ClinVar

Description

Variant summary: NBN c.758C>T (p.Thr253Ile) results in a non-conservative amino acid change located in the Nibrin, second BRCT domain of 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 0.00041 in 251260 control chromosomes, predominantly at a frequency of 0.0032 within the South Asian subpopulation in the gnomAD database, including 1 homozygote. The observed variant frequency within South Asian control individuals in the gnomAD database is approximately 1.3- fold the estimated maximal expected allele frequency for a pathogenic variant in NBN causing Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome phenotype (0.0025), suggesting that the variant is a benign polymorphism found primarily in populations of South Asian origin. c.758C>T has been reported in the literature in healthy individuals (e.g. Bodian_2014) and at least one cancer cell line (e.g. Sun_2018). These reports do not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome. To our knowledge, no experimental evidence demonstrating an impact on protein function has been reported. Six other clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation, citing the variant as benign/ likely benign (n=4) and uncertain significance (n=2). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as likely benign.