Description
Variant summary: BRCA2 c.280C>T (p.Pro94Ser) results in a non-conservative amino acid change in the encoded protein sequence. Three of five in-silico tools predict a damaging effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 4.8e-05 in 251082 control chromosomes (gnomAD). This frequency is not significantly higher than estimated for a pathogenic variant in BRCA2 causing Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (4.8e-05 vs 0.00075), allowing no conclusion about variant significance. c.280C>T has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with breast or ovarian cancer and HBOC (example, Caux-Moncoutier_2009, Ortiz_2016, Maksimenko_2018, Guindalini_2022). These report(s) do not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer Syndrome. At-least one co-occurrence with another pathogenic variant has been observed (BRCA1 c.5266dup, p.Gln1756fsX74 in UMD database), providing supporting evidence for a benign role. This variant had no effect in a study assessing allelic imbalance as an indirect measure of the impact of out-of-frame defects leading to reductions in the levels of mutant mRNA cleared through NMD (example, Caux-Moncoutier 2009). Consistent with this result, a second study has shown variant has no effect on splicing and classified the variant as benign (Thomassen_ 2022). This supports the notion that this variant has no effect on splicing. The following publications have been ascertained in the context of this evaluation (PMID: 19471317, 21120943, 29928469, 29659569, 35979650, 35264596). Eleven submitters have cited clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 and classified the variant as likely benign (n=4) and VUS (n=7). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as likely benign.
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |