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BRCA2

Chr 13q13.1

BRCA2 DNA repair associated

Aliases:
FAD, FAD1, BRCC2, XRCC11
MANE:
ENST00000380152.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Additional findings health related

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Additional findings health related - adult specific

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Additional findings health related - CNV analysis adult specific

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult solid tumours cancer susceptibility

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult solid tumours for rare disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Breast cancer pertinent cancer susceptibility

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Childhood solid tumours

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood solid tumours cancer susceptibility

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • breast cancer

    0.84
  • Fanconi anemia complementation group D1

    0.84
  • cancer

    0.81
  • breast neoplasm

    0.81
  • breast carcinoma

    0.80
  • breast-ovarian cancer, familial, susceptibility to, 2

    0.80
  • Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome

    0.79
  • ovarian cancer

    0.78
  • hereditary breast carcinoma

    0.76
  • Hereditary breast cancer

    0.76

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Breast cancer type 2 susceptibility protein

Tumor suppressor protein that maintains genome stability primarily by repairing damaged DNA through homologous recombination (HR) (PubMed:11239456, PubMed:12442171, PubMed:15115758, PubMed:15199141, PubMed:15671039, PubMed:15937124, PubMed:17515903, PubMed:17515904, PubMed:18317453, PubMed:19303847, PubMed:20729832, PubMed:20729858, PubMed:20729859, PubMed:21719596, PubMed:27941124, PubMed:37499663, PubMed:37515771). Facilitates the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) by binding and mediating the loading of the RAD51 protein onto single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), thereby promoting the activity of RAD51, which catalyzes DNA strand exchange (PubMed:11239456, PubMed:12442171, PubMed:15937124, PubMed:17515903, PubMed:17515904, PubMed:18317453, PubMed:19303847, PubMed:20729832, PubMed:20729858, PubMed:20729859, PubMed:27941124, PubMed:37499663). BRCA2 nucleates and stabilizes RAD51 on ssDNA directly and delivers RAD51 to ssDNA-double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) junctions by sliding along dsDNA backbone (PubMed:12442171, PubMed:19303847, PubMed:37499663). RAD51 targeting to ssDNA promotes removal of replication protein-A (RPA) from ssDNA and stabilization of RAD51-ssDNA filaments by blocking ATP hydrolysis (PubMed:20729859). May play a role in the extension step after strand invasion at replication-dependent DNA double-strand breaks; together with PALB2 is involved in both POLH localization at collapsed replication forks and DNA polymerization activity (PubMed:24485656). Required to prevent R-loop-associated DNA damage and thus transcription-associated genomic instability (PubMed:24896180). Silencing of BRCA2 promotes R-loop accumulation at actively transcribed genes in replicating and non-replicating cells, suggesting that BRCA2 mediates the control of R-loop associated genomic instability, independently of its known role in homologous recombination (PubMed:24896180). Also promotes RAD51 loading to telomeric regions, facilitating telomere replication and capping (PubMed:21076401). Also required for homologous recombination during meiosis by promoting the recruitment of RAD51 and DMC1 recombinases to meiotic DSB sites, enabling proper chromosome pairing and crossing over (PubMed:26976601). Also promotes homologous recombination by inactivating the FIGNL1-FIRRM complex to protect RAD51 filament from premature disassembly (PubMed:37515771). Together with NPM1, may also regulate centrosome duplication (PubMed:21084279)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list BRCA2 among their top associated genes.

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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