Calibration of Pathogenicity Due to Variant-Induced Leaky Splicing Defects by Using BRCA2 Exon 3 as a Model System

H Tubeuf, SM Caputo, T Sullivan, J Rondeaux… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
BRCA2 is a clinically actionable gene implicated in breast and ovarian cancer
predisposition that has become a high priority target for improving the classification of …

RAD51D Aberrant Splicing in Breast Cancer: Identification of Splicing Regulatory Elements and Minigene-Based Evaluation of 53 DNA Variants

E Bueno-Martínez, L Sanoguera-Miralles… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the BRIDGES project, the breast/ovarian cancer gene RAD51D has
been sequenced in> 113,000 women. In the present study, we focused on the impact that 11 …

Role of splicing regulatory elements and in silico tools usage in the identification of deep intronic splicing variants in hereditary breast/ovarian cancer genes

A Moles-Fernández, J Domènech-Vivó, A Tenés… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a significant percentage of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
(HBOC) cases that remain undiagnosed, because no pathogenic variant is detected through …

Splicing analyses for variants in MMR genes: best practice recommendations from the European Mismatch Repair Working Group

M Morak, M Pineda, A Martins, P Gaildrat… - European Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Over 20% of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) germline variants in suspected Lynch
syndrome patients are classified as variants of uncertain significance (VUS). Well …

Interpretation of BRCA2 Splicing Variants: A Case Series of Challenging Variant Interpretations and the Importance of Functional RNA Analysis

P Nix, E Mundt, B Coffee, E Goossen, BM Warf… - Familial Cancer, 2021 - Springer
A substantial proportion of pathogenic variants associated with an increased risk of
hereditary cancer are sequence variants affecting RNA splicing. The classification of these …

Aortic dissection in a young male with persistent ductus arteriosus and a novel variant in MYLK

MB Boelman, TO Hansen, MN Smith… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogenic variants in several genes involved in the function or regulation of smooth muscle
cells (SMC) are known to predispose to congenital heart disease and thoracic aortic …

Featuring BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutational landscape from Asturias (North Spain)

AS Pitiot, P Blay, A Díaz‐Navarro… - Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The singular BRCA1/2 mutational landscape of Asturias is updated 10 years after the first
study. We analyzed BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants in 1653 index cases. In total …

The effect of a single SMARCA4 exon deletion on RNA splicing: Implications for variant classification

A Byrjalsen, U Stoltze, M Mehrjouy… - … Genetics & Genomic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Exon deletions are generally considered pathogenic, particularly when they are
located out of frame. Here, we describe a pediatric, female patient presenting with …

Identification of a novel pathogenic deep intronic variant in PTEN resulting in pseudoexon inclusion in a patient with juvenile polyps

AM Jelsig, K Rønlund, LB Gede… - Journal of human …, 2023 - nature.com
Colorectal, hamartomatous juvenile polyps occur as part of different hereditary syndromes,
including Juvenile polyposis syndrome and PTEN-hamartoma tumour syndrome. However …

BRCA1 and BRCA2 whole cDNA analysis in unsolved hereditary breast/ovarian cancer patients

G Montalban, S Bonache, V Bach, A Gisbert-Beamud… - Cancer Genetics, 2021 - Elsevier
Germline pathogenic variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes (BRCA1/2) explain an important
fraction of hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) cases. Genetic testing generally …