A likelihood ratio approach for utilizing case-control data in the clinical classification of rare sequence variants: application to BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Maria Zanti ; Denise G O'Mahony ; Michael T Parsons ; Hongyan Li ; Joe Dennis ; Kristiina Aittomäkkiki ; Irene L Andrulis ; Hoda Anton-Culver ; Kristan J Aronson ; Annelie Augustinsson ; +116 more... Heiko Becher ; Stig E Bojesen ; Manjeet K Bolla ; Hermann Brenner ; Melissa A Brown ; Saundra S Buys ; Federico Canzian ; Sandrine M Caputo ; Jose E Castelao ; Jenny Chang-Claude ; GC-HBOC study Collaborators ; Kamila Czene ; Mary B Daly ; Arcangela De Nicolo ; Peter Devilee ; Thilo Dörk ; Alison M Dunning ; Miriam Dwek ; Diana M Eccles ; Christoph Engel ; D Gareth Evans ; Peter A Fasching ; Manuela Gago-Dominguez ; Montserrat García-Closas ; José A García-Sáenz ; Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj ; Willemina RR Geurts-Giele ; Graham G Giles ; Gord Glendon ; Mark S Goldberg ; Encarna B Gómez Garcia ; Melanie Güendert ; Pascal Guénel ; Eric Hahnen ; Christopher A Haiman ; Per Hall ; Ute Hamann ; Elaine F Harkness ; Frans BL Hogervorst ; Antoinette Hollestelle ; Reiner Hoppe ; John L Hopper ; Claude Houdayer ; Richard S Houlston ; Anthony Howell ; ABCTB Investigators ; Milena Jakimovska ; Anna Jakubowska ; Helena Jernström ; Esther M John ; Rudolf Kaaks ; Cari M Kitahara ; Stella Koutros ; Peter Kraft ; Vessela N Kristensen ; James V Lacey ; Diether Lambrechts ; Melanie Léoné ; Annika Lindblom ; Jan Lubiński ; Michael Lush ; Arto Mannermaa ; Mehdi Manoochehri ; Siranoush Manoukian ; Sara Margolin ; Maria Elena Martinez ; Usha Menon ; Roger L Milne ; Alvaro N Monteiro ; Rachel A Murphy ; Susan L Neuhausen ; Heli Nevanlinna ; William G Newman ; Kenneth Offit ; Sue K Park ; Paul James ; Paolo Peterlongo ; Julian Peto ORCID logo ; Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska ; Kevin Punie ; Paolo Radice ; Muhammad U Rashid ; Gad Rennert ; Atocha Romero ; Efraim H Rosenberg ; Emmanouil Saloustros ; Dale P Sandler ; Marjanka K Schmidt ; Rita K Schmutzler ; Xiao-Ou Shu ; Jacques Simard ; Melissa C Southey ; Jennifer Stone ; Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet ; Rulla M Tamimi ; William J Tapper ; Jack A Taylor ; Soo Hwang Teo ; Lauren R Teras ; Mary Beth Terry ; Mads Thomassen ; Melissa A Troester ; Celine M Vachon ; Ana Vega ; Maaike PG Vreeswijk ; Qin Wang ; Barbara Wappenschmidt ; Clarice R Weinberg ; Alicja Wolk ; Wei Zheng ; Bingjian Feng ; Fergus J Couch ; Amanda B Spurdle ; Douglas F Easton ; David E Goldgar ; Kyriaki Michailidou ; (2023) A likelihood ratio approach for utilizing case-control data in the clinical classification of rare sequence variants: application to BRCA1 and BRCA2. Human Mutation, 2023. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1059-7794 DOI: 10.1155/2023/9961341
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A large number of variants identified through clinical genetic testing in disease susceptibility genes, are of uncertain significance (VUS). Following the recommendations of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) and Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the frequency in case-control datasets (PS4 criterion), can inform their interpretation. We present a novel case-control likelihood ratio-based method that incorporates gene-specific age-related penetrance. We demonstrate the utility of this method in the analysis of simulated and real datasets. In the analyses of simulated data, the likelihood ratio method was more powerful compared to other methods. Likelihood ratios were calculated for a case-control dataset of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC), and compared with logistic regression results. A larger number of variants reached evidence in favor of pathogenicity, and a substantial number of variants had evidence against pathogenicity - findings that would not have been reached using other case-control analysis methods. Our novel method provides greater power to classify rare variants compared to classical case-control methods. As an initiative from the ENIGMA Analytical Working Group, we provide user-friendly scripts and pre-formatted excel calculators for implementation of the method for rare variants in BRCA1, BRCA2 and other high-risk genes with known penetrance.


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