Table 2. Possibly damaging or well conserved variants in genes encoding proteins involved in DNA integrity maintaince.
Gene | Variant | Grantham | GERP1 | PhastCons1 | PolyPhen2 | Function |
CASC5 | p.I26L | 5 | 4.53 | 0.999 | Probably damaging | Spindle-assembly checkpoint signaling and chromosome alignment |
CUL9 | p.S2328F | 155 | 5.03 | 0.989 | Possibly damaging | Regulates the subcellular localization of p53 and subsequent function |
HLTF | p.S378T | 58 | 3.15 | 0.208 | Benign | Error-free postreplication repair of damaged DNA |
MUTYH | p.I223V | 29 | 5.43 | 1 | Benign | Oxidative DNA damage repair |
RBMX | p.Y357H | 83 | 5.66 | 1 | Probably damaging | Regulation of programmed cell death in breast cancer and homologous recombination |
SMC6 | p.R403W | 101 | 2.65 | 0.998 | Probably damaging | DNA damage repair via homologous recombination |
TTK | p.R185W | 101 | 4.04 | 0.004 | Probably damaging | Chromosome alignment, centrosome duplication and critical mitotic checkpoint |
XRCC2 | p.R91W | 101 | 4.48 | 0.742 | Probably damaging | DNA damage repair via homologous recombination |
Variants were selected if either of these criteria was met: Grantham score>100, GERP conservation score>3, PhastCons conservation score>0.7, or a “Probably damaging” Polyphen2 prediction.
Phastcons and GERP are both regional conservation algorithms ranging from 0 to 1 and −12.3 to 6.17 respectively (1 and 6.17 being most conserved).