rs200937538

chr16-23636051-G-Achr16-23636051-G-C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign. Variant got -6 ACMG points: 0P and 6B. BP4_Strong BP6 BP7

The NM_024675.4(PALB2):c.495C>T(p.Gly165=) variant causes a synonymous change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.0000663 in 1,613,984 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars).

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: 𝑓 0.000013 (0 hom., cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.000072 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: PALB2 NM_024675.4 synonymous
• Clinical Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications U:2 B:12
• Conservation: PhyloP100: -0.448

Genes affected

PALB2 (HGNC:26144): (partner and localizer of BRCA2) This gene encodes a protein that may function in tumor suppression. This protein binds to and colocalizes with the breast cancer 2 early onset protein (BRCA2) in nuclear foci and likely permits the stable intranuclear localization and accumulation of BRCA2. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_benign. Variant got -6 ACMG points.

• BP4: Computational evidence support a benign effect (BayesDel_noAF=-0.82).
• BP6: Variant 16-23636051-G-A is Benign according to our data. Variant chr16-23636051-G-A is described in ClinVar as [Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity]. Clinvar id is 186120.We mark this variant Likely_benign, oryginal submissions are: {Benign=2, Likely_benign=9, Uncertain_significance=1}. Variant chr16-23636051-G-A is described in Lovd as [Benign].
• BP7: Synonymous conserved (PhyloP=-0.448 with no splicing effect.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
PALB2	NM_024675.4	c.495C>T	p.Gly165=	synonymous_variant	4/13	ENST00000261584.9

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
PALB2	ENST00000261584.9	c.495C>T	p.Gly165=	synonymous_variant	4/13	1	NM_024675.4	P1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes AF: 0.0000132 AC: 2 AN: 151996 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32

Gnomad AFR AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMI AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR AF: 0.00

Gnomad ASJ AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS AF: 0.000386

Gnomad SAS AF: 0.00

Gnomad FIN AF: 0.00

Gnomad MID AF: 0.00

Gnomad NFE AF: 0.00

Gnomad OTH AF: 0.00

GnomAD3 exomes AF: 0.0000159 AC: 4 AN: 251434 Hom.: 0 AF XY: 0.0000221 AC XY: 3 AN XY: 135886

Gnomad AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS exome AF: 0.000217

Gnomad SAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad NFE exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.0000718 AC: 105 AN: 1461870 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 33 AF XY: 0.0000633 AC XY: 46 AN XY: 727230

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.00259

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.0000116

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.0000166

GnomAD4 genome AF: 0.0000131 AC: 2 AN: 152114 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 32 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 74374

Gnomad4 AFR AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS AF: 0.000387

Gnomad4 SAS AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 OTH AF: 0.00

Bravo AF: 0.00000378

Asia WGS AF: 0.000289 AC: 1 AN: 3478

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Uncertain:2 Benign:12

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Submissions by phenotype

not specified Benign:4

Benign, no assertion criteria provided	curation	Leiden Open Variation Database	Oct 10, 2018	Curators: Marc Tischkowitz, Arleen D. Auerbach. Submitter to LOVD: Yukihide Momozawa. -
Benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Women's Health and Genetics/Laboratory Corporation of America, LabCorp	May 17, 2019	Variant summary: PALB2 c.495C>T alters a non-conserved nucleotide resulting in a synonymous change. 5/5 computational tools predict no significant impact on normal splicing. However, these predictions have yet to be confirmed by functional studies. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00034 in 273862 control chromosomes, mainly in the Japanese population. The observed variant frequency is approximately 2.17 fold of the estimated maximal expected allele frequency for a pathogenic variant in PALB2 causing Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer phenotype (0.00016), strongly suggesting that the variant is benign and likely to be a Japanese polymorphism. c.495C>T has been reported in the literature in a Japanese case-control study, where the variant was not statistically associated with breast cancer risk (Momozawa_2018). Co-occurrences with other pathogenic variant(s) have been reported (BRCA2 c.5576_5579delTTAA, internal data), providing supporting evidence for a benign role. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. Five ClinVar submissions from clinical diagnostic laboratories (evaluation after 2014) cite the variant four times as likely benign and once as uncertain significance. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as benign. -
Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute San Juan Capistrano	Oct 16, 2020	- -
Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital	Feb 06, 2024	- -

Familial cancer of breast Benign:4

Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Counsyl	Feb 20, 2018	- -
Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Mendelics	May 28, 2019	- -
Benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Myriad Genetics, Inc.	Mar 30, 2023	This variant is considered benign. This variant is a silent/synonymous amino acid change and it is not expected to impact splicing. -
Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Invitae	Jan 25, 2024	- -

not provided Benign:2

Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	GeneDx	Feb 15, 2019	- -
Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	PreventionGenetics, part of Exact Sciences	Sep 13, 2017	- -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Benign:2

Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health	Nov 02, 2015	- -
Likely benign, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Ambry Genetics	Sep 12, 2014	This alteration is classified as likely benign based on a combination of the following: seen in unaffected individuals, population frequency, intact protein function, lack of segregation with disease, co-occurrence, RNA analysis, in silico models, amino acid conservation, lack of disease association in case-control studies, and/or the mechanism of disease or impacted region is inconsistent with a known cause of pathogenicity. -

Fanconi anemia complementation group N Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Illumina Laboratory Services, Illumina

Jan 12, 2018

This variant was observed in the ICSL laboratory as part of a predisposition screen in an ostensibly healthy population. It had not been previously curated by ICSL or reported in the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD: prior to June 1st, 2018), and was therefore a candidate for classification through an automated scoring system. Utilizing variant allele frequency, disease prevalence and penetrance estimates, and inheritance mode, an automated score was calculated to assess if this variant is too frequent to cause the disease. Based on the score, this variant could not be ruled out of causing disease and therefore its association with disease required further investigation. A literature search was performed for the gene, cDNA change, and amino acid change (if applicable). No publications were found based on this search. This variant was therefore classified as a variant of unknown significance for this disease. -

Bile duct cancer Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, no assertion criteria provided

clinical testing

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sinai Health System

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The PALB2 p.Gly165= variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in the Cosmic, MutDB, LOVD 3.0, or Zhejiang Colon Cancer Databases. The variant was identified in the following databases: dbSNP (ID: rs200937538) “With Likely benign allele”, ClinVar (classified likely benign by Ambry Genetics and GeneDx), Clinvitae (2x) and in control databases in 4 of 246210 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.00002 (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). It was observed in the East Asian population in 4 of 17248 chromosomes (freq: 0.0002); it was not observed in the African, Other, Latino, European Non-Finnish, Ashkenazi Jewish, European Finnish, and South Asian populations. The p.Gly165= variant is not expected to have clinical significance because it does not result in a change of amino acid and is not located in a known consensus splice site. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and 2 of 5 in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) predict 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. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.82
Cadd	Benign	5.6
Dann	Benign	0.49
RBP_binding_hub_radar		0.0
RBP_regulation_power_radar		1.7

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.080		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

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

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs200937538; hg19: chr16-23647372;