Skip to content
GenoLensGenoLens

MARS2

Chr 2q33.1

methionyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial

Aliases:
mtMetRS, SPAX3
MANE:
ENST00000282276.8

Annotations refreshed 1 month ago.

Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia with onset in adulthood

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Mitochondrial disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Possible mitochondrial disorder - nuclear genes

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Undiagnosed metabolic disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

+5 more panels — install the extension to see the full list inline on any page.

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • spastic ataxia 3

    0.73
  • Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia with leukoencephalopathy

    0.70
  • combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 25

    0.63
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.54
  • inborn mitochondrial metabolism disorder

    0.37
  • mitochondrial disease

    0.37
  • lysosomal storage disease

    0.26
  • cervical carcinoma

    0.23
  • obesity disorder

    0.13
  • overnutrition

    0.12

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.