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RET encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase that, when activated by GDNF-family ligands, triggers signaling pathways involved in cell growth, differentiation, migration, and survival, and is essential for development of the nervous system and neural crest-derived tissues. Germline changes in RET cause Hirschsprung disease, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, and the inherited cancer syndromes multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A and 2B and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma. In cancer, RET is a proto-oncogene that can be turned on by point mutations or gene rearrangements, driving malignancies such as medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, and abnormal RET activity has also been linked to invasion and metastasis in pancreatic cancer and to endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer.
This variant
Germline RET missense variants cause the inherited cancer syndromes MEN2A, MEN2B, and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma, placing this exon 17 missense in a disease-relevant gene. It remains a VUS because, although absent from population databases, no pathogenic comparator, functional study, or clinical case data establishes its effect.
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NM_020975.5
HGVS · transcript:coding
NM_020975.5:c.2895G>T
GRCh38
chr10:43123764 G>T
GRCh37
chr10:43619212 G>T
VUS: only PM2 (supporting) and BP4 (supporting) were met — one pathogenic-supporting plus one benign-supporting satisfies no combination rule.
Classification rationale
PM2BP4VUS
RET c.2895G>Tmissense
PM2 (Supporting): absent from gnomAD v2.1, v4.1, and Canada (AF 0), below the <0.1% threshold. BP4 (Supporting): SpliceAI max delta 0.00 and BayesDel −0.186 predict no impact on the gene product. VUS: PM2 + BP4 (one supporting each) satisfies no Pathogenic, Likely Pathogenic, Benign, or Likely Benign rule in the generic ACMG/AMP 2015 combination table.
PM2 + BP4→VUS
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Gene diagram
· NM_020975.5 · variants mapped to exon structure
RETNM_020975.5
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Variants mapped
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Source
UCSC ncbiRefSeqCurated
All variants in RET—click a row to locate it on the plot · use the link column to open its page
Protein
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Classification
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Applied criteria · 2 applied · 21 assessed
MetEvidence satisfies this criterion.
Not metEvaluated against available evidence; threshold not reached.
Not assessedApplies in principle, but no evidence was found to evaluate it.
N/ADoesn't apply to this variant type.
Applied · 2
Strength Supporting Moderate Strong Very strong
✓
PM2supportingPathogenic
Met (supporting): absent from gnomAD v2.1, v4.1, and Canada (AF 0), below the <0.1% threshold.
Absent from gnomAD v2.1 (exome)Absent from gnomAD v4.1 (exome)Absent from gnomAD-Canada v1.0 (HostSeq genomes); AC=0, AN=0, AF=0.0, hom=0
OncoKB did not identify variant-specific reviewed functional evidence for this variant; gene-level curated context is available for reviewer follow-up. RET, a receptor tyrosine kinase, is altered by mutation in medullary thyroid cancers and by chromosomal rearrangement in lung cancers, papillary thyro
Triaged references · 1 PMID not cited in assessment
25394175 ↗A practice guideline from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the National Society of Genetic Counselors: referral indications for cancer predisposition assessment.CLINVAR