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COL18A1

Chr 21q22.3

collagen type XVIII alpha 1 chain

Aliases:
KS, KNO1
MANE:
ENST00000651438.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Retinal disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Structural eye disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Knobloch syndrome 1

    0.79
  • Knobloch syndrome

    0.70
  • hereditary glaucoma, primary closed-angle

    0.59
  • Dupuytren Contracture

    0.59
  • severe early-childhood-onset retinal dystrophy

    0.50
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.48
  • Skin ulcer

    0.46
  • eye disorder

    0.43
  • hereditary disease

    0.42
  • cataract

    0.39

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Collagen alpha-1(XVIII) chain

Probably plays a major role in determining the retinal structure as well as in the closure of the neural tube

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.