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ACTA2

Chr 10q23.31

actin alpha 2, smooth muscle

Aliases:
ACTSA
MANE:
ENST00000224784.10

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Cerebral vascular malformations

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Gastrointestinal neuromuscular disorders

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Paediatric pseudo-obstruction syndrome

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm or dissection

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm or dissection (GMS)

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Ehlers Danlos syndrome with a likely monogenic cause

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • aortic aneurysm, familial thoracic 6

    0.81
  • multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome

    0.79
  • Moyamoya disease 5

    0.76
  • familial thoracic aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection

    0.74
  • Moyamoya disease

    0.64
  • thoracic aortic aneurysm

    0.60
  • Rare disease with thoracic aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection

    0.58
  • Rare genetic vascular disease

    0.54
  • Abnormality of the cardiovascular system

    0.49
  • lymphoid leukemia

    0.47

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Actin, aortic smooth muscle

Actins are highly conserved proteins that are involved in various types of cell motility and are ubiquitously expressed in all eukaryotic cells

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.