Research Article

A Likelihood Ratio Approach for Utilizing Case-Control Data in the Clinical Classification of Rare Sequence Variants: Application to BRCA1 and BRCA2

Table 2

Variants with informative LRs in favor of pathogenicity, estimated by the baseline analysis.

GeneVariant_ID (GRCh37/hg19)HGVS nucleotideHGVS proteinVariant carriersLR
CasesControls
N (frequency)N (frequency)

BRCA1chr17_41234451_A_Gc.4327C > Tp.(Arg1443)526.71
chr17_41215947_T_Gc.5096G > Tp.(Arg1699Leu)307.47

BRCA2chr13_32937506_C_Gc.8167G > Cp.(Asp2723His)8193.33
chr13_32953453_A_Gc.8755-1G > Ap.?41.18
chr13_32954180_C_Tc.9154C > Tp.(Arg3052Trp)86.82
chr13_32968940_A_Tc.9371A > Tp.(Asn3124Ile)3530.99

Variant nomenclature according to BRCA1 (NM_007294.4, NP_009225.1), BRCA2 (NM_000059.3, NP_000050.2). LR: likelihood ratio.