rs1555942389

chr22-30950382-T-C

Variant summary

Our verdict is Uncertain significance. Variant got 4 ACMG points: 4P and 0B. PM2 PP2 PP3

The NM_001303256.3(MORC2):c.221A>G(p.Asp74Gly) variant causes a missense change involving the alteration of a conserved nucleotide. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.00000073 in 1,370,652 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: 28)
  • Exomes 𝑓: 7.3e-7 (0 hom.)
• Consequence: MORC2 NM_001303256.3 missense
• Clinical Significance: Uncertain significance criteria provided, single submitter U:1
• Conservation: PhyloP100: 7.44

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 Uncertain_significance. Variant got 4 ACMG points.

• PM2: Very rare variant in population databases, with high coverage
• PP2: Missense variant where missense usually causes diseases, MORC2
• PP3: MetaRNN computational evidence supports a deleterious effect, 0.804

Transcripts

RefSeq

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	MANE	UniProt
MORC2	NM_001303256.3	c.221A>G	p.Asp74Gly	missense_variant	4/26	ENST00000397641.8

Ensembl

Gene	Transcript	HGVSc	HGVSp	Effect	#exon/exons	TSL	MANE	Appris	UniProt
MORC2	ENST00000397641.8	c.221A>G	p.Asp74Gly	missense_variant	4/26	5	NM_001303256.3	P1
MORC2	ENST00000215862.8	c.35A>G	p.Asp12Gly	missense_variant	5/27	1
MORC2	ENST00000476152.2	n.343A>G		non_coding_transcript_exon_variant	3/7	5

Frequencies

GnomAD3 genomes Cov.: 28

GnomAD4 exome AF: 7.30e-7 AC: 1 AN: 1370652 Hom.: 0 Cov.: 31 AF XY: 0.00 AC XY: 0 AN XY: 683154

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: 0.00

Gnomad4 FIN exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 NFE exome AF: 0.00

Gnomad4 OTH exome AF: 0.0000179

GnomAD4 genome Cov.: 28

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

Nov 13, 2023

This sequence change replaces aspartic acid, which is acidic and polar, with glycine, which is neutral and non-polar, at codon 74 of the MORC2 protein (p.Asp74Gly). This variant is not present in population databases (gnomAD no frequency). This variant has not been reported in the literature in individuals affected with MORC2-related conditions. ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 475596). 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 with a positive predictive value of 95%. 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	0.24
BayesDel_addAF	Pathogenic	0.32	D
BayesDel_noAF	Pathogenic	0.22
Cadd	Pathogenic	29
Dann	Uncertain	1.0
DEOGEN2	Uncertain	0.73	D;.
Eigen	Uncertain	0.67
Eigen_PC	Pathogenic	0.68
FATHMM_MKL	Pathogenic	0.98	D
LIST_S2	Uncertain	0.95	D;D
M_CAP	Uncertain	0.092	D
MetaRNN	Pathogenic	0.80	D;D
MetaSVM	Uncertain	-0.060	T
MutationAssessor	Benign	2.0	M;.
MutationTaster	Benign	1.0	D;D
PrimateAI	Uncertain	0.76	T
PROVEAN	Uncertain	-3.5	D;D
REVEL	Uncertain	0.60
Sift	Uncertain	0.021	D;D
Sift4G	Uncertain	0.045	D;D
Polyphen		0.96	D;.
Vest4		0.85
MutPred		0.34		Gain of catalytic residue at D74 (P = 0.0039);.;
MVP		0.85
MPC		2.1
ClinPred		0.99	D
GERP RS		5.7
Varity_R		0.74
gMVP		0.88

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: rs1555942389; hg19: chr22-31346368;