BRCA1 R1699Q variant displaying ambiguous functional abrogation confers intermediate breast and ovarian cancer risk

AB Spurdle, PJ Whiley, B Thompson, B Feng… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Clinical classification of rare sequence changes identified in the breast cancer
susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 is essential for appropriate genetic counselling of …

Variants of uncertain significance in BRCA: a harbinger of ethical and policy issues to come?

JY Cheon, J Mozersky, R Cook-Deegan - Genome medicine, 2014 - Springer
After two decades of genetic testing and research, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are two of
the most well-characterized genes in the human genome. As a result, variants of uncertain …

Identification of medically actionable secondary findings in the 1000 genomes

E Olfson, CE Cottrell, NO Davidson, CA Gurnett… - PLOS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recommends that clinical
sequencing laboratories return secondary findings in 56 genes associated with medically …

Patients' perspectives of variants of uncertain significance and strategies for uncertainty management

S Makhnoon, BH Shirts… - Journal of genetic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Variants of uncertain significance (VUS) are a well‐recognized source of uncertainty in
genomic medicine. Despite the existence of straightforward clinical management …

A somatic-mutational process recurrently duplicates germline susceptibility loci and tissue-specific super-enhancers in breast cancers

D Glodzik, S Morganella, H Davies, PT Simpson, Y Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Somatic rearrangements contribute to the mutagenized landscape of cancer genomes.
Here, we systematically interrogated rearrangements in 560 breast cancers by using a …

Functional assays provide a robust tool for the clinical annotation of genetic variants of uncertain significance

NT Woods, R Baskin, V Golubeva, A Jhuraney… - NPJ genomic …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS) are genetic variants whose association
with a disease phenotype has not been established. They are a common finding in …

High-throughput functional evaluation of BRCA2 variants of unknown significance

M Ikegami, S Kohsaka, T Ueno, Y Momozawa… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Numerous nontruncating missense variants of the BRCA2 gene have been identified, but
there is a lack of convincing evidence, such as familial data, demonstrating their clinical …

BRCA1/2 sequence variants of uncertain significance: a primer for providers to assist in discussions and in medical management

NM Lindor, DE Goldgar, SV Tavtigian, SE Plon… - The …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Introduction. DNA variants of uncertain significance (VUS) are common outcomes of clinical
genetic testing for susceptibility to cancer. A statistically rigorous model that provides a …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of 101 BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants of uncertain significance by cosegregation study: A powerful approach

SM Caputo, L Golmard, M Léone, F Damiola… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Up to 80% of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variants remain of uncertain clinical significance
(VUSs). Only variants classified as pathogenic or likely pathogenic can guide breast and …

A High Proportion of DNA Variants of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Is Associated with Aberrant Splicing in Breast/Ovarian Cancer Patients

DJ Sanz, A Acedo, M Infante, M Durán… - Clinical Cancer …, 2010 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Most BRCA1/2 mutations are of unknown clinical relevance. An
increasing amount of evidence indicates that there can be deleterious effects through the …