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. 2016 Apr 15;37(7):627–639. doi: 10.1002/humu.22973

Table 5.

Summary of Published BRCA Gene Sequence Variant Spliceogenicity Assay Results

No aberration Aberration Percentage with aberration (95% CI)
Acceptor variants
High 0 43 100.0 (88.0–100.0)a
Moderate 17 13 43.3 (25.5–62.6)
Minimal or improved 18 1 5.3 (0.1–26.0)
Donor variants
High 2 67 97.1 (89.9–99.6)
Moderate 5 34 87.2 (72.6–95.7)
Minimal or improved 7 1 12.5 (0.3–52.7)
Combined donor and acceptor variants
High 2 110 98.2 (93.7–99.8)
Moderate 22 47 68.1 (55.8–78.8)
Minimal or improved 25 2b 7.4 (0.9–24.3)
De novo donor variants
Increased 4 9 69.2 (38.6–90.9)
Moderate 2 2 50.0 (6.8–93.2)
Weak/null and low 187 35 15.8 (11.2–21.2)
a

Added one discordant observation in order to estimate a 95% confidence interval.

b

One of the variants in this category, BRCA1 c.591C>T, is IARC class 1, neutral [Dosil et al., 2010; de la Hoya et al, submitted].

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