rs1342700068

Variant names:

• chr1-11989190-T-C
• rs1342700068
• NM_014874.4:c.22T>C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. The variant received 1 ACMG points: 3P and 2B. PM2 PP2 BP4_Moderate

The NM_014874.4(MFN2):​c.22T>C​(p.Cys8Arg) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a non-conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.000000684 in 1,461,876 control chromosomes in the GnomAD database, with no homozygous occurrence. In-silico tool predicts a benign outcome for this variant. Variant has been reported in ClinVar as Uncertain significance (★). Another variant affecting the same amino acid position, but resulting in a different missense (i.e. C8W) has been classified as Uncertain significance.

• Frequency:
  • Genomes: not found (cov: 32)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 6.8e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: MFN2 NM_014874.4 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 3.08
• Publications: 0 publications found

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

ACMG classification

Our verdict: Uncertain_significance. The variant received 1 ACMG points.

• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• 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.
• BP4: Computational evidence support a benign effect (MetaRNN=0.22809044).

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	MANE	Protein	UniProt
MFN2	NM_014874.4	c.22T>C	p.Cys8Arg	missense_variant	Exon 3 of 19	ENST00000235329.10	NP_055689.1

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	Exon rank	TSL	MANE	Protein	Appris	UniProt
MFN2	ENST00000235329.10	c.22T>C	p.Cys8Arg	missense_variant	Exon 3 of 19	1	NM_014874.4	ENSP00000235329.5

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 32

GnomAD2 exomes AF: 0.00000398 AC: 1 AN: 251484 AF XY: 0.00

Gnomad AFR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad AMR exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad ASJ exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad EAS exome AF: 0.0000544

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: 1461876 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 727238

African (AFR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 33478

American (AMR) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 44724

Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 26136

East Asian (EAS) AF: 0.0000252 AC: 1 AN: 39700

South Asian (SAS) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 86258

European-Finnish (FIN) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 53412

Middle Eastern (MID) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 5766

European-Non Finnish (NFE) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 1112006

Other (OTH) AF: 0.00 AC: 0 AN: 60396

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 32

ClinVar

Significance: Uncertain significance

Submissions summary: Uncertain:1

Revision: criteria provided, single submitter

Submissions by phenotype

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 Uncertain:1

Feb 03, 2021

Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae), Labcorp

Significance: Uncertain significance

Review Status: criteria provided, single submitter

Collection Method: clinical testing

This sequence change replaces cysteine with arginine at codon 8 of the MFN2 protein (p.Cys8Arg). The cysteine residue is weakly conserved and there is a large physicochemical difference between cysteine and arginine. This variant is not present in population databases (ExAC no frequency). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals with MFN2-related 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 tolerated, but these predictions have not been confirmed by published functional studies and their clinical significance is uncertain. 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. -

Computational scores

Source: dbNSFP v4.3

Name	Calibrated prediction	Score	Prediction
AlphaMissense	Benign	0.095
BayesDel_addAF	Uncertain	0.054	T
BayesDel_noAF	Uncertain	0.010
CADD	Benign	22
DANN	Benign	0.95
DEOGEN2	Benign	0.22	T;T;.
Eigen	Benign	-0.30
Eigen_PC	Benign	-0.068
FATHMM_MKL	Uncertain	0.85	D
LIST_S2	Benign	0.85	D;.;D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.21	D
MetaRNN	Benign	0.23	T;T;T
MetaSVM	Uncertain	0.48	D
MutationAssessor	Benign	0.69	N;N;.
PhyloP100		3.1
PrimateAI	Uncertain	0.55	T
PROVEAN	Benign	-0.65	N;N;N
REVEL	Uncertain	0.47
Sift	Benign	0.060	T;T;T
Sift4G	Benign	0.37	T;T;T
Polyphen		0.011	B;B;.
Vest4		0.49
MutPred		0.45		Gain of disorder (P = 0.0039);Gain of disorder (P = 0.0039);Gain of disorder (P = 0.0039);
MVP		0.73
MPC		1.3
ClinPred		0.38	T
GERP RS		4.7
Varity_R		0.42
gMVP		0.53
Mutation Taster		=82/18	polymorphism

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

Other links and lift over

dbSNP: rs1342700068; hg19: chr1-12049247;