Pathogenic: PVS1 (very strong) is met for the exon 15 frameshift premature-termination codon expected to undergo nonsense-mediated decay. Pathogenic: PM5 (strong) is met under ENIGMA Table 4 for a premature-termination codon in exon 14.
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 loss-of-function BRCA2 change disrupts a tumor-suppressor protein required for homologous-recombination DNA repair and is relevant to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility.
Pathogenic: PVS1 (very strong) is met for the exon 15 frameshift premature-termination codon expected to undergo nonsense-mediated decay. Pathogenic: PM5 (strong) is met under ENIGMA Table 4 for a premature-termination codon in exon 14.