Application of a 5-tiered scheme for standardized classification of 2,360 unique mismatch repair gene variants in the InSiGHT locus-specific database

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  • Bryony A Thompson
  • Amanda B Spurdle
  • John-Paul Plazzer
  • Marc S Greenblatt
  • Kiwamu Akagi
  • Fahd Al-Mulla
  • Bharati Bapat
  • Inge Bernstein
  • Gabriel Capellá
  • Johan T den Dunnen
  • Desiree du Sart
  • Aurelie Fabre
  • Michael P Farrell
  • Susan M Farrington
  • Ian M Frayling
  • Thierry Frebourg
  • David E Goldgar
  • Christopher D Heinen
  • Elke Holinski-Feder
  • Maija Kohonen-Corish
  • Kristina Lagerstedt Robinson
  • Suet Yi Leung
  • Alexandra Martins
  • Pal Moller
  • Monika Morak
  • Minna Nystrom
  • Paivi Peltomaki
  • Marta Pineda
  • Ming Qi
  • Rajkumar Ramesar
  • Rasmussen, Lene Juel
  • Brigitte Royer-Pokora
  • Rodney J Scott
  • Rolf Sijmons
  • Sean V Tavtigian
  • Carli M Tops
  • Thomas Weber
  • Juul Wijnen
  • Michael O Woods
  • Finlay Macrae
  • Maurizio Genuardi
  • Adela Castillejo
  • Adrienne Sexton
  • Anthony K W Chan
  • Alessandra Viel
  • Amie Blanco
  • Amy French
  • Andreas Laner
  • Anja Wagner
  • Ans van den Ouweland
  • on behalf of InSiGHT
The clinical classification of hereditary sequence variants identified in disease-related genes directly affects clinical management of patients and their relatives. The International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (InSiGHT) undertook a collaborative effort to develop, test and apply a standardized classification scheme to constitutional variants in the Lynch syndrome-associated genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2. Unpublished data submission was encouraged to assist in variant classification and was recognized through microattribution. The scheme was refined by multidisciplinary expert committee review of the clinical and functional data available for variants, applied to 2,360 sequence alterations, and disseminated online. Assessment using validated criteria altered classifications for 66% of 12,006 database entries. Clinical recommendations based on transparent evaluation are now possible for 1,370 variants that were not obviously protein truncating from nomenclature. This large-scale endeavor will facilitate the consistent management of families suspected to have Lynch syndrome and demonstrates the value of multidisciplinary collaboration in the curation and classification of variants in public locus-specific databases.
Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Genetics
Volume46
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)107-115
Number of pages9
ISSN1061-4036
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2014

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