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BCL11B

Chr 14q32.2

BCL11 transcription factor B

Aliases:
CTIP-2, CTIP2, hRIT1-alpha, SMARCM2
MANE:
ENST00000357195.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • COVID-19 research

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Intellectual disability

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Rare syndromic craniosynostosis or isolated multisuture synostosis

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Primary immunodeficiency or monogenic inflammatory bowel disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • intellectual developmental disorder with speech delay, dysmorphic facies, and t-cell abnormalities

    0.78
  • immunodeficiency 49

    0.67
  • hereditary disease

    0.52
  • schizophrenia

    0.48
  • bipolar disorder

    0.45
  • mathematical ability

    0.44
  • obesity disorder

    0.43
  • smoking initiation

    0.43
  • Snoring

    0.43
  • autism spectrum disorder

    0.42

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

Protein function (UniProt)

B-cell lymphoma/leukemia 11B

Key regulator of both differentiation and survival of T-lymphocytes during thymocyte development in mammals. Essential in controlling the responsiveness of hematopoietic stem cells to chemotactic signals by modulating the expression of the receptors CCR7 and CCR9, which direct the movement of progenitor cells from the bone marrow to the thymus (PubMed:27959755). Is a regulator of IL2 promoter and enhances IL2 expression in activated CD4(+) T-lymphocytes (PubMed:16809611). Tumor-suppressor that represses transcription through direct, TFCOUP2-independent binding to a GC-rich response element (By similarity). May also function in the P53-signaling pathway (By similarity)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list BCL11B among their top associated genes.

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.