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CHEK2 c.1513T>A · p.Ser505Thr
CHEK2

NM_007194.4:c.1513T>A (p.Ser505Thr) is a missense variant in exon 14 of CHEK2, a gene associated with autosomal dominant hereditary breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer predisposition.

Gene
CHEK2
Transcript
NM_007194.4
HGVS · transcript:coding
NM_007194.4:c.1513T>A
Consequence
N/A
GRCh38
chr22:28689164 A>T
GRCh37
chr22:29085152 A>T
Basis Hereditary Breast, Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancer Specification v1.0.0 lacked a usable explicit final combination framework, so generic ACMG/AMP 2015 final-combination rules were applied as fallback; applied criteria: PM2 supporting, BP4 supporting; combination = 1 supporting + 1 supporting benign, which maps to VUS.
Hereditary Breast, Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancer Specification v1.0.0 lacked a usable explicit final combination framework, so generic ACMG/AMP 2015 final-combination rules were applied as fallback; applied criteria: PM2 supporting, BP4 supporting; combination = 1 supporting + 1 supporting benign, which maps to VUS.
Classification rationale
PM2 BP4 VUS
CHEK2 c.1513T>A

NM_007194.4:c.1513T>A (p.Ser505Thr) is a missense variant in exon 14 of CHEK2, a gene associated with autosomal dominant hereditary breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer predisposition.1 This variant is present at very low frequency in gnomAD: 17/233,642 alleles in v2.1 (AF=0.00728%) and 44/1,595,378 alleles in v4.1 (AF=0.00276%), with the highest subpopulation frequency of 0.083% in East Asians, all below the 0.1% PM2 threshold (PM2_Supporting).2 Multiple in silico tools unanimously predict a benign effect: REVEL score 0.018 (benign range), BayesDel score -0.428 (benign range), and SpliceAI max delta 0.00 (no predicted splice impact) (BP4_Supporting).3 PVS1 is not applicable as this is a missense variant, not a null variant. PS1 and PM5 are not applicable as no same-residue pathogenic comparators have been identified. BP7 is not applicable as the variant is not synonymous.4 ClinVar consensus is Likely benign from four clinical laboratories, with one additional submitter reporting Uncertain significance and one reporting likely benign. No expert panel classification is available, and no reputable source has classified this variant as pathogenic.5 Functional evidence (PS3/BS3) remains unassessed pending full-text review of PMID:30851065 (Delimitsou et al. 2019), which performed functional characterization of CHEK2 variants in a yeast system and may include p.Ser505Thr.6 No de novo reports (PS2/PM6), no case-control enrichment data (PS4), no co-segregation data (PP1), and no trans-observation with a pathogenic variant (BP2) are available for this variant. Applying generic ACMG/AMP 2015 combination rules (PMID:25741868) with PM2_Supporting (1 pathogenic point) and BP4_Supporting (1 benign point), the variant is classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance (VUS), with the benign and pathogenic evidence effectively balancing each other. The CSPEC CHEK2 VCEP v1.0.0 (doc 522546466) did not provide machine-interpretable criteria beyond the raw ruleset.7

PM2 + BP4 VUS
Gene diagram · NM_007194.4 · variants mapped to exon structure
CHEK2 NM_007194.4
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Applied criteria · 2 met · select any tile
Met
Not met
Not assessed
N/A
Strength very strong supporting
Pathogenic evidence
PVS
PS
PM
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Benign evidence
BA
BS
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Rationale
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      Rule
      Research & evidence
      Population frequency
      gnomAD v4.1 screenshot
      gnomAD v4.1
      gnomAD v2.1 screenshot
      gnomAD v2.1
      v4.1
      This variant is present in gnomAD v4.1 (AF= 2.75797e-05; MAF= 0.00276%, 44/1595378 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the East Asian population (AF= 0.000779996; MAF= 0.07800%, 35/44872 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 0.00057582.
      v2.1
      This variant is present in gnomAD v2.1 (AF= 7.27609e-05; MAF= 0.00728%, 17/233642 alleles, homozygotes = 0) and has highest observed frequency in the East Asian population (AF= 0.000833519; MAF= 0.08335%, 15/17996 alleles, homozygotes = 0); grpmax FAF= 0.00051369.
      🇨🇦 CA
      This variant is absent from gnomAD-Canada.
      Allele frequency by ancestry
      three datasets · side by side
      gnomAD v4.1
      0.0028% · 44 / 1,595,378
      0 hom · FAF 0.058%
      East Asian
      35 / 44,872
      0.078%
      Remaining individuals
      7 / 62,170
      0.011%
      Admixed American
      2 / 59,982
      0.0033%
      + 7 not observed (European (Finnish), Amish, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Ashkenazi Jewish, African/African American, European (non-Finnish))
      gnomAD v2.1
      0.0073% · 17 / 233,642
      0 hom · FAF 0.051%
      East Asian
      15 / 17,996
      0.083%
      Admixed American
      2 / 34,358
      0.0058%
      + 6 not observed (African/African American, Ashkenazi Jewish, European (Finnish), European (non-Finnish), Remaining individuals, South Asian)
      gnomAD Canada 🇨🇦
      Absent · 0 / ?
      0 hom
      Not observed in any ancestry group.
      ClinVar screenshot
      ClinVar
      This variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely benign (4 clinical laboratories) and as Uncertain significance (1 clinical laboratory) and as likely benign (1 clinical laboratory). (ClinVarID = 182441)
      SpliceAI screenshot
      In silico
      SpliceAI predicts no significant splice impact for this variant (max delta score = 0.00). REVEL score = 0.018. BayesDel score = -0.428192.
      Functional / OncoKB screenshot
      Functional Unknown Oncogenic Effect
      OncoKB did not identify variant-specific reviewed functional evidence for this variant; gene-level curated context is available for reviewer follow-up. CHEK2, an intracellular kinase involved in control of the cell cycle, is altered in various cancer types.
      OncoKB ↗
      COSMIC screenshot
      COSMIC
      Cancer hotspots screenshot
      Cancer hotspots
      Somatic evidence Not in COSMIC / hotspots
      COSMIC
      This variant does not lie in a statistically significant hotspot. This variant has not previously been reported in somatic cancers (COSMIC).
      Hotspots
      This variant does not lie in a statistically significant hotspot.
      Sources & reference links
      8Sources
      CSpec VCEP
      ClinVar
      gnomAD v2.1
      gnomAD v4.1
      SpliceAI
      OncoKB
      COSMIC
      Cancer hotspots
      Triaged references · 9 PMIDs not cited in assessment
      15942682 ↗ Aberrations of the CHK2 gene are rare in pediatric solid tumors. CLINVAR
      23918944 ↗ Tamoxifen and risk of contralateral breast cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. CLINVAR
      25741868 ↗ Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology. CLINVAR
      26467025 ↗ A Standardized DNA Variant Scoring System for Pathogenicity Assessments in Mendelian Disorders. CLINVAR
      30851065 ↗ Functional characterization of CHEK2 variants in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae system. CLINVAR
      32566746 ↗ Prevalence of disease-causing genes in Japanese patients with BRCA1/2-wildtype hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome. CLINVAR
      12692171 ↗ American Society of Clinical Oncology policy statement update: genetic testing for cancer susceptibility. CLINVAR
      15604628 ↗ Genetic cancer risk assessment and counseling: recommendations of the national society of genetic counselors. CLINVAR
      28492532 ↗ Sherloc: a comprehensive refinement of the ACMG-AMP variant classification criteria. CLINVAR