Breast (Jun 2024)

A deep intronic recurrent CHEK2 variant c.1009-118_1009-87delinsC affects pre-mRNA splicing and contributes to hereditary breast cancer predisposition

  • Petra Zemankova,
  • Marta Cerna,
  • Klara Horackova,
  • Corinna Ernst,
  • Jana Soukupova,
  • Marianna Borecka,
  • Britta Blümcke,
  • Leona Cerna,
  • Monika Cerna,
  • Vaclava Curtisova,
  • Tatana Dolezalova,
  • Petra Duskova,
  • Lenka Dvorakova,
  • Lenka Foretova,
  • Ondrej Havranek,
  • Jan Hauke,
  • Eric Hahnen,
  • Miloslava Hodulova,
  • Milena Hovhannisyan,
  • Lucie Hruskova,
  • Marketa Janatova,
  • Maria Janikova,
  • Sandra Jelinkova,
  • Pavel Just,
  • Marcela Kosarova,
  • Monika Koudova,
  • Vera Krutilkova,
  • Eva Machackova,
  • Katerina Matejkova,
  • Renata Michalovska,
  • Adela Misove,
  • Petr Nehasil,
  • Barbora Nemcova,
  • Jan Novotny,
  • Ales Panczak,
  • Pavel Pesek,
  • Ondrej Scheinost,
  • Drahomira Springer,
  • Barbora Stastna,
  • Viktor Stranecky,
  • Ivan Subrt,
  • Spiros Tavandzis,
  • Eva Tureckova,
  • Kamila Vesela,
  • Zdenka Vlckova,
  • Michal Vocka,
  • Barbara Wappenschmidt,
  • Tomas Zima,
  • Zdenek Kleibl,
  • Petra Kleiblova

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 75
p. 103721

Abstract

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Germline CHEK2 pathogenic variants confer an increased risk of female breast cancer (FBC). Here we describe a recurrent germline intronic variant c.1009-118_1009-87delinsC, which showed a splice acceptor shift in RNA analysis, introducing a premature stop codon (p.Tyr337PhefsTer37).The variant was found in 21/10,204 (0.21%) Czech FBC patients compared to 1/3250 (0.03%) controls (p = 0.04) and in 4/3639 (0.11%) FBC patients from an independent German dataset. In addition, we found this variant in 5/2966 (0.17%) Czech (but none of the 443 German) ovarian cancer patients, three of whom developed early-onset tumors.Based on these observations, we classified this variant as likely pathogenic.

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