rs267607924
Variant summary
Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 18 ACMG points: 18P and 0B. PVS1PM2PP5_Very_Strong
The NM_000251.3(MSH2):c.366+1G>A variant causes a splice donor, intron change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. 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 Likely pathogenic (★★).
Frequency
Consequence
NM_000251.3 splice_donor, intron
Scores
Clinical Significance
Conservation
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ACMG classification
Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 18 ACMG points.
Transcripts
RefSeq
Ensembl
Frequencies
GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 31
GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 28
GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 31
ClinVar
Submissions by phenotype
Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:2
This variant causes a G to A nucleotide substitution at the +1 position of intron 2 of the MSH2 gene. Splice site prediction tools suggest that this variant may have a significant impact on RNA splicing. Although this prediction has not been confirmed in published RNA studies, this variant is expected to result in an absent or disrupted protein product. This variant has been reported in individuals affected with Lynch syndrome-associated cancers (PMID: 17939062, 27064304, 25430799). This variant has not been identified in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Loss of MSH2 function is a known mechanism of disease (clinicalgenome.org). Based on the available evidence, this variant is classified as Likely Pathogenic. -
The c.366+1G>A intronic pathogenic mutation results from a G to A substitution one nucleotide after coding exon 2 of the MSH2 gene. This alteration has been reported in multiple hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC)/Lynch syndrome families to date (Geary J et al. Fam. Cancer. 2008 Oct;7:163-72; Goldberg Y et al. Clin. Genet. 2015 Jun;87:549-53; Sjursen W et al. Mol. Genet. Genomic Med. 2016 Mar;4:223-31). RNA studies have demonstrated that this alteration results in abnormal splicing in the set of samples tested (Ambry internal data). This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). This nucleotide position is highly conserved in available vertebrate species. In silico splice site analysis predicts that this alteration will weaken the native splice donor site. 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. -
Hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer Pathogenic:1
Variant summary: MSH2 c.366+1G>A 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: Four predict the variant abolishes a 5 splicing donor site. However, these predictions have yet to be confirmed by functional studies. The variant was absent in 250038 control chromosomes. c.366+1G>A has been reported in the literature in multiple individuals affected with Lynch Syndrome (Geary_2008, Goldberg_2014, Sjursen_2016). The variant has also been reported as a somatic occurrence in the MMR deficient tumor of a 71-year old female who was indicated to harbor another potentially pathogenic MSH2 variant, c.1738G>T (p.Glu580X) presumably due to LOH (Haraldsdottir_2014). This individual had previously tested negative for MMR germline mutations by Sanger sequencing, MLPA, and MLH1 hypermethylation and did not fulfill the Amsterdam-II or the revised Bethesda criteria for Lynch syndrome. These data indicate that the variant is very likely to be associated with disease in both germline and somatic settings. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. Four clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation. All laboratories classified the variant as pathogenic/likely pathogenic. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as pathogenic. -
Lynch syndrome 1 Pathogenic:1
This variant is considered likely pathogenic. This variant occurs within a consensus splice junction and is predicted to result in abnormal mRNA splicing of either an out-of-frame exon or an in-frame exon necessary for protein stability and/or normal function. -
Lynch syndrome Pathogenic:1
MSH2 NM_000251.2:c.366+1G>A has a 99.4% probability of pathogenicity based on combining prior probability from public data with a likelihood ratio of 1.56 to 1, generated from evidence of seeing this as a somatic mutation in a tumor without loss of heterozygosity at the MSH2 locus. See Shirts et al 2018, PMID 29887214. -
not provided Pathogenic:1
This pathogenic variant is denoted MSH2 c.366+1G>A or IVS2+1G>A and consists of a G>A nucleotide substitution at the +1 position of intron 2 of the MSH2 gene. This variant destroys a canonical splice donor 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. While splicing based functional assays have not been completed for this specific variant, a similar variant involving the same nucleotide, MSH2 c.366+1G>T, has been reportedly confirmed to result in skipping of exon 2 via RT-PCR (Auclair 2006). This variant has been reported in at least two individuals with Lynch syndrome (Geary 2008, Sjursen 2016). Based on current evidence, we consider MSH2 c.366+1G>A to be pathogenic. -
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal neoplasms Pathogenic:1
This sequence change affects a donor splice site in intron 2 of the MSH2 gene. RNA analysis indicates that disruption of this splice site induces altered splicing and may result in an absent or disrupted protein product. This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). Disruption of this splice site has been observed in individual(s) with clinical features of Lynch syndrome (PMID: 17939062, 25430799, 27064304; Invitae). It has also been observed to segregate with disease in related individuals. Invitae’s Lynch syndrome clinical variant model, which takes into account the clinical and family history, age, sex, and reported ancestry of multiple individuals with this MSH2 variant, predicts that it is pathogenic with a positive predictive value of at least 99%. This is a validated machine learning model developed at Invitae that incorporates the clinical features of 1,370,736 individuals referred for testing at Invitae. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 245947). Studies have shown that disruption of this splice site results in skipping of exon 2 and introduces a premature termination codon (Invitae). The resulting mRNA is expected to undergo nonsense-mediated decay. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -
Computational scores
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Splicing
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