Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 5 ACMG points: 6P and 1B. PM1PM2PM5BP6
The NM_007294.4(BRCA1):c.5239C>G(p.Gln1747Glu) variant causes a missense change. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. Q1747H) has been classified as Uncertain significance.
BRCA1 (HGNC:1100): (BRCA1 DNA repair associated) This gene encodes a 190 kD nuclear phosphoprotein that plays a role in maintaining genomic stability, and it also acts as a tumor suppressor. The BRCA1 gene contains 22 exons spanning about 110 kb of DNA. The encoded protein combines with other tumor suppressors, DNA damage sensors, and signal transducers to form a large multi-subunit protein complex known as the BRCA1-associated genome surveillance complex (BASC). This gene product associates with RNA polymerase II, and through the C-terminal domain, also interacts with histone deacetylase complexes. This protein thus plays a role in transcription, DNA repair of double-stranded breaks, and recombination. Mutations in this gene are responsible for approximately 40% of inherited breast cancers and more than 80% of inherited breast and ovarian cancers. Alternative splicing plays a role in modulating the subcellular localization and physiological function of this gene. Many alternatively spliced transcript variants, some of which are disease-associated mutations, have been described for this gene, but the full-length natures of only some of these variants has been described. A related pseudogene, which is also located on chromosome 17, has been identified. [provided by RefSeq, May 2020]
BRCA1 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 1
Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, ClinGen, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Genomics England PanelApp
Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 5 ACMG points.
PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 24 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 7 benign, 69 uncertain in NM_007294.4
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PM5
Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr17-43057089-T-G is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 867266.
BP6
Variant 17-43057090-G-C is Benign according to our data. Variant chr17-43057090-G-C is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 867265.
Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndromeUncertain:1
May 29, 2020
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing
This variant has been reported not to substantially affect BRCA1 protein function (PMID: 30209399). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals with BRCA1-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 867265). This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). 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. This sequence change replaces glutamine with glutamic acid at codon 1747 of the BRCA1 protein (p.Gln1747Glu). The glutamine residue is moderately conserved and there is a small physicochemical difference between glutamine and glutamic acid. -
Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 1Benign:1
Apr 12, 2024
Lupski Lab, Baylor-Hopkins CMG, Baylor College of Medicine
Significance:Likely benign
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:curation
Each variant was annotated with functional scores from MAVE data which was translated into functional evidence codes. All other evidence codes and combining criteria were adhered to as closely as possible based on the ClinGen VCEP (Variant Curation Expert Panel) gene-specific recommendations. See Supplemental Figure 34 of final paper (Supp Fig. 28 in preprint: doi:10.1101/2024.04.11.24305690) for a table to see which lines of evidence we did not have data for. The ClinGen VCEPs are highly regarded as the gold-standard for gene-specific variant curation and are developed after extensive evaluation of the evidence by clinical and scientific experts for the particular gene to classify genomic variants on a spectrum from pathogenic to benign using the 2015 ACMG/AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines as a backbone (PMID: 25741868). Reclassification of these VUS variants from gnomAD or All of Us focused only on variants originally prescribed as VUS in ClinVar. To ensure reproducibility, transparency, and increased throughput, all the procedures for annotating variants and assigning evidence codes were codified using Python. All code has been made freely available and is linked in the Code Availability section and all reclassified variants with evidence codes used can be found in Tables S18-19 (preprint: doi:10.1101/2024.04.11.24305690). For the MAVE data, the clinical curation and clinical strength assignment as per the ClinGen recommendations in Brnich et al. (2020) (PMID: 31892348) for or against pathogenicity or benignity of each of these MAVE datasets utilized in this study were previously published in Fayer et al. (2021) (PMID: 34793697).In brief, for BRCA1 variants, if a variant was categorized as FUNC (functional), it was assigned BS3 evidence and no PS3 evidence, whereas if it was categorized as LOF (loss of function), the variant was assigned PS3 evidence and no BS3 evidence. Variants categorized as INT (intermediate) were left unannotated. For the BRCA1 combining criteria, greater than or equal to 1 criteria of strong benign evidence was enough to reclassify the VUS as Likely Benign. This variant GRCh38:17:43057090:G>C was assigned evidence codes ['BS3', 'BP4'] and an overall classification of Likely benign -