Hybrid ENIGMA meeting, June, 16th-18th 2025
Verona, Italy
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Day 1: Introductory Session - Chairs Amanda Spurdle and Maaike Vreeswijk
Welcome, thanks, housekeeping – Mandy, Maaike Arcangela and Paolox2 (slides 1, slides 2 – presentation 1, presentation 2).
Update – ClinGen Hereditary Breast Ovarian Pancreatic Cancer Variant Curation Expert Panel. PALB2 manuscript, ATM spec alignment, Progress on CHEK2 rules – Marcy Richardson (slides – presentation)
Update – ClinGen ENIGMA BRCA1/2 Variant Curation Expert Panel Progress; old classifications using new rules, priority classifications for ClinVar variants etc – Johanna Hadler (slides – presentation)
BRCA Exchange updates – Melissa Cline (slides – presentation)
ClinGen Low penetrance terminology/reporting and white paper recommendations – Mandy Spurdle (slides – presentation)
Day 1: Analytical Working Group - Chairs Kyriaki Michailidou and David Goldgar
Introduction – Kyriaki Michailidou and David Goldgar (slides–presentation)
New datasets – China Kadoorie Biobank – Christiana Kartsonaki Analytical Working Group – ongoing analyses (slides–presentation)
VAF for pathogenicity – Bingjian Feng (slides-presentation)
ccLR updates for ATM, CHEK2, PALB2 and TP53 – Damianos Michaelides (slides–presentation)
A statistical likelihood-ratio methodology for integrating enriched case data from national laboratory testing within large-scale case-control analyses (PS4) Sophie Allen (slides–presentation)
Case-control evidence for atypical risk – Maria Zanti (slides–presentation)
Fanconi phenotype as a predictor of pathogenicity – standard or atypical risk – Amanda Spurdle (slides–presentation)
Population data for reduced penetrance variants – Sam Cotton (slides–presentation)
Updates on Confluence Analytical issues to discuss: Effect of merged families on seg scores/penetrance Modelling for PRS Examples – Michael Parsons, Kyriaki Michailidou (slides–presentation)
Day 1: Clinical Working Group - Chairs Arcangela De Nicolo and Joanne Ngeow
Brief welcome and project updates. The Vocabulary Translation Project – Updated recommendations for reporting germline variants in cancer susceptibility genes and their translation into 20 languages – Arcangela De Nicolo (slides–presentation)
BRCA2 c.8351G>A p.(Arg2784Gln): a variant with reduced penetrance? Final update – Encarna Gomez-Garcia (slides–presentation)
Clinical and molecular studies of BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2 variants identified in Fanconi Anemia patients – update on HPO aspects – Amanda Spurdle (slides–presentation)
Reduced/atypical penetrance project – the CWG survey – Arcangela De Nicolo (slides–presentation)
CHEK2 and hematological diseases (new study description and preliminary data) – Encarna Gomez-Garcia, Zdenek Kleibl and Petra Kleiblova (slides–presentation)
Co-occurrence of germline PALB2 and BRIP1 pathogenic variants and implications for genetic counselling and clinical management: a case report – Mara Colombo (slides–presentation)
The national landscape of cancer predisposition in Australia: an overview of carrier data submitted to the Inherited Cancer Connect (ICCon) Database – Paul James (slides–presentation)
The DNA Screen Study: a nationwide pilot of population genomic screening in Australia – Melissa Southey (slides–presentation)
Population BRCA1 and BRCA2 screening: a Latvian pilot – Zanda Daneberga (slides–presentation)
Increasing access to genetic services: an update on the MD Anderson Cancer Center program for underserved communities – Banu Arun (slides–presentation)
African Oncogenetics Network: making sense of the sequence – Funmi Olopade (slides–presentation)
Day 2: Functional Working Group - Chairs Maaike Vreeswijk & Zdenek Kleibl
Welcome – Maaike/Zdenek (slides–presentation)
Update CHEK2gether – Zdenek Kleibl (slides–presentation)
Non-canonical functions of p53 – Lisa Wiesmüller (please contact the speaker for information)
TP53 hypomorphs – Libor Macurek (slides–presentation)
RAD51D – Fergus Couch (please contact the speaker for information)
Leveraging Saturation Mutagenesis and PARP Inhibitor Response to Assess the Deleteriousness of RAD51C Variants – Jacques Simard (slides–presentation)
Clinical relevance of in vitro and in silico analyses for variants of uncertain significance in six BRCA2-related cancer types – Tatsuki Yamazoe/ Yukihide Momozawa (slides–presentation)
Development and validation of a quantitative protein-protein interaction assay for the functional characterization of gene variants: a possible tool for the analysis of small in-frame deletions, insertions and indels – Laura Caleca (slides–presentation)
Other projects and where to next – Maaike Vreeswijk (slides–presentation)
Day 2: FWG with focus on MAVE - Chairs Clare Turnbull & Fergus Couch
Introductory comments – Fergus Couch / Clare Turnbull (slides–presentation)
Hypomorphic variants (Reduced Function/Penetrance) – Phoebe Dace (slides–presentation)
Hypomorphic variants (Reduced Function/Penetrance) – Fergus Couch (please contact the speaker for information)
Combining Assays/MAVES
– BRCA2: Fergus Couch (please contact the speaker for information)
– TP53: Sujatha/Charlie/Jeff Calhoun/Moez Dawood (slides–presentation)
– BRCA1 and BRCA2: Alvaro Monteiro (slides–presentation)
– CHEK2: Daniel Zimmerman (slides–presentation)
How to approach clinical validation/calibration (Survey results) – Clare Turnbull, Mandy Spurdle (slides–presentation)
Day 3: Splicing Working Group - Chairs Sara Gutiérrez-Enríquez and Logan Walker
Welcome – Sara and Logan (slides)
TP53 minigene analysis of 161 sequence changes provides evidence for role of spatial constraint and regulatory elements on variant-induced splicing impact – Daffodil Canson (slides–presentation)
Unveiling the dual impact of alternative splicing by functional characterization of spliceogenic BRCA1 variants – Romy Mesman (slides–presentation)
Application of construct-based splicing assay data for clinical variant interpretation – George Wiggins (slides-presentation) / Daffodil Canson (slides–presentation)
Project proposal discussion – incomplete splicing / thresholds / hypomorphs Led by Sara, Miguel and Logan (slides–presentation)
Long-read RNASeq kConfab (presentations)
Introduction – Mads Thomassen (slides)
Bioinformatics: methods and challenges – Paula Rofes Terrón (slides)
Update of results from analyses – Louise Adel Jensen (slides)
Project 7 extension ATM – Ada Esteban-Sánchez (slides–presentation)
Project 7 extension – CHEK2 – a project update and call for data – Petra Kleiblova (slides–presentation)
BRCA1 Δ11q splicing variants: Update on Project – Lidia Feliubadaló / Sara Gutiérrez-Enríquez (slides–presentation)
Hypomorphic variant BRCA1 c.5407-25T>A – Magan Trottier (slides–presentation)
Closing remarks/new projects – Sara / Logan (presentation)
Day 3: Pathology Working Group - Chairs Melissa Southey & Mads Thomassen
ENIGMA HRD project overview – Mads Thomassen (slides–presentation)
HRD as evidence type for classification of BRCA1/2 variants – stage I: analysis of published data – Simon Schnaiter (slides–presentation)
Evaluation of different WGS based HRD algorithms for prediction of treatment response and variant classification in ovarian cancer – Inge Søkilde Pedersen (slides–presentation)
Genomic instability score in ovarian cancer as a predictor of pathogenicity – Arjen Mensenkamp (slides–presentation)
Integrating breast tumor homologous recombination deficiency status to aid germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification – Amanda Spurdle ( slides–presentation)
RAD51 assay as biomarker for functional HR: Progress update – Joanna Domenech Vivo / Sara Gutierrez-Enriquez (slides–presentation)
Histopathology characteristics as predictors of pathogenicity in breast cancer susceptibility genes – Dimitra Christaki / Kyriaki Michailidou (slides–presentation)