ClinVar

Description

Variant summary: ATM c.2804C>T (p.Thr935Met) results in a non-conservative amino acid change in the encoded protein sequence. Four of five in-silico tools predict a benign effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 6.4e-05 in 282986 control chromosomes, predominantly at a frequency of 0.0001 within the Non-Finnish European subpopulation in the gnomAD database. This frequency is not significantly higher than expected for a pathogenic variant in ATM causing Breast Cancer (6.4e-05 vs 0.001), allowing no conclusion about variant significance. The variant, c.2804C>T, has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with colorectal cancer (Yurgelun_2015, Yurgelun_JAMAOnc_2016) but also in controls (Tavtigian_2009, Renwick_2006). 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. Four clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation (VUS x3, likely benign x1). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as uncertain significance.