Description
Variant summary: APC c.5801C>T (p.Pro1934Leu) results in a non-conservative amino acid change located in the 20-amino acid beta-catenin down-regulating repeats (20AAR) (Azzopardi_APC_Cancer Res_2008) of the encoded protein sequence. Three of five in-silico tools predict a damaging effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00014 in 249974 control chromosomes, predominantly at a frequency of 0.00041 within the Latino subpopulation in the gnomAD database. The observed variant frequency within Latino control individuals in the gnomAD database is approximately 6 fold of the estimated maximal expected allele frequency for a pathogenic variant in APC causing Familial Adenomatous Polyposis phenotype (7.1e-05), strongly suggesting that the variant is a benign polymorphism found primarily in populations of Latino origin. c.5801C>T has been reported in the literature in individuals affected with multiple colorectal adenomas (Azzopardi 2008), and in other patients with various tumor phenotypes (Zhang 2015, Shirts 2015, Pritchard 2018). In one of these reports, this variant occurred in the germline of a patient with hypodiploid ALL and is unlikely to have been the primary causative lesion associated with the patient presentation (Zhang_2015). These report(s) do not provide unequivocal conclusions about association of the variant with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. At least one publication reports experimental evidence evaluating an impact on protein function. These results showed no damaging effect of this variant (Azzopardi 2008). Eleven clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 without evidence for independent evaluation. Multiple laboratories reported the variant with conflicting assessments (benign/likely benign, n=2; VUS, n=9). At-least two additional submitters have re-classified this variant as likely benign/benign since our previous evaluation. One submitter cites an unspecified co-occurrence with a mutation in another gene that clearly explains a proband's phenotype. Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as benign.
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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 |