PVS1 Very Strong: the exon 18 frameshift creates a premature stop upstream of the ENIGMA NMD escape boundary. PM5 Strong: ENIGMA Table 4 assigns PM5_Strong (PTC) to genomic premature termination codons in BRCA2 exon 18.
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BRCA2 encodes a DNA repair protein that maintains genome stability by repairing double-strand breaks through homologous recombination and by protecting DNA replication forks. It acts as a tumor suppressor, and inherited loss-of-function changes cause hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, with elevated lifetime risks of breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancers; biallelic changes cause Fanconi anemia complementation group D1. Reduced or altered BRCA2 activity is implicated in multiple tumor types, and PARP inhibitors are an approved treatment for BRCA2-associated ovarian and breast cancers.
This BRCA2 loss-of-function variant is relevant to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome because BRCA2 tumor-suppressor activity is required for homologous-recombination DNA repair and replication-fork protection.
PVS1 Very Strong: the exon 18 frameshift creates a premature stop upstream of the ENIGMA NMD escape boundary. PM5 Strong: ENIGMA Table 4 assigns PM5_Strong (PTC) to genomic premature termination codons in BRCA2 exon 18.