MFN2, mitofusin 2, 9927

N. diseases: 334; N. variants: 75
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.260 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In conclusion, these results indicated that deregulation of mfn2 might be involved in mitochondrial dysfunction during the progression of AD, and its decreased expression was regulated at least in part by miR-195 in AD mice. 27693395 2016
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.260 Biomarker disease BEFREE To examine whether and how impaired mitochondrial fission/fusion balance causes neurodegeneration in AD, we developed a transgenic mouse model using the CAMKII promoter to knockout neuronal Mfn2 in the hippocampus and cortex, areas significantly affected in AD. 29391029 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.260 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE HDAC2 overexpression also modulates neuronal expression of mitofusin2 (Mfn2) and mitochondrial fission factor (MFF), recapitulating the pattern of change observed in AD. 30028551 2019
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.010 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here we report, for the first time, the occurrence of motor neuron disease, consistent with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in a 62-year-old woman affected by early-onset slowly progressive CMT2A, due to a novel MFN2 mutation. 20951041 2011
CUI: C0002871
Disease: Anemia
Anemia
0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE Hepcidin mRNA expression was increased in OBDM with anemia even in basal Fe concentration, and mitofusin 2 was decreased in all experimental conditions. 22426798 2012
CUI: C0003126
Disease: Anosmia
Anosmia
0.100 Biomarker phenotype HPO
CUI: C0239377
Disease: Arm Pain
Arm Pain
0.100 Biomarker phenotype HPO
CUI: C0003850
Disease: Arteriosclerosis
Arteriosclerosis
0.010 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Aberrant MFN2 transcription facilitates homocysteine-induced VSMCs proliferation via the increased binding of c-Myc to DNMT1 in atherosclerosis. 31104361 2019
CUI: C0003851
Disease: Arteriosclerosis Obliterans
Arteriosclerosis Obliterans
0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE The results of the present study provide novel insight into the underlying mechanisms and roles of miR-31/MFN2 in the pathology of ASO, which may offer a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of ASO. 29403548 2018
CUI: C0003862
Disease: Arthralgia
Arthralgia
0.100 Biomarker phenotype HPO
CUI: C0403823
Disease: Asthenozoospermia
Asthenozoospermia
0.010 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The expression level of mitofusin 2 in human sperm was significantly different between the normozoospermia and asthenozoospermia groups ( P < 0.05); meanwhile, the sperm of the asthenozoospermia group had a lower mitochondrial membrane potential ( P < 0.05), but the results of TUNEL assay did not show significant difference between the two groups. 30058380 2018
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.010 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Aberrant MFN2 transcription facilitates homocysteine-induced VSMCs proliferation via the increased binding of c-Myc to DNMT1 in atherosclerosis. 31104361 2019
CUI: C0333641
Disease: Atrophic
Atrophic
0.010 GeneticVariation phenotype LHGDN [Mutations in the mitofusin 2 gene are the most common cause of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2 disease]. 17874344 2007
CUI: C1389102
Disease: Atrophy of the spinal cord
Atrophy of the spinal cord
0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE Hydromyelia and spinal cord atrophy support central nervous system involvement in CMT2A. 24957169 2014
CUI: C1968790
Disease: Axonal degeneration/regeneration
Axonal degeneration/regeneration
0.100 Biomarker phenotype HPO
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results suggest that the sharply reduced efficacy of oxidative phosphorylation in MFN2-related CMT2A may contribute to the pathophysiology of the axonal neuropathy. 17444508 2007
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Axonal neuropathy linked to the CMT2A locus was originally associated with a mutation in the KIF1B gene. 16043786 2005
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Molecular analysis aimed at detecting mutations of MFN2 could be extremely useful in mild axonal neuropathies with slow evolution and indispensable in cases of dominant inheritance or optic atrophy. 18996695 2008
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This CMT2A cohort study will be useful for molecular diagnosis and treatment of axonal neuropathy. 24863639 2015
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate the mode of inheritance in three individuals with severe early-onset axonal neuropathy and homozygous or compound heterozygous MFN2 mutations. 18458227 2008
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In small kindreds, specific MFN2 mutations have been reported to associate with severity of axonal neuropathy, optic atrophy, and involvement of the central nervous system. 21987543 2011
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Axonal neuropathy with optic atrophy is caused by mutations in mitofusin 2. 16437557 2006
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We found a novel MFN2 mutation - c.283A>G (p.Arg95Gly) - that results in an axonal neuropathy with variable clinical severity in a multigenerational family. 30642740 2019
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE MFN2 mutations cause axonal neuropathy, with associated lipodystrophy only occasionally noted, however homozygosity for the p.Arg707Trp mutation was recently associated with upper body adipose overgrowth. 28414270 2017
CUI: C0270921
Disease: Axonal neuropathy
Axonal neuropathy
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report on a 7-month-old white female with hypotonia, motor delay, distal weakness, and motor/sensory axonal neuropathy in which next-generation sequencing analysis identified compound heterozygous pathogenic variants (c.2054_2069_1170del and c.392A>G) in MFN2. 26955893 2016