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ACTN2

Chr 1q43

actinin alpha 2

MANE:
ENST00000366578.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Congenital myopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies and distal myopathies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Paediatric or syndromic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hereditary neuropathy

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • dilated cardiomyopathy 1AA

    0.79
  • myopathy, congenital, with structured cores and z-line abnormalities

    0.56
  • Rare familial disorder with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    0.51
  • autosomal dominant dilated cardiomyopathy

    0.50
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.50
  • cardiomyopathy, familial hypertrophic, 23, with or without ventricular noncompaction

    0.49
  • intrinsic cardiomyopathy

    0.47
  • myopathy, distal, 6, adult-onset, autosomal dominant

    0.47
  • familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    0.45
  • ACTN2-related cardiac and skeletal myopathy

    0.45

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Alpha-actinin-2

F-actin cross-linking protein which is thought to anchor actin to a variety of intracellular structures. This is a bundling protein

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.