M-5703-G-A

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 9 ACMG points: 9P and 0B. PS4_ModeratePS3_SupportingPP3PM6_StrongPM2_Supporting

This summary comes from the ClinGen Evidence Repository: The m.5703G>A variant in MT-TN has been reported in four unrelated individuals with primary mitochondrial disease (PS4_moderate). These four individuals were from three different backgrounds including African American (one individual), Chinese (one individual), and Caucasian (two individuals, one from France and one from Spain). Features seen in affected individuals include myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO), as well as exercise intolerance, severe underweight, and hearing loss (PMIDs: 8254046, 14518831, 30897601, 32419253). The variant in these four cases was seen at varying degrees of heteroplasmy in muscle (14-80%), blood (5-48%), urine (4-11%), and buccal (7-59%). The variant was reported to have arisen de novo in three of the four affected individuals (PM6_strong, PMIDs: 8254046, 30897601, 32419253) and no details about family member testing were provided for the other individual. Furthermore, the variant’s presence in individuals of different ethnic backgrounds was also considered as indirect evidence of a de novo occurrence at some time in the past. There are no other large families reported in the medical literature to consider for evidence of segregation. There is one occurrence of this variant in GenBank dataset and it is absent in gnomAD v3.1.2 and in the Helix dataset, therefore the overall frequency is still very low (PM2_supporting). The computational predictor MitoTIP predicts this variant to be pathogenic, scoring in the 89.9 percentile and HmtVAR also predicts it to be pathogenic with a score of 0.85 (PP3). Multiple independent studies support the functional impact of this variant (PS3_supporting). Single-fiber testing in two of the four affected individuals was performed and showed that the variant was present at higher heteroplasmy in COX-negative fibers than COX-positive fibers (93% heteroplasmy in COX-negative fibers compared to 2% in COX-positive fibers in one individual, P<.0001, PMID:32419253; and 97-100% in COX-negative fibers compared to 3-63% in COX-positive fibers in the other individual, PMID:8254046). Furthermore, cybrids with high levels of the variant demonstrated a severe mitochondrial protein synthesis defect and impaired oxidative phosphorylation (PMIDs: 8254046, 9372914). tRNA conformational studies showed impaired aminoacylation with severe reduction of the tRNA Asn pool (PMID:9372914). In summary, this variant meets criteria to be classified as likely pathogenic however, after extensive discussion, this Expert Panel elected to modify the classification to pathogenic given consistent functional evidence of severe deleterious effect across multiple independent studies and given repeated apparent de novo occurrences across individuals of different ethnic backgrounds. This classification was approved by the NICHD/NINDS U24 ClinGen Mitochondrial Disease Variant Curation Expert Panel on February 13, 2023. Mitochondrial DNA-specific ACMG/AMP criteria applied (PMID:32906214): PS4_moderate, PS3_supporting, PP3, PM2_supporting, PM6_strong. LINK:https://erepo.genome.network/evrepo/ui/classification/CA120583/MONDO:0044970/014

Frequency

Mitomap GenBank:
Absent

Consequence

TRNN
unassigned_transcript_4796 synonymous

Scores

Mitotip
Pathogenic
18

Clinical Significance

Pathogenic reviewed by expert panel P:3
CPEO-/-MM

Conservation

PhyloP100: 1.61

Publications

4 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
TRNN (HGNC:7493): (mitochondrially encoded tRNA asparagine)
MT-CO1 (HGNC:7419): (mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase I) Contributes to cytochrome-c oxidase activity. Predicted to be involved in electron transport coupled proton transport and mitochondrial electron transport, cytochrome c to oxygen. Part of mitochondrial respiratory chain complex III and mitochondrial respiratory chain complex IV. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]
MT-ND2 (HGNC:7456): (mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 2) Enables NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) activity. Involved in mitochondrial electron transport, NADH to ubiquinone and mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I assembly. Part of mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I. Implicated in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy; multiple sclerosis; myocardial infarction; neurodegenerative disease (multiple); and urinary bladder cancer. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]
TRNA (HGNC:7475): (mitochondrially encoded tRNA alanine)
TRNW (HGNC:7501): (mitochondrially encoded tRNA tryptophan)
TRNC (HGNC:7477): (mitochondrially encoded tRNA cysteine)
TRNY (HGNC:7502): (mitochondrially encoded tRNA tyrosine)
TRNY Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • mitochondrial disease
    Inheritance: Mitochondrial Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: ClinGen

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 9 ACMG points.

PS3
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PS4
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PM2
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PM6
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PP3
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Variant Effect in Transcripts

ACMG analysis was done for transcript: ENST00000387400.1. You can select a different transcript below to see updated ACMG assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

Selected
GeneTranscriptTagsHGVScHGVSpEffectExon RankProteinUniProt

There are no transcript annotations for this variant.

Ensembl Transcripts

Selected
GeneTranscriptTagsHGVScHGVSpEffectExon RankProteinUniProt
MT-TN
ENST00000387400.1
TSL:6
n.27C>T
non_coding_transcript_exon
Exon 1 of 1
MT-CO1
ENST00000361624.2
TSL:6
c.-201G>A
upstream_gene
N/AENSP00000354499.2
MT-ND2
ENST00000361453.3
TSL:6
c.*192G>A
downstream_gene
N/AENSP00000355046.4

Frequencies

Mitomap GenBank
The variant is not present, suggesting it is rare.
Alfa
AF:
0.00
Hom.:
0

Mitomap

Disease(s): CPEO-/-MM
Status: Cfrm-[P]
Publication(s): 8254046

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic
Submissions summary: Pathogenic:3
Revision: reviewed by expert panel
LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Ophthalmoplegia, isolated Pathogenic:1
Jan 01, 2003
OMIM
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:no assertion criteria provided
Collection Method:literature only

Mitochondrial disease Pathogenic:1
Feb 13, 2023
ClinGen Mitochondrial Disease Nuclear and Mitochondrial Variant Curation Expert Panel, ClinGen
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:reviewed by expert panel
Collection Method:curation

The m.5703G>A variant in MT-TN has been reported in four unrelated individuals with primary mitochondrial disease (PS4_moderate). These four individuals were from three different backgrounds including African American (one individual), Chinese (one individual), and Caucasian (two individuals, one from France and one from Spain). Features seen in affected individuals include myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO), as well as exercise intolerance, severe underweight, and hearing loss (PMIDs: 8254046, 14518831, 30897601, 32419253). The variant in these four cases was seen at varying degrees of heteroplasmy in muscle (14-80%), blood (5-48%), urine (4-11%), and buccal (7-59%). The variant was reported to have arisen de novo in three of the four affected individuals (PM6_strong, PMIDs: 8254046, 30897601, 32419253) and no details about family member testing were provided for the other individual. Furthermore, the variant’s presence in individuals of different ethnic backgrounds was also considered as indirect evidence of a de novo occurrence at some time in the past. There are no other large families reported in the medical literature to consider for evidence of segregation. There is one occurrence of this variant in GenBank dataset and it is absent in gnomAD v3.1.2 and in the Helix dataset, therefore the overall frequency is still very low (PM2_supporting). The computational predictor MitoTIP predicts this variant to be pathogenic, scoring in the 89.9 percentile and HmtVAR also predicts it to be pathogenic with a score of 0.85 (PP3). Multiple independent studies support the functional impact of this variant (PS3_supporting). Single-fiber testing in two of the four affected individuals was performed and showed that the variant was present at higher heteroplasmy in COX-negative fibers than COX-positive fibers (93% heteroplasmy in COX-negative fibers compared to 2% in COX-positive fibers in one individual, P<.0001, PMID: 32419253; and 97-100% in COX-negative fibers compared to 3-63% in COX-positive fibers in the other individual, PMID: 8254046). Furthermore, cybrids with high levels of the variant demonstrated a severe mitochondrial protein synthesis defect and impaired oxidative phosphorylation (PMIDs: 8254046, 9372914). tRNA conformational studies showed impaired aminoacylation with severe reduction of the tRNA Asn pool (PMID: 9372914). In summary, this variant meets criteria to be classified as likely pathogenic however, after extensive discussion, this Expert Panel elected to modify the classification to pathogenic given consistent functional evidence of severe deleterious effect across multiple independent studies and given repeated apparent de novo occurrences across individuals of different ethnic backgrounds. This classification was approved by the NICHD/NINDS U24 ClinGen Mitochondrial Disease Variant Curation Expert Panel on February 13, 2023. Mitochondrial DNA-specific ACMG/AMP criteria applied (PMID: 32906214): PS4_moderate, PS3_supporting, PP3, PM2_supporting, PM6_strong.

Mitochondrial complex IV deficiency, nuclear type 1 Pathogenic:1
May 04, 2022
Mendelics
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.9

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
Mitotip
Pathogenic
18
Hmtvar
Pathogenic
0.85
PhyloP100
1.6

Publications

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs199476130; hg19: chrM-5704; API