Description
This variant is denoted BRCA2 c.9924C>A at the cDNA level and p.Tyr3308Ter (Y3308X) at the protein level. The substitution creates a nonsense variant, which changes a Tyrosine to a premature stop codon (TAC>TAA), and is predicted to cause loss of normal protein function through protein truncation. Even though this frameshift occurs near the end of the gene and nonsense-mediated decay is not expected to occur, it is significant since the last 111 amino acids are no longer translated causing loss of the NLS2 (Borg 2010). BRCA2 Tyr3308Ter due to an alternate nucleotide substitution (c.9924C>G) at the same position, has been observed in several individuals with Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (Naseem 2006, Alsop 2012). In addition, functional studies of this truncating variant, including assays measuring sensitivity to DNA damaging agents, homologous recombination, genomic instability and RAD51 focus formation all confirm the pathogenicity of this variant (Hucl 2008, Kuznetsov 2008). Based on currently available evidence, we consider this variant to be pathogenic.
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | yes | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |