ClinVar

Description

The p.Y8* variant (also known as c.24C>G), located in coding exon 1 of the MSH6 gene, results from a C to G substitution at nucleotide position 24. This changes the amino acid from a tyrosine to a stop codon within coding exon 1. This alteration is identified in an individual whose rectal tumor demonstrated normal mismatch repair protein expression on immunohistochemistry (Ambry internal data). The predicted stop codon occurs in the 5’ end of theMSH6 gene. Premature termination codons in the 5’ end of a gene have been reported to escape nonsense-mediated mRNAdecay and/or lead to re-initiation (Rivas et al. Science. 2015 May 8;348(6235):666-9; Lindeboom et al. Nat Genet. 2016 Oct;48(10):1112-8; Rhee et al. Sci Rep. 2017 May 10;7(1):1653). Direct evidence for this alteration is unavailable, however premature termination codons are typically deleterious in nature. This variant is considered to be rare based on population cohorts in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Based on the majority of available evidence to date, this variant is likely to be pathogenic.