ClinVar

Description

The ATM c.5497-8T>C variant was identified in 37 of 1416 proband chromosomes (frequency: 0.026) from individuals or families with breast cancer (Concannon 2008, Paglia 2010). The variant was also identified in dbSNP (ID: rs3092829) as “With Benign allele”, ClinVar (5x, as benign by Invitae, Ambry Genetics, Vantari, PreventionGenetics, Color Genomics), Clinvitae (3x, as benign), Cosmic (4x, in ovary carcinoma, and soft tissue Haemangioblastoma), LOVD 3.0 (1x with "does not affect function"), databases. The variant was not identified in GeneInsight-COGR, MutDB and ATM-LOVD, databases. The variant was identified in control databases in 6238 (94 homozygous) of 276468 chromosomes at a frequency of 0.0225 increasing the likelihood this could be a benign variant (Genome Aggregation Consortium Feb 27, 2017). The variant was identified in the following populations at a frequency greater than 1%: European (Non-Finnish) in 4209 (69 homozygous) of 126224 chromosomes (freq: 0.033), other in 181 (3 homozygous) of 6446 chromosomes (freq: 0.028), European (Finnish) in 650 (10 homozygous) of 25722 chromosomes (freq: 0.025), Ashkenazi Jewish* in 236 (4 homozygous) of 10138 chromosomes (freq: 0.023), Latino in 631 (7 homozygous) of 34354 chromosomes (freq: 0.018). The c.5497-8T>C variant is located in the 3' splice region but does not affect the invariant -1 and -2 positions. However, positions -3 and -5 to -12 are part of the splicing consensus sequence and variants involving these positions sometimes affect splicing. However, in silico or computational prediction software programs (SpliceSiteFinder, MaxEntScan, NNSPLICE, GeneSplicer, HumanSpliceFinder) do not predict a difference in splicing. In summary, based on the above information this variant meets our laboratory's criteria to be classified as benign.