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

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posted on 2023-03-31, 03:44 authored by Hélène Tubeuf, Sandrine M. Caputo, Teresa Sullivan, Julie Rondeaux, Sophie Krieger, Virginie Caux-Moncoutier, Julie Hauchard, Gaia Castelain, Alice Fiévet, Laëtitia Meulemans, Françoise Révillion, Mélanie Léoné, Nadia Boutry-Kryza, Capucine Delnatte, Marine Guillaud-Bataille, Linda Cleveland, Susan Reid, Eileen Southon, Omar Soukarieh, Aurélie Drouet, Daniela Di Giacomo, Myriam Vezain, Françoise Bonnet-Dorion, Violaine Bourdon, Hélène Larbre, Danièle Muller, Pascal Pujol, Fátima Vaz, Séverine Audebert-Bellanger, Chrystelle Colas, Laurence Venat-Bouvet, Angela R. Solano, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Claude Houdayer, Thierry Frebourg, Pascaline Gaildrat, Shyam K. Sharan, Alexandra Martins

Word doc, UNmarked changes. Supp Table of contents, Supp Materials and Methods, Supp Figures S1-S17 (including description of BRCA2 mRNA and protein domains, selection of BRCA2 variants, minigene structure, RNA splicing data versus bioinformatics predictions, minigene results versus patients' RNA and mESC's data, and results from mESC complementation assays), Supp Note and Supp Reference

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ARTICLE ABSTRACT

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 variants of unknown significance (VUS). Among all BRCA2 VUS, those causing partial/leaky splicing defects are the most challenging to classify because the minimal level of full-length (FL) transcripts required for normal function remains to be established. Here, we explored BRCA2 exon 3 (BRCA2e3) as a model for calibrating variant-induced spliceogenicity and estimating thresholds for BRCA2 haploinsufficiency. In silico predictions, minigene splicing assays, patients' RNA analyses, a mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC) complementation assay and retrieval of patient-related information were combined to determine the minimal requirement of FL BRCA2 transcripts. Of 100 BRCA2e3 variants tested in the minigene assay, 64 were found to be spliceogenic, causing mild to severe RNA defects. Splicing defects were also confirmed in patients' RNA when available. Analysis of a neutral leaky variant (c.231T>G) showed that a reduction of approximately 60% of FL BRCA2 transcripts from a mutant allele does not cause any increase in cancer risk. Moreover, data obtained from mESCs suggest that variants causing a decline in FL BRCA2 with approximately 30% of wild-type are not pathogenic, given that mESCs are fully viable and resistant to DNA-damaging agents in those conditions. In contrast, mESCs producing lower relative amounts of FL BRCA2 exhibited either null or hypomorphic phenotypes. Overall, our findings are likely to have broader implications on the interpretation of BRCA2 variants affecting the splicing pattern of other essential exons. These findings demonstrate that BRCA2 tumor suppressor function tolerates substantial reduction in full-length transcripts, helping to determine the pathogenicity of BRCA2 leaky splicing variants, some of which may not increase cancer risk.

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    Breast CancerGene RegulationGene TechnologiesGenetics Of Cancer Risk & OutcomeFamilial and hereditary cancersGenome BiologyFunctional genomicsOncogenes & Tumor SuppressorsBRCA family

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