Description
The p.R193* pathogenic mutation (also known as c.577C>T), located in coding exon 4 of the RAD51C gene, results from a C to T substitution at nucleotide position 577. This changes the amino acid from an arginine to a stop codon within coding exon 4. This mutation has been reported in multiple families of different ethnicities with breast and/or ovarian cancer (Loveday C et al. Nat. Genet., 2012 Apr;44:475-6; author reply 476; Kushnir A et al. Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2012 Dec;136:869-74; Coulet F et al. Clin. Genet., 2013 Apr;83:332-6; Pennington KP et al. Clin Cancer Res, 2014 Feb;20:764-75; Blanco A et al. Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2014 Aug;147:133-43; Sopik V et al. Clin Genet, 2015 Oct;88:303-12; Song H et al. J Clin Oncol, 2015 Sep;33:2901-7; Lu C et al. Nat Commun. 2015 Dec 22;6:10086; Jønson L et al. Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2016 Jan;155:215-22; Susswein LR et al. Genet Med, 2016 08;18:823-32; Tung N et al. J Clin Oncol, 2016 May;34:1460-8; Li N et al. J Natl Cancer Inst, 2019 12;111:1332-1338; Akcay IM et al. Int J Cancer, 2021 01;148:285-295; Dorling et al. N Engl J Med. 2021 02;384:428-439). This mutation has also been reported in a patient with cutaneous melanoma and in an individual with multifocal paragangliomas and B-cell lymphocytosis with a family history of ovarian and colon cancer (Goyal A et al. JAAD Case Rep, 2019 Mar;5:240-241; Aoude LG et al. Sci Rep, 2020 10;10(1):17687). This alteration was shown to be susceptible to PARP inhibitors in mice, demonstrating loss of homologous repair pathway function (Kondrashova O et al. Cancer Discov, 2017 09;7:984-998). In addition to the clinical data presented in the literature, this alteration is expected to result in loss of function by premature protein truncation or nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. As such, this alteration is interpreted as a disease-causing mutation.
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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 |