Variants of uncertain significance in the era of high-throughput genome sequencing: a lesson from breast and ovary cancers

G Federici, S Soddu - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 2020 - Springer
The promising expectations about personalized medicine have opened the path to routine
large-scale sequencing and increased the importance of genetic counseling for hereditary …

Application of a 5-tiered scheme for standardized classification of 2,360 unique mismatch repair gene variants in the InSiGHT locus-specific database

BA Thompson, AB Spurdle, JP Plazzer, MS Greenblatt… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The clinical classification of hereditary sequence variants identified in disease-related genes
directly affects clinical management of patients and their relatives. The International Society …

Sequence variant classification and reporting: recommendations for improving the interpretation of cancer susceptibility genetic test results

SE Plon, DM Eccles, D Easton, WD Foulkes… - Human …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic testing of cancer susceptibility genes is now widely applied in clinical practice to
predict risk of developing cancer. In general, sequence‐based testing of germline DNA is …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic comparison of traditional and multigene panel testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer genes in more than 1000 patients

SE Lincoln, Y Kobayashi, MJ Anderson, S Yang… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Gene panels for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk assessment are gaining
acceptance, even though the clinical utility of these panels is not yet fully defined. Technical …

Novel implications in molecular diagnosis of lynch syndrome

R Liccardo, M De Rosa, P Izzo… - … research and practice, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
About 10% of total colorectal cancers are associated with known Mendelian inheritance, as
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Lynch syndrome (LS). In these cancer types the …

Rare, evolutionarily unlikely missense substitutions in ATM confer increased risk of breast cancer

SV Tavtigian, PJ Oefner, D Babikyan… - The American Journal of …, 2009 - cell.com
The susceptibility gene for ataxia telangiectasia, ATM, is also an intermediate-risk breast-
cancer-susceptibility gene. However, the spectrum and frequency distribution of ATM …

Genetic evidence and integration of various data sources for classifying uncertain variants into a single model

DE Goldgar, DF Easton, GB Byrnes… - Human …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic testing often results in the finding of a variant whose clinical significance is
unknown. A number of different approaches have been employed in the attempt to classify …

BRCA2 Hypomorphic Missense Variants Confer Moderate Risks of Breast Cancer

H Shimelis, RLS Mesman, C Von Nicolai, A Ehlen… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Breast cancer risks conferred by many germline missense variants in the BRCA1 and
BRCA2 genes, often referred to as variants of uncertain significance (VUS), have not been …

A Classification Model for BRCA2 DNA Binding Domain Missense Variants Based on Homology-Directed Repair Activity

L Guidugli, VS Pankratz, N Singh, J Thompson… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
The relevance of many BRCA2 variants of uncertain significance (VUS) to breast cancer has
not been determined due to limited genetic information from families carrying these …

Identification of Breast Tumor Mutations in BRCA1 That Abolish Its Function in Homologous DNA Recombination

DJR Ransburgh, N Chiba, C Ishioka, AE Toland… - Cancer research, 2010 - AACR
Abstract Effects of breast cancer–associated gene 1 (BRCA1) missense mutations on the
function of BRCA1 protein in DNA recombination have been little studied. In this report, we …