Reasoning
The governing VCEP limits BP4 to synonymous variants, intronic positions outside canonical splice sites, and non-coding UTR variants, with two of three named splicing tools predicting no splicing change. This variant is an exonic in-frame duplication, NM_006218.4:c.2107_2121dup, predicted as p.(Asn703_Glu707dup), so BP4 is outside its stated scope regardless of the available SpliceAI max delta score of 0.012; that score is not evaluated for BP4. No entry for c.2107_2121dup, p.Asn703_Glu707dup, or p.N703_E707dup was found in clingen_brainmalform_acmg_specifications_v1_1.pdf.txt.
VCEP rule
Brain Malformation Recommendation: Not applicable for any variant type except for For synonymous, intronic positions (except canonical splice sites) and non-coding variants in the UTRs,. This criterion can be applied when two of three splicing prediction tools predict no splicing change. The splicing prediction tools used are: varSEAK, spliceAI and MaxEntScan.
Evidence considered
- ClinGen Brain Malformations VCEP specification, BP4 Brain Malformation Recommendation: BP4 is not applicable except for synonymous, intronic positions outside canonical splice sites, and non-coding UTR variants; when applicable, two of three tools must predict no splicing change, using varSEAK, spliceAI, and MaxEntScan.
- Case normalization identifies NM_006218.4:c.2107_2121dup as an exonic in-frame duplication with predicted protein consequence NP_006209.2:p.(Asn703_Glu707dup). The available SpliceAI max delta score is 0.012, but it is outside BP4's stated variant scope and is not used.
Still missing
- No entry for c.2107_2121dup, p.Asn703_Glu707dup, or p.N703_E707dup was found in clingen_brainmalform_acmg_specifications_v1_1.pdf.txt; this does not alter the explicit BP4 variant-scope decision.
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