Table 2. Incidental findings with potentially actionable consequences.
| Incidental finding condition | Gene | AA change | UK10K | EVS_EA | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. Reportable Incidental Findings | |||||
| Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) | DSG2 | NM_001943: c.2397T>G:p.Y799* | absent | absent | Stop gain mutation, not previously reported, but mutation class considered pathogenic44 |
| DSG2 | NM_001943: c.2554G>T:p.E852* | absent | absent | As above | |
| Breast & ovarian cancer | BRCA2 | NM_000059: c.7558C>T:p.R2520* | absent | 0.0001 | Stop gain mutation; 5 independent R2520* in affected patients45-49. 4 reports of variant being pathogenic in ClinVar50 (submitted by independent clinical labs) and 7 records rated as causal in UMD-BRCA2 database51. Mutations of this class described in Brohet, et al. 52. |
| Long QT syndrome | KCNQ1 | NM_000218: c.877C>T:p.R293C | absent | absent | 2 independent reports in literature: i) 4 /2500 independent cases from FAMILION cohort referred for LQT genetic testing53 and ii) 1 case /388 consecutive unrelated patients with swimming triggered arrhythmia syndromes54, as compound heterozygote with G269D. Location of mutation in pore suggestive of pathogenicity. |
| II. Incidental Findings of Uncertain Significance | |||||
| Long QT syndrome | KCNQ1 | NM_000218: c.1189C>T:p.R397W | absent | 0.0006 | 3 independent reports in literature, including 3/2500 independent cases referred for long QT testing55, 5/600 cases in LQT registry53 and 1/91 independent cases of intrauterine foetal death56. Functional data from heterologous expression of mutation i) in HEK293 cells which shows markedly reduced current on whole cell patch clamp compared with WT56 and ii) in inside-out membrane patches from Xenopus oocytes which showed markedly reduced ATP binding57. Taken together, this suggests that the mutation should not be disregarded clinically as it may be weakly pathogenic, albeit with low absolute risk |
| Malignant hyperthermia | RYR1 | NM_000540: c.5036G>A:p.R1679H | 0.0006 | 0.0014 | Variant observed in single subject with complication, and positive functional testing58 but no independent replication. |
Variants deemed to be reportable and clinically actionable are listed Section I of the table. Those for which the evidence was not considered sufficient to be clinically actionable are reported or are uncertain are listed in Section II.
AA: amino acid; VUS: variant of unknown significance; UK10K: frequency in the UK10K twin cohort; EVS: Exome Variant Server; EVS_EA: frequency in European Americans in the EVS; HGMD: Human Gene Mutation Database; UMD: Universal Mutation Database (see URLs).