rs786203829

Variant names:

• chr13-32362631-T-G
• rs764248927
• NM_000059.4:c.7914T>G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 3 ACMG points: 3P and 0B. PM1 PP3

The NM_000059.4(BRCA2):​c.7914T>G​(p.Phe2638Leu) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000684 in 1,461,874 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 Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity (no stars). Another nucleotide change resulting in the same amino acid substitution has been previously reported as Likely benign in ClinVar. Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. F2638V) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000068 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: BRCA2 NM_000059.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity criteria provided, conflicting classifications U:7 B:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 2.82
• Publications: 6 publications found

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]

BRCA2 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):

• breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Ambry Genetics, Genomics England PanelApp, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), ClinGen
• Fanconi anemia complementation group D1

  Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Ambry Genetics, ClinGen, G2P
• pancreatic cancer, susceptibility to, 2

  Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG Submitted by: Genomics England PanelApp
• sarcoma

  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
• medulloblastoma

  Inheritance: AD Classification: LIMITED Submitted by: Ambry Genetics

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 3 ACMG points.

• PM1: In a hotspot region, there are 5 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 25 benign, 26 uncertain in NM_000059.4
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.802

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
BRCA2	NM_000059.4	c.7914T>G	p.Phe2638Leu	missense_variant	Exon 17 of 27	ENST00000380152.8	NP_000050.3

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
BRCA2	ENST00000380152.8	c.7914T>G	p.Phe2638Leu	missense_variant	Exon 17 of 27	5	NM_000059.4	ENSP00000369497.3
BRCA2	ENST00000530893.7	c.7545T>G	p.Phe2515Leu	missense_variant	Exon 17 of 27	1		ENSP00000499438.2
BRCA2	ENST00000614259.2	n.7922T>G		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	Exon 16 of 26	2		ENSP00000506251.1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD2 exomes AF: 0.0000159 AC: 4 AN: 251282 AF XY: 0.00

Gnomad AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad NFE exome AF: 0.0000352

Gnomad OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000684 AC: 10 AN: 1461874 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 33 AF XY: 0.00000688 AC XY: 5 AN XY: 727234

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: 86256

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53420

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5768

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00000899 AC: 10 AN: 1112000

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

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

Alfa AF: 0.00 Hom.: 0

Bravo AF: 0.00000378

ExAC AF: 0.0000330 AC: 4

EpiCase AF: 0.00

EpiControl AF: 0.0000593

ClinVar

Significance: Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity

Submissions summary: Uncertain:7 Benign:1

Revision: criteria provided, conflicting classifications

Submissions by phenotype

Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2 Uncertain:2

Mar 02, 2020

BRCAlab, Lund University

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Aug 08, 2023

All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This missense variant replaces phenylalanine with leucine at codon 2638 of the BRCA2 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may have deleterious impact on protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold >= 0.7, PMID: 27666373). Splice site prediction tools suggest that this variant may not impact RNA splicing. To our knowledge, functional studies have not been performed for this variant. This variant has been reported in 1 individual affected with breast cancer (PMID: 20104584). This variant has been identified in 4/251282 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Uncertain:1 Benign:1

Mar 31, 2025

Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This missense variant replaces phenylalanine with leucine at codon 2638 of the BRCA2 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may have deleterious impact on protein structure and function. To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has been reported in an individual affected with breast cancer (PMID: 20104584). This variant has been identified in 4/251282 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. -

May 19, 2025

Ambry Genetics

Significance: Likely benign

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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. -

not provided Uncertain:1

Aug 01, 2023

GeneDx

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

In silico analysis supports that this missense variant does not alter protein structure/function; Not observed at significant frequency in large population cohorts (gnomAD); Also known as 8142T>G; This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 12228710, 20104584, 32377563, 29684080, 33471991) -

Malignant tumor of breast Uncertain:1

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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sinai Health System

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: no assertion criteria provided

Collection Method: clinical testing

The BRCA2 p.Phe2638Leu variant was identified in 1 of 4206 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.0002) from individuals with breast cancer (Borg 2010). The variant was identified in dbSNP (rs764248927) as “with uncertain significance allele” and ClinVar (classified as uncertain significance by Invitae, Ambry Genetics and GeneDx). The variant was not identified in LOVD 3.0 and UMD-LSDB. The variant was identified in control databases in 4 of 246,046 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.00002 (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the following population: European in 4 of 111,518 chromosomes (freq: 0.00004), but not in the African, Other, Latino, Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian, Finnish or South Asian populations. The p.Phe2638 residue is conserved in mammals and computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) provide inconsistent predictions regarding the impact to the protein; this information is not very predictive of pathogenicity. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer) do not predict a difference in splicing. 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. -

Familial cancer of breast Uncertain:1

Oct 16, 2023

Baylor Genetics

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

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Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Uncertain:1

Oct 12, 2024

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces phenylalanine, which is neutral and non-polar, with leucine, which is neutral and non-polar, at codon 2638 of the BRCA2 protein (p.Phe2638Leu). This variant is present in population databases (rs764248927, gnomAD 0.004%). This missense change has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer (PMID: 20104584). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 187565). Invitae Evidence Modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) indicates that this missense variant is not expected to disrupt BRCA2 protein function with a negative predictive value of 95%. In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Pathogenic	0.98
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.17	D
BayesDel_noAF	Uncertain	0.12
CADD	Uncertain	24
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
Eigen	Uncertain	0.53
Eigen_PC	Uncertain	0.49
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.88	D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.19	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.80	D;D
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.30	D
PhyloP100		2.8
PrimateAI	Uncertain	0.67	T
PROVEAN	Benign	-1.6	N;N
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.70
Sift	Uncertain	0.0020	D;D
Sift4G	Pathogenic	0.0	D;D
Vest4		0.72
MutPred		0.72		Loss of ubiquitination at K2640 (P = 0.0877);Loss of ubiquitination at K2640 (P = 0.0877);
MVP		0.90
MPC		0.17
ClinPred		0.88	D
GERP RS		4.5
gMVP		0.60
Mutation Taster		=23/77	disease causing

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.030		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: rs764248927; hg19: chr13-32936768;