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CDH3

Chr 16q22.1

cadherin 3

Aliases:
CDHP, PCAD
MANE:
ENST00000264012.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ectodermal dysplasia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ectodermal dysplasia without a known gene mutation

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Retinal disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Skeletal dysplasia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Glaucoma (developmental)

  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • EEM syndrome

    0.78
  • congenital hypotrichosis with juvenile macular dystrophy

    0.74
  • Hypotrichosis with juvenile macular degeneration

    0.72
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.53
  • eye disorder

    0.37
  • hypotrichosis

    0.35
  • Macular dystrophy

    0.34
  • hypotrichosis simplex

    0.33
  • hereditary diffuse gastric adenocarcinoma

    0.33
  • retinitis pigmentosa

    0.32

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Cadherin-3

Cadherins are calcium-dependent cell adhesion proteins. They preferentially interact with themselves in a homophilic manner in connecting cells; cadherins may thus contribute to the sorting of heterogeneous cell types

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.