Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 18 ACMG points: 18P and 0B. PVS1PM2PP5_Very_Strong
The NM_007294.4(BRCA1):c.5278-1G>T 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 Pathogenic (★★).
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]
Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 18 ACMG points.
PVS1
Splicing +-2 bp (donor or acceptor) variant, LoF is a know mechanism of disease, Cryptic splice site detected, with MaxEntScore 9.5, offset of 8, new splice context is: ctcttcttccatatcttcAGggg. Cryptic site results in frameshift change. If cryptic site found is not functional and variant results in exon loss, it results in frameshift change.
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PP5
Variant 17-43051118-C-A is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr17-43051118-C-A is described in ClinVar as [Pathogenic]. Clinvar id is 55502.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars. Variant chr17-43051118-C-A is described in Lovd as [Likely_pathogenic]. Variant chr17-43051118-C-A is described in Lovd as [Pathogenic].
The c.5278-1G>T intronic pathogenic mutation results from a G to T substitution one nucleotide upstream from coding exon 19 of the BRCA1 gene. This mutation (designated as intron 20 position 1 G>T) has been identified in a high-risk German breast cancer kindred and shown to segregate with disease (Hamann U et al. J. Med. Genet., 1997 Nov;34:884-8). It was also seen in a high-risk Portuguese family (Peixoto A et al. Clin. Genet. 2015 Jul;88(1):41-8). One functional study found that this nucleotide substitution is non-functional in a high-throughput, genome editing, haploid cell survival assay (Findlay GM et al. Nature. 2018 Oct;562(7726):217-222). In addition to the clinical data presented in the literature, 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. As such, this alteration is classified as a disease-causing mutation. -
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter
clinical testing
Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health
Dec 12, 2023
This variant causes a G to T nucleotide substitution at the -1 position of intron 19 of the BRCA1 gene. Other substitutions at this position have been shown to cause out-of-frame splicing in carrier-derived RNA (PMID: 22505045, 23239986, 27886673). A functional study that requires proper RNA splicing has shown that this variant impact BRCA1 function in a haploid cell proliferation assay (PMID: 30209399). This variant has been reported in individuals and families affected with breast cancer (PMID: 9391879, 9760198, 24916970, 29805665). Substitutions at the -2A and -1G positions of this acceptor site have been reported as (likely) disease causing in ClinVar (variation ID: 55500, 55501, 55503, 267593, 868283). This variant has been identified in 1/251146 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Loss of BRCA1 function is a known mechanism of disease (clinicalgenome.org). Based on the available evidence, this variant is classified as Pathogenic. -
Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Pathogenic:2
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter
clinical testing
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Nov 07, 2023
This sequence change affects an acceptor splice site in intron 19 of the BRCA1 gene. It is expected to disrupt RNA splicing. Variants that disrupt the donor or acceptor splice site typically lead to a loss of protein function (PMID: 16199547), and loss-of-function variants in BRCA1 are known to be pathogenic (PMID: 20104584). This variant is present in population databases (rs80358099, gnomAD 0.0009%). Disruption of this splice site has been observed in individual(s) with breast and/or ovarian cancer (PMID: 9391879, 24916970). It has also been observed to segregate with disease in related individuals. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 55502). Algorithms developed to predict the effect of sequence changes on RNA splicing suggest that this variant may disrupt the consensus splice site. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter
clinical testing
Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp
Oct 30, 2019
Variant summary: BRCA1 c.5278-1G>T is located in a canonical splice-site and is predicted to affect mRNA splicing resulting in a significantly altered protein due to either exon skipping, shortening, or inclusion of intronic material. Several computational tools predict a significant impact on normal splicing: five tools predict the variant abolishes a 3' canonical acceptor site and strengthens a cryptic 3' acceptor site 8 nucleotides downstream from the canonical splice-site. While these predictions have yet to be confirmed by functional studies, a different variant affecting the same nucleotide position (c.5278-1G>A) has been demonstrated to result in aberrant transcripts, either lacking exon 20 or the first 8 nucleotides of exon 20, both of which predicted to cause a frameshift at the protein level (PMID: 23239986). The variant allele was found at a frequency of 4e-06 in 251146 control chromosomes (gnomAD). c.5278-1G>T has been reported in the literature in multiple individuals affected with Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (e.g. Hamann_1997, Dong_1998, Peixoto_2014, Rebbeck_2018). These data indicate that the variant is very likely to be associated with disease. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. Four ClinVar submitters (evaluation after 2014) cite the variant as pathogenic. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as pathogenic. -
not provided Pathogenic:1
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter
clinical testing
GeneDx
Jun 12, 2017
This variant is denoted BRCA1 c.5278-1G>T or IVS19-1G>T and consists of a G>T nucleotide substitution at the -1 position of intron 19 of the BRCA1 gene. Using alternate nomenclature, this variant has previously been published as BRCA1 5397-1G>T and IVS20-1G>T. This variant destroys a canonical splice acceptor site and is predicted to cause abnormal gene splicing, leading to either an abnormal message that is subject to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay or to an abnormal protein product. This variant has been demonstrated in vitro to create some transcripts which lack exon 20 and other which are missing the first 13 nucleotides of exon 20, both of which are deleterious to the protein (Wappenschmidt 2012). This variant has also been reported in families with breast and/or ovarian cancer (Dong 1998, Piexoto 2015). Based on the current evidence, we consider this variant to be pathogenic. -