ClinVar

Description

Variant summary: ATM c.3014A>G (p.Asn1005Ser) results in a conservative amino acid change in the encoded protein sequence. Five of five in-silico tools predict a benign effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00039 in 253746 control chromosomes (gnomAD and Weitzel_2019), predominantly in the Ashkenazi Jewish cohort at an allele frequency of 0.0065. This frequency is approximately 6.5 fold of the estimated maximal expected allele frequency for a pathogenic variant in ATM causing Breast Cancer phenotype (0.001), strongly suggesting that the variant is a benign polymorphism found primarily in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. In addition, FLOSSIES (cohort of individuals older than 70 that never had cancer), this variant was also observed with an allele frequency of 0.0004047 (4/9884 individuals). c.3014A>G has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with breast cancer, ovarian cancer and in individuals with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer (Tung_2016, Lu _2015, Abe_2019). However, these reports do not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Breast Cancer. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. Ten clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation (Benign/likely benign n=3, VUS n=7). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as benign.