GENE REFERENCE / HGNC:2974

DNM2

dynamin 2

protein-coding gene19p13.2Gene information

What does this gene do?

The DNM2 gene provides instructions for making a protein called dynamin 2. Dynamin 2 is present in cells throughout the body. It is involved in endocytosis, which is a process that brings substances into the cell. During endocytosis, the cell membrane folds around a substance (such as a protein) outside the cell to form a sac-like structure called a vesicle. The vesicle is drawn into the cell and is pinched off from the cell membrane. Dynamin 2 is thought to play a key role in altering the cell membrane to form these vesicles.

Dynamin 2 is also involved in the cell's structural framework (cytoskeleton). The protein interacts with multiple parts of the cytoskeleton, including tube-like structures called microtubules and proteins called actin, which organize into filaments to provide structure. These parts of the cytoskeleton are involved in movement of molecules within the cells, cell shape, cell mobility, and attachment of cells to one another.

Source: MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine. Source publication: 2020-08-18. Source review: 2015-11.

ClinGen reviews

ClinGen reviews the evidence linking a particular gene to a condition. Each rating below describes the strength of that link. It does not classify a variant in your DNA file.

Condition	Inheritance	Evidence
Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseaseMONDO:0015626 · Evaluated 2020-10-27	Autosomal dominant	DefinitiveCharcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Gene Curation Expert Panel
autosomal dominant centronuclear myopathyMONDO:0008048 · Evaluated 2019-12-20	Autosomal dominant	DefinitiveCongenital Myopathies and Myasthenic Syndromes Gene Curation Expert Panel

ClinVar records

These numbers show what has been submitted to ClinVar. They cannot tell you how likely you are to have a condition.

Submitted alleles: 1,455
Submissions for variants in or overlapping this gene: 2,575
Submissions explicitly reporting this gene: 2,525
Alleles reported pathogenic / likely pathogenic: 31
VariationIDs with uncertain significance: 629
VariationIDs with conflicting classifications: 82

The rows count different things: alleles, submissions or VariationIDs. Their categories can overlap, so do not add them together. Pathogenic/likely pathogenic counts exclude structural variants that merely overlap a gene. A dash in the source means “not reported,” not zero.

NCBI produces the gene-summary file each week using counts recorded at the start of the month. The numbers may differ from those on the live ClinVar website. Read the field definitions ↗

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YOUR DNA FILE

Can your DNA file tell you about DNM2?

From a DNA test kit (such as 23andMe, AncestryDNA or MyHeritage). These kits check a fixed list of about 600,000 to 700,000 positions across your whole genome. ClinVar lists 31 alleles in DNM2 reported as pathogenic or likely pathogenic. A kit checks only some of these positions, and often none of them.

From whole genome sequencing (a VCF file). Sequencing reads most of your genome. Your file lists the places where your DNA differs from the reference genome. Some regions are hard to sequence, including parts of some genes that have near-identical copies elsewhere, and a VCF file does not record which positions were read well.

If a variant is not in your file, that does not mean you don’t have it.

What BioDecode checks

BioDecode compares every variant in your file with ClinVar, on your own computer. For each match, it shows the ClinVar classification, the review status and the condition it was reported for. Your file is not uploaded.

A ClinVar classification applies to one particular variant and the condition it was reported for. It does not tell you about other variants in DNM2.

BioDecode cannot fill gaps in your test, diagnose a condition or replace clinical testing.

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