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Table 2 List of rare cancer-related pathogenic variants [control minor allele frequency (MAF) below 1%]

From: A knowledge-based framework for the discovery of cancer-predisposing variants using large-scale sequencing breast cancer data

Gene – variant

Control MAF

Case MAF

log2 MAF ratio

Summary of ClinVar and Humsavar annotations

COL7A1 - R1538C - (3,48619779,G,A)

0.002%

0.07%

5.35

Malignant melanoma

AKT1 - E17K - (14,105246551,C,T)

Novel

0.08%

4.47

Colon, ovary and breast cancer

FANCC - R185* - (9,97912338,G,A)

0.006%

0.07%

3.76

Fanconi anemia

MSH6 - T955fs - (2,48030639,-,C)

0.213%

2.61%

3.62

Lynch syndrome

ELAC2 - R741H - (17,12896274,C,T)

0.072%

0.23%

1.66

Prostate cancer

RET - Y791F - (10,43613908,A,T)

0.244%

0.69%

1.50

MEN2A syndrome/thyroid carcinoma

FLCN - R239C - (17,17125879,G,A)

0.033%

0.08%

1.20

Renal cell carcinoma

PKHD1 - T36M - (6,51947999,G,A)

0.075%

0.15%

0.98

Renal cancer

GALNT12 - D303N - (9,101594229,G,A)

0.185%

0.30%

0.72

Colorectal cancer

PRF1 - N252S - (10,72358722,T,C)

0.501%

0.82%

0.72

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

SDHD - G12S - (11,111957665,G,A)

0.992%

1.04%

0.07

Cowden disease 3

  1. This list includes all those genes that are not breast cancer predisposing but are connected to other types of cancer or cancer syndromes.
  2. *translation termination (stop) codon