Description
The MUTYH p.Tyr179Cys variant was identified in 878 of 42,504 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.03) from individuals or families with MAP or colorectal cancer (CRC). Of these 292 were heterozygous carriers, 99 were homozygous and 487 were compound heterozygotes. The variant was present in 156 of 31,262 control chromosomes (frequency: 0.005) from healthy individuals (Al-Tassan 2002, Nielsen 2009, Nascimbeni 2010, Theodoratou 2010, Vogt 2009, Sieber 2003). The variant was also identified in dbSNP (ID: rs34612342) as With Pathogenic allele, ClinVar (classified as pathogenic by GeneDx, Invitae, Ambry Genetics, Color Genomics, Pathway Genomics and more), Clinvitae (classified as pathogenic by ClinVar and Invitae), Cosmic (pathogenic), and in Insight Colon Cancer Gene Variant Database (535x pathogenic). The variant was not identified in MutDB, or UMD-LSDB databases. The variant was identified in control databases in 412 of 277178 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.001486 (Genome Aggregation Consortium Feb 27, 2017). The p.Tyr179 residue is conserved in mammals but not in more distantly related organisms, and computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) suggest that the variant may impact the protein; however, this information is not predictive enough to assume pathogenicity. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) do not predict a difference in splicing. In a meta-analysis study (Theodoratou 2010), to assess and refine CRC risk estimates associated with bi-allelic and mono-allelic MUTYH variants, MUTYH bi-allelic carriers demonstrated a 28-fold increase in CRC risk. Significant bi-allelic effects were also observed for G396D and Y179C/G396D compound heterozygotes and a marginal mono-allelic effect for variant Y179C. In summary, based on the above information, this variant meets our laboratory’s criteria to be classified as pathogenic.
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