22-30925961-G-C

Position:

• chr22-30925961-G-C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign. Variant got -2 ACMG points: 2P and 4B. PM2 BP4_Strong

The NM_001303256.3(MORC2):​c.*842C>G variant causes a 3 prime UTR change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant was absent in control chromosomes in GnomAD project. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.

• Frequency: Genomes: not found (cov: 31)
• Consequence: MORC2 NM_001303256.3 3_prime_UTR
• Clinical Significance: Not reported in ClinVar
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 1.07

Genes affected

MORC2 (HGNC:23573): (MORC family CW-type zinc finger 2) This gene encodes a member of the Microrchidia (MORC) protein superfamily. The encoded protein is known to regulate the condensation of heterochromatin in response to DNA damage and play a role in repressing transcription. The protein has been found to regulate the activity of ATP citrate lyase via specific interaction with this enzyme in the cytosol of lipogenic breast cancer cells. The protein also plays a role in lipogenesis and adipocyte differentiation. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2016]

MORC2-AS1 (HGNC:26662): (MORC2 antisense RNA 1)

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_benign. Variant got -2 ACMG points.

• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• BP4: Computational evidence support a benign effect (BayesDel_noAF=-0.83).

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	Protein	UniProt
MORC2	NM_001303256.3	c.*842C>G		3_prime_UTR_variant	26/26	ENST00000397641.8	NP_001290185.1
MORC2-AS1	NR_026920.1	n.1441G>C		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	2/2

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
MORC2	ENST00000397641.8	c.*842C>G		3_prime_UTR_variant	26/26	5	NM_001303256.3	ENSP00000380763	P1
MORC2-AS1	ENST00000441558.1	n.67+3446G>C		intron_variant, non_coding_transcript_variant		3

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 31

GnomAD4 exome Cov.: 0

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 31

ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
BayesDel_noAF	Benign	-0.83
CADD	Benign	2.7
DANN	Benign	0.70

Splicing

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)		0.0		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: rs2240176; hg19: chr22-31321948;