Skip to content
GenoLensGenoLens

CARS2

Chr 13q34

cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial

Aliases:
FLJ12118
MANE:
ENST00000257347.9

Annotations refreshed 10 hours ago.

Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Mitochondrial disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Possible mitochondrial disorder - nuclear genes

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 27

    0.75
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.55
  • hereditary disease

    0.47
  • atrial fibrillation

    0.33
  • coronary artery disorder

    0.31
  • temporomandibular joint disorder

    0.28
  • Parkinson disease

    0.24
  • nephritis

    0.24
  • ovarian neoplasm

    0.24
  • bone remodeling disease

    0.23

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Probable cysteine--tRNA ligase, mitochondrial

Mitochondrial cysteine-specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that catalyzes the ATP-dependent ligation of cysteine to tRNA(Cys)

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.