ClinVar

Description

The RAD51C p.Leu262Val variant was identified in 6 of 12090 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.001) from individuals or families with breast and ovarian cancer and was present in 1 of 4854 control chromosomes (frequency: 0.0002) from healthy individuals (Jonson 2015, Song 2015, Thompson 2012). The variant was also identified in the following databases: dbSNP (ID: rs149331537) as With Uncertain significance allele, ClinVar (classified as uncertain significance by GeneDx, Ambry Genetics, Invitae, Counsyl, Color Genomics), and LOVD 3.0 (2X). The variant was not identified in the Cosmic or MutDB databases. The variant was identified in control databases in 19 of 277192 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.000069 (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). Breakdown of the observations by population include African in 1 of 24034 chromosomes (freq: 0.00004), Other in 1 of 6466 chromosomes (freq: 0.0002), European Non-Finnish in 16 of 126684 chromosomes (freq: 0.0001), European Finnish in 1 of 25790 chromosomes (freq: 0.00004), while the variant was not observed in the Latino, Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian, and South Asian populations. The p.Leu262 residue is conserved across mammals and other organisms, and four out of five computational analyses (PolyPhen-2, SIFT, AlignGVGD, BLOSUM, MutationTaster) suggest that the p.Leu262Val variant may impact the protein; however, this information is not predictive enough to assume pathogenicity. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and 5 of 5 in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) predict a greater than 10% difference in splicing. However, this information is not predictive enough to assume pathogenicity. In addition, Human Splicing Finder (HSF) splice analysis showed the possible introduction of a cryptic donor site caused by c.784T>G (Thompson 2012). In summary, based on the above information, the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time. This variant is classified as a variant of uncertain significance.