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Åke Borg

Åke Borg

Principal investigator

Åke Borg

Classification of BRCA1 missense variants of unknown clinical significance

Author

  • C M Phelan
  • V Dapic
  • B Tice
  • R Favis
  • E Kwan
  • F Barany
  • S Manoukian
  • P Radice
  • R B van der Luijt
  • B P M van Nesselrooij
  • G Chenevix-Trench
  • T Caldes
  • M de La Hoya
  • S Lindquist
  • S V Tavtigian
  • D Goldgar
  • Åke Borg
  • S A Narod
  • A N A Monteiro
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Summary, in English

Background: BRCA1 is a tumour suppressor with pleiotropic actions. Germline mutations in BRCA1 are responsible for a large proportion of breast - ovarian cancer families. Several missense variants have been identified throughout the gene but because of lack of information about their impact on the function of BRCA1, predictive testing is not always informative. Classification of missense variants into deleterious/ high risk or neutral/low clinical significance is essential to identify individuals at risk. Objective: To investigate a panel of missense variants. Methods and results: The panel was investigated in a comprehensive framework that included ( 1) a functional assay based on transcription activation; ( 2) segregation analysis and a method of using incomplete pedigree data to calculate the odds of causality; ( 3) a method based on interspecific sequence variation. It was shown that the transcriptional activation assay could be used as a test to characterise mutations in the carboxy-terminus region of BRCA1 encompassing residues 1396 - 1863. Thirteen missense variants (H1402Y, L1407P, H1421Y, S1512I, M1628T, M1628V, T1685I, G1706A, T1720A, A1752P, G1788V, V1809F, and W1837R) were specifically investigated. Conclusions: While individual classification schemes for BRCA1 alleles still present limitations, a combination of several methods provides a more powerful way of identifying variants that are causally linked to a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The framework presented here brings these variants nearer to clinical applicability.

Department/s

  • Breastcancer-genetics

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

138-146

Publication/Series

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volume

42

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group

Topic

  • Medical Genetics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-2593