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BFSP2

Chr 3q22.1

beaded filament structural protein 2

Aliases:
CP47, CP49, LIFL-L, phakinin
MANE:
ENST00000302334.3

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

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

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

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Structural eye disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • cataract 12 multiple types

    0.72
  • cataract

    0.62
  • Partial congenital cataract

    0.49
  • early-onset non-syndromic cataract

    0.40
  • Cataract with Y-shaped suture opacities

    0.40
  • pulverulent cataract

    0.39
  • early-onset sutural cataract

    0.37
  • lens disorder

    0.35
  • Nystagmus

    0.34
  • Strabismus

    0.34

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Phakinin

Required for the correct formation of lens intermediate filaments as part of a complex composed of BFSP1, BFSP2 and CRYAA (PubMed:28935373). Plays a role in maintenance of retinal lens optical clarity (By similarity)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list BFSP2 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.