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IEMbase 0706: MT-ND2-related NADH dehydrogenase core subunit 2 deficiency

Scope

Field Value
IEMbase ID 706
Nosology 6.1.19.01
Nosology code IEM0431
Gene MT-ND2
External IDs OMIM:252010; ORPHA:255210
Generated mapping UNMAPPED; weak generated candidate to Pyruvate_Dehydrogenase_Deficiency.yaml
Candidate DisMech targets Broad complex I/Leigh context only; no exact MT-ND2 target
Review date 2026-07-07

IEMbase phenotype signal

IEMbase represents maternally inherited MT-ND2-related NADH dehydrogenase core subunit 2 deficiency.

Biochemical rows show decreased fibroblast complex I activity and increased plasma lactate across all age windows, plus low-to-normal plasma glucose in neonatal and infantile windows. Clinical rows include exercise intolerance from infancy through adulthood and adolescent/adult Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. Characteristic rows add neonatal-to-childhood Leigh syndrome and ragged red fibers across all age windows.

DisMech phenotype coverage

No exact MT-ND2 local target was identified.

Leigh_Syndrome.yaml covers the broad syndrome-level relationship between complex I dysfunction and Leigh-spectrum disease. It does not model MT-ND2, ragged red fibers, or the LHON/exercise-intolerance presentation as a gene-specific disease. No exact LHON target was identified.

The weak generated Pyruvate_Dehydrogenase_Deficiency.yaml candidate is not an mtDNA complex I subunit disease and should not be treated as coverage.

Concordance and completeness

Judgement: true local gap with broad Leigh overlap only.

The IEMbase signal is a combined complex I deficiency, LHON, Leigh, and mitochondrial myopathy/ragged-red-fiber phenotype. That phenotype package is not represented by a local MT-ND2 target.

Curation actions

  • Add a dedicated MT-ND2 complex I deficiency target if curated.
  • Reject pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency as exact coverage.
  • Preserve decreased complex I activity, increased lactate, low-to-normal neonatal/infantile glucose, exercise intolerance, LHON, Leigh syndrome, and ragged red fibers.