chr17-43091627-C-A

Variant names:

• chr17-43091627-C-A
• rs80357461
• NM_007294.4:c.3904G>T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 18 ACMG points: 18P and 0B. PVS1 PM2 PP5_Very_Strong

The NM_007294.4(BRCA1):​c.3904G>T​(p.Glu1302*) variant causes a stop gained change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,878 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 Pathogenic (★★★). Synonymous variant affecting the same amino acid position (i.e. E1302E) has been classified as Likely benign. Variant results in nonsense mediated mRNA decay.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: BRCA1 NM_007294.4 stop_gained
• Clinical Significance: Pathogenic reviewed by expert panel P:15
• Conservation: PhyloP100: -0.109
• Publications: 14 publications found

Genes affected

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
• Fanconi anemia, complementation group S

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, MODERATE, LIMITED Submitted by: G2P, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen, Ambry Genetics
• pancreatic cancer, susceptibility to, 4

  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

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 18 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Loss of function variant, product undergoes nonsense mediated mRNA decay. LoF is a known mechanism of disease.
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP5: Variant 17-43091627-C-A is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr17-43091627-C-A is described in ClinVar as Pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 55045.Status of the report is reviewed_by_expert_panel, 3 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA1	NM_007294.4	c.3904G>T	p.Glu1302*	stop_gained	Exon 10 of 23	ENST00000357654.9	NP_009225.1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA1	ENST00000357654.9	c.3904G>T	p.Glu1302*	stop_gained	Exon 10 of 23	1	NM_007294.4	ENSP00000350283.3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 6.84e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1461878 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 33 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 727240

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33480

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

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26134

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 39696

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86258

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: 8.99e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1112006

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 60396

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

Alfa AF: 0.00 Hom.: 0

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:15

Revision: reviewed by expert panel

Submissions by phenotype

Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 1 Pathogenic:5

Oct 02, 2015

Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA), c/o University of Cambridge

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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May 29, 2002

Breast Cancer Information Core (BIC) (BRCA1)

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

May 01, 2012

Sharing Clinical Reports Project (SCRP)

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

May 27, 2024

Department of Clinical Genetics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

PVS1; PM2_supporting; PM5_PTC_Strong -

Sep 08, 2016

Evidence-based Network for the Interpretation of Germline Mutant Alleles (ENIGMA)

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: reviewed by expert panel

Collection Method: curation

Variant allele predicted to encode a truncated non-functional protein. -

not provided Pathogenic:4

May 27, 2022

Clinical Genetics Laboratory, Skane University Hospital Lund

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Mar 04, 2025

Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

- -

Feb 02, 2024

Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute San Juan Capistrano

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The BRCA1 c.3904G>T (p.Glu1302*) variant causes the premature termination of BRCA1 protein synthesis. This variant has been reported in the published literature in several affected individuals with breast and/or ovarian cancer (PMIDs: 17688236 (2007), 26833046 (2016), 30128899 (2018), 32854451 (2020), and 33403015 (2020)). It was also reported in an individual with breast cancer in a large scale breast cancer association study (PMID: 33471991 (2021), see also LOVD (http://databases.lovd.nl/shared/genes/BRCA1)). A functional study demonstrated that this variant had an inconclusive effect on protein function (PMID: 15781624 (2005)). This variant has not been reported in large, multi-ethnic general populations (Genome Aggregation Database, http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org). Based on the available information, this variant is classified as pathogenic. -

Aug 04, 2023

GeneDx

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Nonsense variant predicted to result in protein truncation or nonsense mediated decay in a gene for which loss of function is a known mechanism of disease; Not observed at significant frequency in large population cohorts (gnomAD); Truncating variants in this gene are considered pathogenic by a well-established clinical consortium and/or database; Observed in individuals with personal or family history of breast or ovarian cancer (Casadei et al., 2001; Judkins et al., 2005; Ramus et al., 2007; Nielsen et al., 2016); Also known as 4023G>T; This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 19826428, 25525159, 17688236, 16267036, 26833046, 22762150, 32854451, 29446198, 11556835, 15781624, 30128899, 33403015, 33471991, 31209999, 31853058, 29884841, 32377563, 37460658, 32380732) -

Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Pathogenic:4

Nov 17, 2023

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change creates a premature translational stop signal (p.Glu1302*) in the BRCA1 gene. It is expected to result in an absent or disrupted protein product. Loss-of-function variants in BRCA1 are known to be pathogenic (PMID: 20104584). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This premature translational stop signal has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer (PMID: 17688236). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 55045). RNA analysis performed to evaluate the impact of this premature translational stop signal on mRNA splicing indicates it does not significantly alter splicing (Invitae). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -

Jan 31, 2014

Research Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: research

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Nov 24, 2023

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

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

Variant summary: BRCA1 c.3904G>T (p.Glu1302X) results in a premature termination codon, predicted to cause a truncation of the encoded protein or absence of the protein due to nonsense mediated decay, which are commonly known mechanisms for disease. The variant was absent in 251170 control chromosomes. c.3904G>T has been reported in the literature in multiple individuals affected with or with family history of Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (HBOC) (e.g. Judkins_2005, Lecarpentier_2012, Ramus_2007, Sirchia_2005, Rebbeck_2018). These data indicate that the variant is very likely to be associated with disease. At least one publication reports experimental evidence evaluating an impact on protein function, however, does not allow convincing conclusions about the variant effect (e.g. Sirchia_2005). Seven submitters have cited clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014. All submitters classified the variant as pathogenic. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as pathogenic. -

Aug 09, 2018

Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.Glu1302X variant in BRCA1 has been reported in at least 3 individuals with breast cancer, and segregated with disease in one affected relative (Casadei 2001, Nielsen 2016, Ramus 2017). In addition, this variant was classified as Pathogenic on September 8, 2016 by the ClinGen-approved ENIGMA expert panel (ClinVar SCV000300040.2) and was absent from large population studies. This nonsense variant leads to a premature termination codon at position 1302 which is predicted to lead to a truncated or absent protein. Heterozygous loss of function of the BRCA1 gene is an established disease mechanism in hereditary breast and ovariant cancer. In summary, this variant meets criteria to be classified as pathogenic for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in an autosomal dominant manner based case reports, absence from controls and predicted impact on protein. ACMG/AMP Criteria applied: PM2,PVS1, PS4_Supporting. -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:2

Jan 15, 2020

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This variant changes 1 nucleotide in exon 10 of the BRCA1 gene, creating a premature translation stop signal. This variant is expected to result in an absent or non-functional protein product. This variant has not been identified 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. -

Jan 27, 2025

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

The p.E1302* pathogenic mutation (also known as c.3904G>T), located in coding exon 9 of the BRCA1 gene, results from a G to T substitution at nucleotide position 3904. This changes the amino acid from a glutamic acid to a stop codon within coding exon 9. This alteration has been reported in multiple individuals diagnosed with breast and/or ovarian cancer (Ramus SJ et al. Hum. Mutat. 2007 Dec; 28(12):1207-15; Nielsen HR et al. Fam. Cancer 2016 Feb; Marchetti C et al. Ann Surg Oncol, 2018 Nov;25:3701-3708; Fanale D et al. Cancers (Basel), 2020 Aug;12:; Incorvaia L et al. Ther Adv Med Oncol, 2020 Dec;12:1758835920975326; Dorling et al. N Engl J Med. 2021 02;384:428-439). This alteration was also identified in a large, worldwide study of BRCA1/2 mutation positive families (Rebbeck TR et al. Hum Mutat, 2018 05;39:593-620). This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). In addition to the clinical data presented in the literature, this alteration is expected to result in loss of function by premature protein truncation or nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. As such, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.36	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.27
CADD	Pathogenic	34
DANN	Uncertain	0.99
Eigen	Uncertain	0.36
Eigen_PC	Benign	0.058
FATHMM_MKL	Benign	0.065	N
PhyloP100		-0.11
Vest4		0.78
GERP RS		1.7
PromoterAI		-0.0072	Neutral
Mutation Taster		=0/200	disease causing (ClinVar)

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.0		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: rs80357461; hg19: chr17-41243644;