Genomic variant Location Motif Reference score/motif (WT) Variant score/motif Effect/variation (%)
rs17049422* (c.217-141G/A) Intron 3 Acceptor site1 5.46 5.13 -6.04
Branch point site2 73.64 66.75 -9.36
SC352 81.75 84.33 3.16
SRp402   78.44 New site
Enhancer EIE3 present   Site broken
Enhancer 9G82   65.57 New site
Enhancer Tra2-b2   85.42 New site
rs79588315* (c.217-11T/C)

Intron 3

Acceptor site2 78.59 76.74 -2.35

Acceptor site1 3.01 1.83 -39.2

Enhancer EIE3   present New site

Silencer IIE3 present   Site broken
rs115418265 Intron 4 Enhancer EIE3   present New site
Silencer Motif 34 67.6   Site broken
Silencer IIE3   present New site
rs7594702 Intron 4 Donor site2 68.02 67.78 -0.35
SF2/ASF (IgM-BRCA1)2 74.31 75.19 1.19
SF2/ASF2 82.59 75.19 -8.96
Silencer Motif 24 70.15   Site broken
Silencer Motif 24 60.23   Site broken
Silencer IIE3 present   Site broken
rs73944840 Intron 4 SC352 83.77 80.27 -4.18
SRp402 80.12 82.28 2.69
SF2/ASF (IgM-BRCA1)2 74.08 82.28 11.07
Silencer Motif 34   61.51 New site
Silencer Motif 34 62.08   Site broken
rs28588526 Intron 4 Donor site2 50.37 77.18 53.3
SC352   75.85 New site
SRp402   83.71 New site
Enhancer EIE3 present   Site broken
Silencer IIE3   present New site
rs28391566 Intron 4 SF2/ASF (IgM-BRCA1)2   71.15 New site
Enhancer EIE3   present New site
Silencer hnRNP A12 74.53   Site broken
*Variant genotyped in our breast cancer cohort
EIE: exon-identity elements
IIE: Intron-identity elements
1Yeo & Burge, 2004, j Comput Biol 11:377
2 Based on Human Splicing Finder matrices
3 Zhang C et al 2008, PNAS 105:5797
4 Sironi M et al 2004, Nucleic acids research 32:1783
Table 2: In silico analysis of FANCL genomic regions and variants potentially involved in the expression of FANCLΔ4 spliced transcript.