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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants

From: Variants of cancer susceptibility genes in Korean BRCA1/2 mutation-negative patients with high risk for hereditary breast cancer

Case number

Site/histology of breast cancer

Breast cancer subtype

Breast cancer stage (AJCC 7th ed)

Concomitant cancers

Affected gene

Nucleotide change

Amino acid change

dbSNP

Variant effect

Family cancer history (family member, age)

MAF by ExAC (n = 60,704)

MAF by ExAC Asian (n = 12,583)

MAF by KRGDB(n = 622)

Confirmation method

Pathogenicity

Reference

1

L/IDC

ER+/PR+/HER2-

IIA

TP53

exon2–9 deletion

N/A

Large deletion

Breast ca (mother, 32)

N/A

N/A

N/A

MLPA

Pathogenic

 

2

B/IDC

ER+/PR+/HER2-

IIA

PALB2

c.3267_3268delGT

p.Phe1090SerfsTer6

rs587781890

Frameshift

Breast ca (aunt, 47),

Colon ca (GF, 60),

Stomach ca (GM, 60)

**

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic

 

3

R/IDC

ER+/PR+/HER2-

IIB

AoV

PALB2

c.2257C > T

p.Arg753Ter

rs180177110

Nonsense

Breast ca (sister, 53)

3.29 × 10−5

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Pathogenic

 

4*

L/poorly differentiated

TNBC

IA

Stomach

PALB2

c.695delG

p.Gly232ValfsTer6

Frameshift

Stomach ca (GF, 90),

Liver ca (uncle, 60)

**

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic

 

4*

L/poorly differentiated

TNBC

IA

Stomach

MRE11A

c.1773_1774delAA

p.Gly593LysfsTer4

Frameshift

Stomach ca (GF, 90),

Liver ca (uncle, 60)

**

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic

 

5†

L/mucinous

TNBC

IA

BARD1

c.1345C > T

p.Gln449Ter

Nonsense

Breast ca (sister1, 67; sister2, 47)

**

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic

 

6†

L/IDC

ER+/PR-/HER2-

IIA

BARD1

c.1345C > T

p.Gln449Ter

Nonsense

Breast ca (sister1, 67; sister2, 58)

**

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic

 

7

L/IDC

ER-/PR-/HER2+

IA

BRIP1

exon5–6 deletion

N/A

Largedeletion

Ovarian ca (mother, 35)

N/A

N/A

N/A

MLPA

Pathogenic

 

8

R/IDC

ER-/PR-/HER2+

IA

Cervix uteri

BRIP1

c.1066C > T

p.Arg356Ter

rs730881633

Nonsense

Breast ca (sister, 40)

**

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic

 

9

B/IDC

ER-/PR-/HER2+

IIA

TP53

c.733G > A

p.Gly245Ser

rs28934575

Missense

Stomach ca (father, 56); Pancreatic ca (father, 73)

8.24 × 10−6

**

**

Sanger sequencing

Likely pathogenic (Table S2)

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  1. Abbreviation: AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; AoV, ampulla of Vater; B: bilateral; ca: cancer; dbSNP, single nucleotide polymorphism database; DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ; ER, estrogen receptor; ExAC, Exome Aggregation Consortium; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; KRGDB, Korean Reference Genome database; L, left; N/A, not assessable; MAF, minor allele frequency; MLPA, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification; Polyphen, Polymorphism Phenotyping-2; PR, progesterone receptor; R, right; SIFT, Sorting Intolerant From Tolerant; TNBC, triple negative breast cancer
  2. *Case 4 had pathogenic variants in PALB2 and MRE11A. Case 5 and Case 6 are siblings. **There was no case with the relevant variant in the databases with respect to the general population