ClinVar

Description

The ATM p.Gly2023Arg variant was identified in 15 of 8674 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.002) from individuals or families with CLL, lymphoid neoplasms, colorectal or breast cancer and was identified in 2 of 1602 chromosomes (frequency: 0.001) from healthy individuals (Broeks 2008, Gronbaek 2002, Mangone 2015, Paglia 2010, Podralska 2018, Skowronska 2012, Thorstenson 2003, Yurgelun 2015, Balmana 2016, Tung 2016). The variant was also identified in dbSNP (ID: rs11212587) as "With other allele", ClinVar (classified as benign by two clinical laboratories; as likely benign by Invitae, Ambry Genetics and three other submitters; as uncertain significance by one submitter), Cosmic (3x in Large intestine, or Haematopoietic and lymphoid tissue), MutDB, and in LOVD 3.0 (3x) databases. The variant was not identified in COGR. The variant was identified in control databases in 397 of 277154 chromosomes (1 homozygous) at a frequency of 0.001 increasing the likelihood this could be a low frequency benign variant (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the following populations: African in 10 of 24034 chromosomes (freq: 0.0004), Other in 7 of 6460 chromosomes (freq: 0.001), Latino in 36 of 34418 chromosomes (freq: 0.001), European in 300 of 126680 chromosomes (freq: 0.002), Ashkenazi Jewish in 1 of 10152 chromosomes (freq: 0.0001), East Asian in 1 of 18852 chromosomes (freq: 0.00005), Finnish in 22 of 25778 chromosomes (freq: 0.0009), and South Asian in 20 of 30780 chromosomes (freq: 0.0007). The p.Gly2023 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) do not predict a difference in splicing. In silico analysis predicted the variant induces or contributes to increased exon skipping (Caminsky 2016). In summary, based on the above information the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time although we would lean towards a more benign role for this variant. This variant is classified as likely benign.