NM_014874.4:c.776G>T

Variant summary

Our verdict is Pathogenic. The variant received 19 ACMG points: 19P and 0B. PM1PM2PM5PP2PP3_StrongPP5_Very_Strong

The NM_014874.4(MFN2):​c.776G>T​(p.Arg259Leu) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,884 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. 13/22 in silico tools predict a damaging outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Likely pathogenic (★★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. R259H) has been classified as Likely pathogenic.

Frequency

Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 ( 0 hom. )

Consequence

MFN2
NM_014874.4 missense

Scores

15
3
1

Clinical Significance

Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts P:2U:1

Conservation

PhyloP100: 9.60

Publications

9 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
MFN2 (HGNC:16877): (mitofusin 2) This gene encodes a mitochondrial membrane protein that participates in mitochondrial fusion and contributes to the maintenance and operation of the mitochondrial network. This protein is involved in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, and it may play a role in the pathophysiology of obesity. Mutations in this gene cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2, and hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy VI, which are both disorders of the peripheral nervous system. Defects in this gene have also been associated with early-onset stroke. Two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
MFN2 Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory, type 6A
    Inheritance: AD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: G2P
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, autosomal recessive, type 2a2b;
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG Submitted by: Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), G2P
  • axonal hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
    Inheritance: SD Classification: DEFINITIVE Submitted by: ClinGen
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2
    Inheritance: AD Classification: STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
  • hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 6
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • multiple symmetric lipomatosis
    Inheritance: AD Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet
  • severe early-onset axonal neuropathy due to MFN2 deficiency
    Inheritance: AR Classification: SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Orphanet

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ACMG classification

Classification was made for transcript

Our verdict: Pathogenic. The variant received 19 ACMG points.

PM1
In a hotspot region, there are 6 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 0 benign, 13 uncertain in NM_014874.4
PM2
Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage;
PM5
Other missense variant is known to change same aminoacid residue: Variant chr1-11999055-G-A is described in ClinVar as Conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity. ClinVar VariationId is 577496.
PP2
Missense variant in the MFN2 gene, where missense mutations are typically associated with disease (based on misZ statistic). The gene has 123 curated pathogenic missense variants (we use a threshold of 10). The gene has 23 curated benign missense variants. Gene score misZ: 1.6575 (below the threshold of 3.09). Trascript score misZ: 3.2174 (above the threshold of 3.09). GenCC associations: The gene is linked to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, autosomal recessive, type 2a2b;, severe early-onset axonal neuropathy due to MFN2 deficiency, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 6, axonal hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, multiple symmetric lipomatosis, neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory, type 6A.
PP3
MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.977
PP5
Variant 1-11999055-G-T is Pathogenic according to our data. Variant chr1-11999055-G-T is described in ClinVar as Pathogenic/Likely_pathogenic. ClinVar VariationId is 637279.Status of the report is criteria_provided_multiple_submitters_no_conflicts, 2 stars.

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank MANE Protein UniProt
MFN2NM_014874.4 linkc.776G>T p.Arg259Leu missense_variant Exon 8 of 19 ENST00000235329.10 NP_055689.1 O95140-1

Ensembl

Gene Transcript HGVSc HGVSp Effect Exon rank TSL MANE Protein Appris UniProt
MFN2ENST00000235329.10 linkc.776G>T p.Arg259Leu missense_variant Exon 8 of 19 1 NM_014874.4 ENSP00000235329.5 O95140-1

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes
Cov.:
32
GnomAD2 exomes
AF:
0.00000398
AC:
1
AN:
251492
AF XY:
0.00000736
show subpopulations
Gnomad AFR exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad AMR exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad ASJ exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad EAS exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad FIN exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad NFE exome
AF:
0.00
Gnomad OTH exome
AF:
0.00
GnomAD4 exome
AF:
6.84e-7
AC:
1
AN:
1461884
Hom.:
0
Cov.:
32
AF XY:
0.00000138
AC XY:
1
AN XY:
727244
show subpopulations
⚠️ The allele balance in gnomAD version 4 Exomes is significantly skewed from the expected value of 0.5.
African (AFR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
33480
American (AMR)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
44724
Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
26136
East Asian (EAS)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
39700
South Asian (SAS)
AF:
0.0000116
AC:
1
AN:
86258
European-Finnish (FIN)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
53420
Middle Eastern (MID)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
5768
European-Non Finnish (NFE)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
1112002
Other (OTH)
AF:
0.00
AC:
0
AN:
60396
⚠️ The allele balance in gnomAD4 Exomes is highly skewed from 0.5 (p-value = 0.000000), which strongly suggests a high chance of mosaicism in these individuals.
Allele Balance Distribution
Red line indicates average allele balance
Average allele balance: 0.375
Heterozygous variant carriers
0
0
1
1
2
2
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
0.95
Allele balance
GnomAD4 genome
Cov.:
32

ClinVar

Significance: Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic
Submissions summary: Pathogenic:2Uncertain:1
Revision: criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
LINK: link

Submissions by phenotype

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 Pathogenic:1
Dec 27, 2018
Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp
Significance:Pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

This sequence change replaces arginine with leucine at codon 259 of the MFN2 protein (p.Arg259Leu). The arginine residue is highly conserved and there is a moderate physicochemical difference between arginine and leucine. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). For these reasons, this variant has been classified as Pathogenic. This variant disrupts the p.Arg259 amino acid residue in MFN2. Other variant(s) that disrupt this residue have been observed in individuals with MFN2-related conditions (PMID: 25957633, 24450158, 22492563, 24863639, 24627108), suggesting that it is a clinically significant residue. As a result, variants that disrupt this residue are likely to be causative of disease. Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function (SIFT, PolyPhen-2, Align-GVGD) all suggest that this variant is likely to be disruptive, but these predictions have not been confirmed by published functional studies and their clinical significance is uncertain. This variant has been observed to be de novo in an individual affected with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (PMID: 19350291). -

not provided Pathogenic:1
Jan 07, 2025
GeneDx
Significance:Likely pathogenic
Review Status:criteria provided, single submitter
Collection Method:clinical testing

In silico analysis supports that this missense variant has a deleterious effect on protein structure/function; This variant is associated with the following publications: (PMID: 25525159, 30442897, 33136338, 24863639, 19350291) -

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Uncertain:1
-
Inherited Neuropathy Consortium
Significance:Uncertain significance
Review Status:no assertion criteria provided
Collection Method:literature only

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Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
AlphaMissense
Pathogenic
1.0
BayesDel_addAF
Pathogenic
0.48
D
BayesDel_noAF
Pathogenic
0.55
CADD
Pathogenic
34
DANN
Uncertain
1.0
DEOGEN2
Pathogenic
0.88
D;D
Eigen
Pathogenic
0.99
Eigen_PC
Pathogenic
0.95
FATHMM_MKL
Pathogenic
0.98
D
LIST_S2
Pathogenic
0.99
D;.
M_CAP
Pathogenic
0.49
D
MetaRNN
Pathogenic
0.98
D;D
MetaSVM
Pathogenic
1.1
D
MutationAssessor
Pathogenic
3.2
M;M
PhyloP100
9.6
PrimateAI
Pathogenic
0.91
D
PROVEAN
Pathogenic
-6.2
D;D
REVEL
Pathogenic
0.95
Sift
Uncertain
0.0010
D;D
Sift4G
Uncertain
0.0020
D;D
Polyphen
1.0
D;D
Vest4
0.95
MutPred
0.88
Loss of MoRF binding (P = 0.0324);Loss of MoRF binding (P = 0.0324);
MVP
0.98
MPC
2.0
ClinPred
0.99
D
GERP RS
5.6
RBP_binding_hub_radar
0.0
RBP_regulation_power_radar
1.7
Varity_R
0.87
gMVP
0.99
Mutation Taster
=1/99
disease causing (ClinVar)

Splicing

Name
Calibrated prediction
Score
Prediction
SpliceAI score (max)
0.060
Details are displayed if max score is > 0.2

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

Publications

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs755065651; hg19: chr1-12059112; API