Description
This sequence change replaces alanine with valine at codon 1708 of the BRCA1 protein (p.Ala1708Val). The alanine residue is highly conserved and there is a small physicochemical difference between alanine and valine. This variant is present in population databases (rs28897696, ExAC 0.04%). This variant has been reported in individuals with a personal and/or family history of breast cancer (PMID: 16489001, 18036263, 22034289, 26287763, 27495310), and an individual affected with kidney cancer (PMID: 26689913). In addition, it has been found in an individual with ovarian cancer (Invitae). However, in that individual a pathogenic allele was also identified in BRCA2, which suggests that this c.5123C>T variant was not the primary cause of disease. This variant is also known as 5242C>T (A1708V) in the literature. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 37640). Experimental studies have shown conflicting results for the effect of this missense change on BRCA1 structure and function. This variant caused decreased stability and compromised transcriptional activation, phosphopeptide binding (PMID: 20516115), and homology-directed repair activity (PMID: 26689913). However, in a different study, a protein with this missense variant showed normal stability and a relatively smaller decrease in transcriptional activity (PMID: 18036263). Additionally, a study utilizing a saturation genome editing (SGE) method has reported that this variant does not substantially affect BRCA1 protein function (PMID: 30209399). A different missense substitution at this codon (p.Ala1708Glu) has been determined to be pathogenic (PMID: 1157798, 11802208, 15923272, 19404736, 23867111). This suggests that the alanine residue is critical for BRCA1 protein function and that other missense substitutions at this position may also be pathogenic. In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance.
| # | Sample | Method | Observation |
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| Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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| 1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |