Daniel Romano-Medina

Mr. Daniel Romano-Medina


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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ILInés Llinares-Burguet
Inés Llinares-Burguet
Lara Sanoguera-MirallesLara Sanoguera-Miralles
Lara Sanoguera-Miralles
EBElena Bueno-Martínez
Elena Bueno-Martínez
AEAda Esteban-Sánchez
Ada Esteban-Sánchez
DRDaniel Romano-Medina
Daniel Romano-Medina
Eladio Andrés Velasco-SampedroEladio Andrés Velasco-Sampedro
Eladio Andrés Velasco-Sampedro
Pathogenic germline variants in the ATM gene are associated with a 20–30% lifetime risk of breast cancer. Crucially, a relevant fraction of loss-of-function variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes disrupts pre-mRNA splicing. We aimed to perform splicing analysis of ATM splice-site variants identified in the large-scale sequencing project BRIDGES (Breast Cancer After Diagnostic Gene Sequencing). To this end, we bioinformatically selected 47 splice-site variants across 17 exons that were genetically engineered into three minigenes and assayed in MCF-7 cells. Aberrant splicing was observed in 38 variants. Of these, 30 variants, including 7 missense, yielded no or negligible expression of the minigene full-length (mgFL) transcript. A total of 69 different transcripts were characterized, 48 of which harboured a premature termination codon. Some variants, such as c.2922-1G>A, generated complex patterns with up to 10 different transcripts. Alternative 3′ or 5′ splice-site usage was the predominant event. Integration of ATM minigene read-outs into the ACMG/AMP (American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics/Association for Molecular Pathology)-based specifications for the ATM gene enabled the classification of 30 ATM variants as pathogenic or likely pathogenic and 9 as likely benign. Overall, splicing assays provide key information for variant interpretation and the clinical management of patients.