ClinVar

Description

This missense variant replaces threonine with serine at codon 767 of the MSH6 protein. Computational prediction suggests that this variant may have deleterious impact on protein structure and function (internally defined REVEL score threshold >= 0.7, PMID: 27666373). To our knowledge, functional studies have not been reported for this variant. This variant has been reported in an individual affected with colorectal cancer, who also carried a pathogenic truncation in the MLH1 gene that appeared to be responsible for the disease in the family (PMID: 25892863). This variant has been reported in an individual with significant family history of colorectal cancer that was affected with early onset colorectal cancer demonstrating high microsatellite instability (PMID: 29212164), and in an individual affected with breast cancer (DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255554v2). This variant has also been identified in 4/251156 chromosomes in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). A different variant affecting the same codon, c.2300C>T (p.Thr767Ile), is considered to be disease-causing (ClinVar variation ID: 141058), suggesting that this position is important for the protein function.The available evidence is insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease conclusively. Therefore, this variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.