rs879254139

chr2-214797118-C-Achr2-214797118-C-T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 14 ACMG points: 14P and 0B. PVS1_Moderate PP3_Strong PP5_Very_Strong

The NM_000465.4(BARD1):c.159-1G>T variant causes a splice acceptor change. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000685 in 1,459,560 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. 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:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000069 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: BARD1 NM_000465.4 splice_acceptor
• Scores: Splicing: ADA: 0.9999
• Clinical Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:13
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 4.84

Genes affected

BARD1 (HGNC:952): (BRCA1 associated RING domain 1) This gene encodes a protein which interacts with the N-terminal region of BRCA1. In addition to its ability to bind BRCA1 in vivo and in vitro, it shares homology with the 2 most conserved regions of BRCA1: the N-terminal RING motif and the C-terminal BRCT domain. The RING motif is a cysteine-rich sequence found in a variety of proteins that regulate cell growth, including the products of tumor suppressor genes and dominant protooncogenes. This protein also contains 3 tandem ankyrin repeats. The BARD1/BRCA1 interaction is disrupted by tumorigenic amino acid substitutions in BRCA1, implying that the formation of a stable complex between these proteins may be an essential aspect of BRCA1 tumor suppression. This protein may be the target of oncogenic mutations in breast or ovarian cancer. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2013]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Pathogenic. Variant got 14 ACMG points.

• PVS1: Splicing variant, NOT destroyed by nmd, known LOF gene, truncates exone, which is 0.023993146 fraction of the gene. No cryptic splice site detected. Exon removal is inframe change.
• PP3: Splicing scoreres supports a deletorius effect: Scorers claiming Pathogenic: dbscSNV1_ADA, dbscSNV1_RF, max_spliceai. No scorers claiming Uncertain. No scorers claiming Benign.
• PP5: Variant 2-214797118-C-A is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr2-214797118-C-A is described in ClinVar as [Likely_pathogenic]. Clinvar id is 246176.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
BARD1	NM_000465.4	c.159-1G>T		splice_acceptor_variant		ENST00000260947.9

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
BARD1	ENST00000260947.9	c.159-1G>T		splice_acceptor_variant		1	NM_000465.4	P2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000685 AC: 10 AN: 1459560 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 29 AF XY: 0.0000110 AC XY: 8 AN XY: 726256

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00000901

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:13

Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Submissions by phenotype

Familial cancer of breast Pathogenic:6

Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Invitae	Nov 28, 2023	This sequence change affects an acceptor splice site in intron 1 of the BARD1 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 BARD1 are known to be pathogenic (PMID: 20077502, 21344236). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). Disruption of this splice site has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer, ovarian or prostate cancer (PMID: 31036035, 31843900). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 246176). Studies have shown that disruption of this splice site is associated with altered splicing resulting in multiple RNA products (PMID: 31843900; Invitae). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. -
Pathogenic, no assertion criteria provided	research	King Laboratory, University of Washington	Sep 01, 2019	- -
Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Baylor Genetics	Aug 13, 2023	- -
Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Myriad Genetics, Inc.	May 18, 2023	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. -
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center	Dec 23, 2022	_x000D_ Criteria applied: PVS1, PS4_MOD, PM2_SUP -
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Fulgent Genetics, Fulgent Genetics	Nov 24, 2021	- -

not provided Pathogenic:4

Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute San Juan Capistrano	Jun 14, 2023	The BARD1 c.159-1G>T variant disrupts a canonical splice-acceptor site and interferes with normal BARD1 mRNA splicing. This variant has been reported in the published literature in affected individuals with breast cancer (PMIDs: 31036035 (2019) and 33471991 (2021)), ovarian and prostate cancer (PMID: 31843900 (2019)), b-cell neoplasms (PMID: 33809641 (2021)), as well as in a healthy individual (PMID: 33471991 (2021)). 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. -
Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	CeGaT Center for Human Genetics Tuebingen	Oct 01, 2022	BARD1: PVS1, PM2 -
Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Institute for Clinical Genetics, University Hospital TU Dresden, University Hospital TU Dresden	May 04, 2022	PVS1 -
Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	GeneDx	Nov 22, 2022	Canonical splice site variant expected to result in aberrant splicing; Not observed at significant frequency in large population cohorts (gnomAD); Published functional studies demonstrate a damaging effect: abnormal splicing (Casadei et al., 2019); This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 31843900, 31036035, 33804961, 33809641) -

Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome Pathogenic:2

Pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health	Aug 09, 2021	This variant causes a G to T nucleotide substitution at the -1 position of intron 1 of the BARD1 gene. An RNA study has reported two aberrant transcripts found uniquely in carrier and absent in healthy control that are expected to produce absent or non-functional protein product (PMID: 31843900). This variant also has been reported in one individual each affected with breast and ovarian cancer (PMID: 31036035, 31843900). This variant has not been identified in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Loss of BARD1 function is a known mechanism of disease (clinicalgenome.org). Based on the available evidence, this variant is classified as Pathogenic. -
Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	Ambry Genetics	Jun 27, 2023	The c.159-1G>T intronic variant results from a G to T substitution one nucleotide upstream from coding exon 2 of the BARD1 gene. In one study, this alteration was detected in 1/4469 German breast cancer patients (Weber-Lassalle N et al. Breast Cancer Res., 2019 04;21:55). This variant was not reported in population-based 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 acceptor site. RNA studies have demonstrated that this alteration results in abnormal splicing in the set of samples tested (Ambry internal data). A published RNA study also identified abnormal splicing associated with this variant (Casadei S et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Dec). 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 likely pathogenic. -

Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome Pathogenic:1

Likely pathogenic, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

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

Feb 07, 2017

Variant summary: The BARD1 c.159-1G>T variant involves the alteration of a conserved intronic nucleotide. Mutation Taster predicts a damaging outcome for this variant. 4/5 splice prediction tools predict a significant impact on normal splicing. However, these predictions have yet to be confirmed by functional studies. This variant is absent in 121314 control chromosomes. The variant of interest has not, to our knowledge, been reported in affected individuals via publications, however, a clinical diagnostic laboratory classified this variant as likely pathogenic. Taken together, this variant is classified as likely pathogenic. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.27	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.16
Cadd	Uncertain	24
Dann	Uncertain	0.99
Eigen	Pathogenic	0.98
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.79
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.96	D
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
GERP RS		5.6

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
dbscSNV1_ADA	Pathogenic	1.0
dbscSNV1_RF	Pathogenic	0.91
SpliceAI score (max)		0.99		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2
DS_AL_spliceai		0.99		Position offset: -1

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

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs879254139; hg19: chr2-215661842;