ClinVar

Description

The STK11 p.Glu265= variant was not identified in the literature nor was it identified in the Cosmic, MutDB, LOVD 3.0, Zhejiang Colon Cancer Database, and Insight Hereditary Tumors Database. The variant was identified in dbSNP (ID: rs730881963) “With Likely benign allele”, ClinVar (classified as benign by GeneDx and likely benign by Ambry Genetics, Invitae and Counsyl), Clinvitae (3x), and in control databases in 50 (1 homozygous) of 275192 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.0002 increasing the likelihood this could be a low frequency benign variant (Genome Aggregation Consortium Feb 27, 2017). Breakdown of the observations by population include, other in 4 of 6416 chromosomes (freq. 0.0006), Latino in 18 (1 homozygous) of 34300 chromosomes (freq. 0.0005), European Non-Finnish in 5 of 125550 chromosomes (freq. 0.00004), and South Asian in 23 of 30524 chromosomes (freq. 0.0007); it was not seen in the African, Ashkenazi Jewish, European Finnish, and East Asian populations. The variant was identified by our laboratory in 1 individual with breast cancer, co-occurring with a pathogenic BRCA2 variant (c.6359C>G/ p.Ser2120X), increasing the likelihood that the p.Glu265=variant does not have clinical significance.The p.Glu265= variant is not expected to have clinical significance because it does not result in a change of amino acid and is not located in a known consensus splice site. The variant occurs outside of the splicing consensus sequence and 1 of 5 in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) predict a greater than 10% difference in splicing; this is not very predictive of pathogenicity. In summary, based on the above information this variant meets our laboratory's criteria to be classified as benign.