Submissions for variant NM_024675.4(PALB2):c.2748+1G>C

dbSNP: rs753153576

Total submissions: 6

Submitter	RCV	SCV	Clinical significance	Condition	Last evaluated	Review status	Method	Comment
Counsyl	RCV000409294	SCV000489669	likely pathogenic	Familial cancer of breast	2016-11-02	criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing
Color Diagnostics, LLC DBA Color Health	RCV001176291	SCV001340190	likely pathogenic	Hereditary cancer-predisposing syndrome	2022-03-16	criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	This variant causes a G to C nucleotide substitution at the +1 position of intron 7 of the PALB2 gene. Splice site prediction tools predict that this variant may have a significant impact on RNA splicing. Although this prediction has not been confirmed in published RNA studies, this variant is expected to result in an absent or disrupted protein product. This variant has not been reported in individuals affected with hereditary cancer in the literature. This variant has not been identified in the general population by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Loss of PALB2 function is a known mechanism of disease (clinicalgenome.org). Based on the available evidence, this variant is classified as Likely Pathogenic.
Invitae	RCV000409294	SCV002312773	pathogenic	Familial cancer of breast	2023-08-28	criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	This sequence change affects a donor splice site in intron 7 of the PALB2 gene. RNA analysis indicates that disruption of this splice site induces altered splicing and likely results in a shortened protein product. This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). Disruption of this splice site has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer (PMID: 28825143, 30720863, 31263054, 31841383). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 372056). Studies have shown that disruption of this splice site results in skipping of exon 7, but is expected to preserve the integrity of the reading-frame (PMID: 30890586). Other variant(s) that result in loss of exon 7 have been determined to be pathogenic (Invitae). This suggests that this variant may also be clinically significant and likely to be disease-causing. For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic.
KCCC/NGS Laboratory, Kuwait Cancer Control Center	RCV000409294	SCV003936140	likely pathogenic	Familial cancer of breast	2023-07-05	criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	This sequence change affects a donor splice site in intron 7 of the PALB2 gene. RNA analysis indicates that disruption of this splice site induces altered splicing and likely results in a shortened protein product. This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). Disruption of this splice site has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer (PMID: 28825143, 30720863, 31263054, 31841383). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 372056). Studies have shown that disruption of this splice site results in skipping of exon 7, but is expected to preserve the integrity of the reading-frame (PMID: 30890586). This variant disrupts the WD40-like repeats of the PALB2 protein, which are required for interactions with the BRCA2, POLH, and RAD51C proteins (PMID: 24141787, 24485656). While functional studies have not been performed to directly test the effect of this variant on PALB2 protein function, this suggests that disruption of this region of the protein is causative of disease. In summary, the currently available evidence indicates that the variant is pathogenic, but additional data are needed to prove that conclusively. Therefore, this variant has been classified as Likely Pathogenic.
KCCC/NGS Laboratory, Kuwait Cancer Control Center	RCV003315425	SCV004015171	likely pathogenic	Breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 5	2023-07-07	criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	This sequence change affects a donor splice site in intron 7 of the PALB2 gene. RNA analysis indicates that disruption of this splice site induces altered splicing and likely results in a shortened protein product. This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). Disruption of this splice site has been observed in individual(s) with breast cancer (PMID: 28825143, 30720863, 31263054, 31841383). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 372056). Studies have shown that disruption of this splice site results in skipping of exon 7, but is expected to preserve the integrity of the reading-frame (PMID: 30890586). This variant disrupts the WD40-like repeats of the PALB2 protein, which are required for interactions with the BRCA2, POLH, and RAD51C proteins (PMID: 24141787, 24485656). While functional studies have not been performed to directly test the effect of this variant on PALB2 protein function, this suggests that disruption of this region of the protein is causative of disease. In summary, the currently available evidence indicates that the variant is pathogenic, but additional data are needed to prove that conclusively. Therefore, this variant has been classified as Likely Pathogenic.
Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute San Juan Capistrano	RCV003477909	SCV004222315	likely pathogenic	not provided	2023-04-21	criteria provided, single submitter	clinical testing	The PALB2 c.2748+1G>C variant disrupts a canonical splice-donor site and is predicted to interfere with normal PALB2 mRNA splicing. The resulting exon 7 skipping maintains the translational reading frame, but disrupts the WD40 protein domain involved in BRCA2-binding and DNA damage repair (PMIDs: 19423707 (2009), 17420451 (2007)). This variant has not been reported in the published literature. It also has not been reported in large, multi-ethnic general populations (http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org). Two other variants affecting this splice site, c.2748+1G>T and c.2748+1G>A, have been reported as deleterious in individuals with breast and ovarian cancer (PMIDs: 34282249 (2021), 32546565 (2021), 28888541 (2017), 28825143 (2017)). Based on the available information, the c.2748+1G>C variant is classified as likely pathogenic.