ClinVar

Description

Variant summary: CPT2 c.1025T>C (p.Met342Thr) results in a non-conservative amino acid change in the encoded protein sequence. Four of five in-silico tools predict a damaging effect of the variant on protein function. The variant allele was found at a frequency of 0.001 in 251094 control chromosomes, predominantly at a frequency of 0.0023 within the Finnish European subpopulation in the gnomAD database. In addition, the variant was found with even higher in certain European subpopulations, including the Estonian (0.007654), and Bulgarian (0.007121). These subpopulation frequencies are significantly higher than estimated maximum expected for a pathogenic variant in CPT2 causing Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase II Deficiency (0.0016), suggesting that the variant might be benign. To our knowledge, no occurrence of c.1025T>C in individuals affected with Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase II Deficiency and no experimental evidence demonstrating its impact on protein function have been reported. Ten submitters have cited clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar after 2014 and classified the variant as VUS (n=9) or likely benign (n=1). Based on the evidence outlined above, the variant was classified as likely benign.