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ALDH3A2

Chr 17p11.2

aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 family member A2

Aliases:
FALDH
MANE:
ENST00000176643.11

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ichthyosis and erythrokeratoderma

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Inherited white matter disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Sjögren-Larsson syndrome

    0.85
  • Sjogren-Larsson syndrome

    0.82
  • hereditary disease

    0.42
  • cerebral palsy

    0.34
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.19
  • sialadenitis

    0.15
  • adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

    0.12
  • neoplasm

    0.10
  • gastric cancer

    0.09
  • nonpapillary renal cell carcinoma

    0.08

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Aldehyde dehydrogenase family 3 member A2

Catalyzes the oxidation of medium and long chain aliphatic aldehydes to fatty acids. Active on a variety of saturated and unsaturated aliphatic aldehydes between 6 and 24 carbons in length (PubMed:18035827, PubMed:18182499, PubMed:22633490, PubMed:25047030, PubMed:9133646, PubMed:9662422). Responsible for conversion of the sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) degradation product hexadecenal to hexadecenoic acid (PubMed:22633490)

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.