Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, autosomal recessive, type 2a2b;
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Also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2BCMT2A2B
Summary
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, autosomal recessive, type 2a2b; (MONDO:0014906) is a disease caused by MFN2 (GenCC Definitive), with 1 cohort gene and 1 clinical trial.
At a glance
- Causal gene: MFN2 (GenCC Definitive)
- Cohort genes: 1
- ClinVar variants: 51
- Clinical trials: 1
Clinical features
No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.
Identifiers
Disease identifiers
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, autosomal recessive, type 2a2b; |
| Mondo ID | MONDO:0014906 |
| OMIM | 617087 |
| DOID | DOID:0111557 |
| NCIT | C150647 |
| UMLS | C4310725 |
| MedGen | 934692 |
| GARD | 0025032 |
| Is cancer (heuristic) | no |
Also known as: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2B · CMT2A2B
Data availability: 51 ClinVar variants · 2 GenCC gene-disease records.
Disease family
Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › nervous system disorder › peripheral nervous system disorder › peripheral neuropathy › hereditary peripheral neuropathy › Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease › Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, autosomal recessive, type 2a2b;
Related subtypes (23): Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Guadalajara neuronal type, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with ptosis and parkinsonism, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 3, neuronopathy, distal hereditary motor, autosomal dominant 1, neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory, type 6A, demyelinating hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type X, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, mitochondrial form, 1, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, type 2FF, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, Type 2HH, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, demyelinating, IIA 1I, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, demyelinating, IIA 1H, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, IIa 2II, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, demyelinating, type 1G, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, demyelinating, type 1J, Charcot-Marie-tooth disease, axonal, type 2JJ, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, type 2KK, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, axonal, type 2LL, charcot-marie-tooth disease, axonal, type 2MM
Genetics & variants
GWAS landscape
No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.
Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers
ClinVar germline variants
51 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:
15 uncertain significance, 14 conflicting classifications of pathogenicity, 8 pathogenic, 5 benign/likely benign, 5 pathogenic/likely pathogenic, 3 likely pathogenic, 1 not provided
| ClinVar | Variant (HGVS) | Gene | Classification | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1703243 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.600-31T>G | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter |
| 2268 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.281G>A (p.Arg94Gln) | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 2269 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2219G>C (p.Trp740Ser) | MFN2 | Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 2271 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.839G>A (p.Arg280His) | MFN2 | Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 2276 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.280C>T (p.Arg94Trp) | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 2280 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2119C>T (p.Arg707Trp) | MFN2 | Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 2281 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.310C>T (p.Arg104Trp) | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 30736 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.647T>C (p.Phe216Ser) | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 30737 | NM_014874.3:c.600_816del | MFN2 | Pathogenic | no assertion criteria provided |
| 30738 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.1085C>T (p.Thr362Met) | MFN2 | Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 3376754 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.1817del (p.Gly606fs) | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter |
| 3382575 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.1822_1826dup (p.Leu610fs) | MFN2 | Pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter |
| 587402 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.334G>A (p.Val112Met) | MFN2 | Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 2882121 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2170C>A (p.Leu724Ile) | MFN2 | Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, single submitter |
| 543243 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.1160+1G>A | MFN2 | Likely pathogenic | criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts |
| 549684 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.154G>A (p.Glu52Lys) | MFN2 | Likely pathogenic | no assertion criteria provided |
| 1806999 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2120G>A (p.Arg707Gln) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 214642 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.842G>C (p.Cys281Ser) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 214653 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.749G>A (p.Arg250Gln) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 243074 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.526G>A (p.Gly176Ser) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 30734 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.107AGA[2] (p.Lys38del) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 3896911 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.785C>T (p.Ala262Val) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 420586 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2230G>A (p.Glu744Lys) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 439898 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.1101G>C (p.Gln367His) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 543219 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.748C>T (p.Arg250Trp) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 549683 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.404G>A (p.Arg135Gln) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 581439 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.271G>T (p.Val91Leu) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 637433 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2258dup (p.Gln754fs) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
| 637936 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.322G>A (p.Gly108Arg) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | no assertion criteria provided |
| 999667 | NM_014874.4(MFN2):c.2232G>T (p.Glu744Asp) | MFN2 | Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity | criteria provided, conflicting classifications |
Genes & proteins
Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers
GenCC: 11 · Orphanet: 5 · OMIM-shared: 0 · Dual-evidence (GWAS+Mendelian): 0
GenCC gene–disease validity (cohort genes)
the Disease column is the GenCC-asserted condition — a cohort gene’s strongest validity may be for a related predisposition syndrome.
| Gene | Classification | Inheritance | Disease | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | Definitive | Semidominant | axonal hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy | 11 |
Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)
| Gene | Orphanet ID | Rare disease |
|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | Orphanet:2398 | Multiple symmetric lipomatosis |
| MFN2 | Orphanet:64751 | Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 5 |
| MFN2 | Orphanet:90118 | Severe early-onset axonal neuropathy due to MFN2 deficiency |
| MFN2 | Orphanet:90120 | Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 6 |
| MFN2 | Orphanet:99947 | Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2 |
Cohort genes → proteins
1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.
Evidence partition
| Subset | Genes |
|---|---|
| multi_evidence | 1 |
Cohort genes (full)
| Symbol | HGNC | Ensembl | UniProt | Name | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | HGNC:16877 | ENSG00000116688 | O95140 | Mitofusin-2 | gencc,clinvar |
Cohort function summary
Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.
| Symbol | Protein name | Function (lead sentence) |
|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | Mitofusin-2 | Mitochondrial outer membrane GTPase that mediates mitochondrial clustering and fusion. |
Protein-family classification
Druggable: 0 · Difficult: 0 · Unknown: 1 · Druggable fraction: 0.0
Family distribution
Cohort families vs a genome-wide background (hypergeometric, BH-FDR; fold = observed/expected). Counts kept; sorted by enrichment, so the catch-all Other/Unknown bucket no longer leads.
| Family | Genes | Fold | FDR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other/Unknown | 1 | 1.8× | 0.558 |
Per-gene assignment
| Symbol | Family | Druggable? | EC | InterPro (top 3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | Other/Unknown | no | Fzo/mitofusin_HR2, Mitofusin_fam, P-loop_NTPase |
Expression context
Cohort genes with no expression data: 0.
1 cohort gene are a single-cell marker in ≥1 SCXA experiment.
Breadth distribution (Bgee present_calls)
| Bucket | Genes |
|---|---|
| narrow (1-5 tissues) | 0 |
| moderate (6-20) | 0 |
| broad (>20) | 1 |
| unknown | 0 |
Top tissues across cohort
| Tissue | Cohort genes |
|---|---|
| apex of heart | 1 |
| cardiac ventricle | 1 |
| heart left ventricle | 1 |
Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)
| Symbol | Bgee breadth | FANTOM5 breadth | SCXA | Top tissues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | 297 | ubiquitous | marker | apex of heart, heart left ventricle, cardiac ventricle |
Protein interactions among cohort
Intra-cohort edges: 0.
Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)
| Symbol | Interactor count |
|---|---|
| MFN2 | 3,853 |
Structural data
PDB: 1 · AlphaFold-only: 0 · No structure: 0
Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)
| Symbol | UniProt | PDB entries |
|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | O95140 | 3 |
Function
Pathway analysis
Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 11. Enrichment computed across 1 evidence-associated genes (1 with Reactome annotation).
Pathways by enrichment
Over-representation of cohort genes vs the genome-wide background (hypergeometric test, Benjamini-Hochberg FDR; fold = observed/expected over 1 annotated cohort genes). Counts and members are kept as ground-truth; sorted by enrichment.
| Pathway | Cohort genes | Fold | FDR | Sample cohort genes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miro GTPase Cycle | 1 | 2284.0× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| RHOT2 GTPase cycle | 1 | 1631.4× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| Mitophagy | 1 | 1038.2× | 0.004 | MFN2 |
| PINK1-PRKN Mediated Mitophagy | 1 | 356.9× | 0.008 | MFN2 |
| Selective autophagy | 1 | 278.5× | 0.008 | MFN2 |
| Autophagy | 1 | 148.3× | 0.012 | MFN2 |
| Macroautophagy | 1 | 115.3× | 0.014 | MFN2 |
| Factors involved in megakaryocyte development and platelet production | 1 | 66.4× | 0.021 | MFN2 |
| Hemostasis | 1 | 36.0× | 0.033 | MFN2 |
| Signaling by Rho GTPases, Miro GTPases and RHOBTB3 | 1 | 33.5× | 0.033 | MFN2 |
| Signal Transduction | 1 | 10.2× | 0.098 | MFN2 |
GO biological processes by enrichment
Over-representation of cohort genes vs the genome-wide background (hypergeometric test, Benjamini-Hochberg FDR; fold = observed/expected over 1 annotated cohort genes). Counts and members are kept as ground-truth; sorted by enrichment.
| GO term | Cohort genes | Fold | FDR | Sample cohort genes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| type 2 mitophagy | 1 | 3370.4× | 0.002 | MFN2 |
| mitochondrial membrane organization | 1 | 2407.4× | 0.002 | MFN2 |
| positive regulation of vascular associated smooth muscle cell apoptotic process | 1 | 2106.5× | 0.002 | MFN2 |
| mitochondrion localization | 1 | 1685.2× | 0.002 | MFN2 |
| protein localization to phagophore assembly site | 1 | 991.3× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| mitochondrial fusion | 1 | 842.6× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| blastocyst formation | 1 | 766.0× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| camera-type eye morphogenesis | 1 | 766.0× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| negative regulation of Ras protein signal transduction | 1 | 674.1× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| negative regulation of smooth muscle cell proliferation | 1 | 624.1× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| obsolete protein targeting to mitochondrion | 1 | 581.1× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| positive regulation of vascular associated smooth muscle cell proliferation | 1 | 432.1× | 0.003 | MFN2 |
| response to unfolded protein | 1 | 300.9× | 0.004 | MFN2 |
| aerobic respiration | 1 | 247.8× | 0.005 | MFN2 |
| positive regulation of cold-induced thermogenesis | 1 | 163.6× | 0.007 | MFN2 |
| apoptotic process | 1 | 28.7× | 0.035 | MFN2 |
Therapeutics
Drug target analysis
Approved (phase 4): 0 · Phase ≥3: 0 · Phased (≥1): 0 · Undrugged: 1
Druggability breadth: 1 of 1 evidence-associated genes (100%) have a ChEMBL target (buckets above are over the deeply-mined display cohort).
Top cohort targets by molecule count
| Symbol | Molecules | Max phase |
|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | 0 | 0 |
Bioactivity and enzyme data
Enzyme cohort genes (≥1 EC): 0.
Cohort genes with ChEMBL bioactivity (full, sorted by assay count)
| Symbol | Assays | Type breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | 3 | Binding:3 |
Pharmacogenomics
Cohort genes with a PharmGKB record: 1; with CPIC/DPWG dosing guidelines: 0.
No cohort gene has a CPIC/DPWG genotype-guided dosing guideline (PharmGKB).
Chemical tractability of cohort targets
0 approved/phased compounds have measured bioactivity against a cohort gene (and aren’t yet in disease-level trials). This is a research / tractability signal, NOT a therapeutic recommendation — a bioactivity row often reflects off-target or screening binding (e.g. promiscuous kinase inhibitors against a cohort kinase), implying no disease mechanism.
Druggability pyramid
Cohort genes binned by druggability tier (high → low):
| Tier | Definition | Genes | Symbols |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Approved (phase 4 drug) | 0 | |
| B | Phased (≥1) drug, not yet approved | 0 | |
| C | Druggable family + PDB, no drug | 0 | |
| D | Druggable family + AlphaFold only, no drug | 0 | |
| E | Difficult family or no structure, no drug | 1 | MFN2 |
Undrugged target profiles
1 cohort genes are undrugged. Ranked by ‘starting-point quality’ (assay depth + drugged-partner adjacency).
| Symbol | ChEMBL assays | Drugged partners (top 3) |
|---|---|---|
| MFN2 | 3 | — |
Clinical trials & evidence
Clinical trials
Clinical trials: 1.
Phase distribution (across all retrieved trials)
| Phase | Trials |
|---|---|
| Not specified | 1 |
Top trials by phase / activity
| NCT | Phase | Status | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCT05902351 | Not specified | RECRUITING | Natural History Study for Charcot Marie Tooth Disease |
Related Atlas pages
- Cohort genes: MFN2