chr13-32344557-G-C

Position:

• chr13-32344557-G-C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. Variant got 4 ACMG points: 4P and 0B. PVS1_Moderate PM2

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):​c.6842-1G>C variant causes a splice acceptor 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)
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 splice_acceptor
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 1.000
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 7.07

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]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Uncertain_significance. Variant got 4 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, product NOT destroyed by NMD, known LOF gene, truncates exone, which is 0.009261968 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/exons	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA2	NM_000059.4	c.6842-1G>C		splice_acceptor_variant		ENST00000380152.8	NP_000050.3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	c.6842-1G>C		splice_acceptor_variant		5	NM_000059.4	ENSP00000369497	A2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 25

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

Bravo AF: 0.00000378

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Ambry Genetics

Jan 29, 2018

The c.6842-1G>C intronic variant results from a G to C substitution one nucleotide upstream from coding exon 11 of 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, this alteration occurs at a splice junction that is located at a naturally occurring, alternatively spliced exon (ENIGMA Splicing Working group, unpublished data). Coding exon 11 was found to be clinically dispensable, as a different variant that causes coding exon 11 skipping (BRCA2 c.6853A>G; designated as 7081A>G by the authors) was found in trans with a pathogenic BRCA2 founder mutation (BRCA2 c.5946delT, designated as 6174delT by the authors) in an individual without Fanconi Anemia (Li L et al. Hum. Mutat., 2009 Nov;30:1543-50). Thus, the degree and effects of abnormal splicing caused by this variant cannot be predicted. This nucleotide position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. Using the BDGP and ESEfinder splice site prediction tools, this alteration is predicted to abolish and weaken the native splice acceptor site; however, direct evidence is unavailable. Since supporting evidence is limited at this time, the clinical significance of this alteration remains unclear. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.29	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.18
CADD	Pathogenic	29
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
Eigen	Pathogenic	1.1
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.91
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.99	D
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
GERP RS		5.0

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.94
SpliceAI score (max)		0.98		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_AL_spliceai		0.98		Position offset: 1

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

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs876658551; hg19: chr13-32918694;