While FA caused by BRCA1/2 PGVs is strongly associated with distinct spectra of embryonal childhood cancers and AML with BRCA2-PGVs, and also early epithelial cancers with BRCA1 PGVs, germline variants in the BRCA1/2 genes have also been identified in non-FA childhood malignancies, and thereby implying the possibility of a role of BRCA PGVs also for non-syndromic cancer predisposition in children. The gene discussed is BRCA1; the disease is acute myeloid leukemia.