chr22-30941457-A-C

Position:

• chr22-30941457-A-C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely pathogenic. Variant got 7 ACMG points: 7P and 0B. PM1 PM2 PP2 PP3_Moderate

The NM_001303256.3(MORC2):​c.800T>G​(p.Leu267Arg) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,626 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a pathogenic outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★).

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: MORC2 NM_001303256.3 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 8.94

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]

ACMG classification

Verdict is Likely_pathogenic. Variant got 7 ACMG points.

• PM1: In a hotspot region, there are 2 aminoacids with missense pathogenic changes in the window of +-8 aminoacids around while only 0 benign, 4 uncertain in NM_001303256.3
• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP2: Missense variant in gene, where missense usually causes diseases (based on misZ statistic), MORC2. . Gene score misZ 3.2251 (greater than the threshold 3.09). Trascript score misZ 4.4393 (greater than threshold 3.09). GenCC has associacion of gene with Leigh syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease axonal type 2Z, developmental delay, impaired growth, dysmorphic facies, and axonal neuropathy.
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.902

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
MORC2	NM_001303256.3	c.800T>G	p.Leu267Arg	missense_variant	9/26	ENST00000397641.8

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
MORC2	ENST00000397641.8	c.800T>G	p.Leu267Arg	missense_variant	9/26	5	NM_001303256.3	P1
MORC2	ENST00000215862.8	c.614T>G	p.Leu205Arg	missense_variant	10/27	1
MORC2	ENST00000469915.1	n.354T>G		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	3/6	3
MORC2	ENST00000675601.1	n.642T>G		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	5/22

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD4 exome AF: 6.84e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1461626 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00000138 AC XY: 1 AN XY: 727094

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: 0.0000116

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.00

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease axonal type 2Z Uncertain:1

Uncertain significance, criteria provided, single submitter

clinical testing

Invitae

Jul 25, 2022

Advanced modeling of protein sequence and biophysical properties (such as structural, functional, and spatial information, amino acid conservation, physicochemical variation, residue mobility, and thermodynamic stability) performed at Invitae indicates that this missense variant is expected to disrupt MORC2 protein function. In summary, the available evidence is currently insufficient to determine the role of this variant in disease. Therefore, it has been classified as a Variant of Uncertain Significance. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 542287). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with MORC2-related conditions. This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This sequence change replaces leucine, which is neutral and non-polar, with arginine, which is basic and polar, at codon 205 of the MORC2 protein (p.Leu205Arg). -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Pathogenic	0.98
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.41	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.35
CADD	Pathogenic	27
DANN	Uncertain	1.0
DEOGEN2	Uncertain	0.48	T;.
Eigen	Pathogenic	0.87
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.83
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.99	D
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.96	D;D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.21	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.90	D;D
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.33	D
MutationAssessor	Pathogenic	3.2	M;.
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
PrimateAI	Pathogenic	0.89	D
PROVEAN	Pathogenic	-5.8	D;D
REVEL	Pathogenic	0.85
Sift	Pathogenic	0.0	D;D
Sift4G	Pathogenic	0.0010	D;D
Polyphen		1.0	D;.
Vest4		0.98
MutPred		0.69		Loss of sheet (P = 0.0011);.;
MVP		0.92
MPC		2.5
ClinPred		1.0	D
GERP RS		5.5
RBP_binding_hub_radar		0.0
RBP_regulation_power_radar		1.8
Varity_R		0.92
gMVP		0.96

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: rs1555939986; hg19: chr22-31337444;