClinPred		0.98	D
GERP RS		5.9
RBP_binding_hub_radar		0.0
RBP_regulation_power_radar		1.7
Varity_R		0.88
gMVP		0.71
Mutation Taster		=4/96	disease causing

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.010		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs786203192; hg19: chr22-29121253;