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. 2020 Aug 10;31(6):e83. doi: 10.3802/jgo.2020.31.e83

Table 4. Reclassification frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 VUS.

Study Type of cancer Total No. of patients No. of initial VUS type No. of reviewed VUS type Reclassified class Reclassification method Country
B (%) LB (%) VUS (%) LP (%) P (%)
Mighton et al. [21] Breast, colon 6,090 453 154 26.6 14.9 56.5 1.3 0.6 Nationwide database Canada
So et al. [10] Breast, ovary 423 48 48 6.3 20.8 68.8 4.2 0.0 ACMG/AMP 2015 guideline Korea
Lee et al. [11] Breast 2,115 286 83 0.0 67.4 27.7 3.5 1.2 Multifactorial probability-based model Korea
ACMG/AMP 2015 guideline
Park et al. [7] HBOC 745 86 86 10.4 41.9 40.7 1.7 5.8 ACMG/AMP 2015 guideline Korea
Present study EOC, FTC, PPC 805 108 108 15.7 12.0 66.7 4.6 1.0 ACMG/AMP 2015 guideline Korea

ACMG/AMP, American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology; B, benign; EOC, epithelial ovarian cancer; FTC, fallopian tube cancer; HBOC, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome; LB, likely benign; LP, likely pathogenic; P, pathogenic; PPC, primary peritoneal cancer; VUS, variants of unknown significance.