ClinVar

Description

The POLD1 c.2007-4G>A variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in the Cosmic database. The variant was identified in dbSNP (ID: rs202035484 as "With Likely benign, Uncertain significance, other allele"), ClinVar (3x as benign by Invitae, and two other clinical laboratories and 4x as likely benign by Counsyl, GeneDx, Ambry Genetics and one other clinical laboratory), and in LOVD 3.0 (2x as benign). The variant was identified in control databases in 346 of 275244 chromosomes (1 homozygous) at a frequency of 0.001, increasing the likelihood this could be a low frequency benign variant (Genome Aggregation Database Feb 27, 2017). The variant was observed in the following populations: African in 9 of 23976 chromosomes (freq: 0.0004), Other in 5 of 6442 chromosomes (freq: 0.0008), Latino in 37 of 34414 chromosomes (freq: 0.001), European in 237 of 124870 chromosomes (freq: 0.002), Ashkenazi Jewish in 2 of 10138 chromosomes (freq: 0.0002), Finnish in 48 of 25786 chromosomes (freq: 0.002), and South Asian in 8 of 30782 chromosomes (freq: 0.0003); it was not observed in the East Asian population. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer) do not predict a difference in splicing. In summary, based on the above information the clinical significance of this variant cannot be determined with certainty at this time although we would lean towards a more benign role for this variant. This variant is classified as likely benign.