16-66541912-G-C

Variant names:

• chr16-66541912-G-C
• rs281865488
• NM_004614.5:c.198C>G

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. Variant got 6 ACMG points: 6P and 0B. PM1 PM2 PP3_Moderate

The NM_004614.5(TK2):​c.198C>G​(p.Cys66Trp) variant causes a missense change. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000137 in 1,461,870 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 0.0000014 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: TK2 NM_004614.5 missense
• Clinical Significance: Likely pathogenic criteria provided, single submitter P:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 4.41

Genes affected

TK2 (HGNC:11831): (thymidine kinase 2) This gene encodes a deoxyribonucleoside kinase that specifically phosphorylates thymidine, deoxycytidine, and deoxyuridine. The encoded enzyme localizes to the mitochondria and is required for mitochondrial DNA synthesis. Mutations in this gene are associated with a myopathic form of mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms, some of which lack transit peptide, so are not localized to mitochondria. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2012]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_pathogenic. Variant got 6 ACMG points.

• PM1: In a chain Thymidine kinase 2, mitochondrial (size 231) in uniprot entity KITM_HUMAN there are 9 pathogenic changes around while only 1 benign (90%) in NM_004614.5
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.883

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
TK2	NM_004614.5	c.198C>G	p.Cys66Trp	missense_variant	Exon 3 of 10	ENST00000544898.6	NP_004605.4

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
TK2	ENST00000544898.6	c.198C>G	p.Cys66Trp	missense_variant	Exon 3 of 10	1	NM_004614.5	ENSP00000440898.2

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 0.00000137 AC: 2 AN: 1461870 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 727228

Gnomad4 AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 EAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 SAS exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00000180

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Submissions summary: Pathogenic:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Mitochondrial disease Pathogenic:1

Apr 10, 2025

Genomenon, Inc, Genomenon, Inc

Significance: Likely pathogenic

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: curation

TK2 Cys66Trp (c.198C>G) is a missense variant that changes the amino acid at residue 66 from Cysteine to Tryptophan. It is also described as C108W in the literature. This variant has been observed in a proband affected with mitochondrial disease in the compound heterozygous state and was found to segregate with disease in this family (PMID:16504786). This variant is not present at a significant frequency in gnomAD and in silico models agree that this variant is possibly or probably damaging. In conclusion, we classify TK2 Cys66Trp (c.198C>G) as a likely pathogenic variant. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Pathogenic	0.92
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.45	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.41
CADD	Pathogenic	31
DANN	Uncertain	0.99
DEOGEN2	Pathogenic	0.95	D;.;D;.;.;D;.
Eigen	Pathogenic	0.72
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.73
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.95	D
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.96	D;D;.;D;D;D;D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.27	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.88	D;D;D;D;D;D;D
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.79	D
MutationAssessor	Uncertain	2.9	M;M;M;.;.;.;.
PrimateAI	Uncertain	0.68	T
PROVEAN	Pathogenic	-4.5	.;.;.;.;D;D;.
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.77
Sift	Benign	0.16	.;.;.;.;T;T;.
Sift4G	Benign	0.15	T;T;T;T;T;T;T
Polyphen		1.0	D;.;D;.;P;.;.
Vest4		0.91
MutPred		0.60		.;.;.;Loss of methylation at K105 (P = 0.1104);.;.;Loss of methylation at K105 (P = 0.1104);
MVP		1.0
MPC		1.3
ClinPred		0.95	D
GERP RS		6.2
Varity_R		0.74
gMVP		0.97

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.010		Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

Publications

LitVar

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs281865488; hg19: chr16-66575815;