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COL4A2

Chr 13q34

collagen type IV alpha 2 chain

Aliases:
FLJ22259, DKFZp686I14213
MANE:
ENST00000360467.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Familial cerebral small vessel disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Fetal anomalies

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

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Malformations of cortical development

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • porencephaly 2

    0.73
  • familial porencephaly

    0.65
  • intracerebral hemorrhage

    0.62
  • porencephaly

    0.61
  • Dupuytren Contracture

    0.59
  • brain small vessel disease 1 with or without ocular anomalies

    0.54
  • coronary artery disorder

    0.52
  • coronary atherosclerosis

    0.49
  • myocardial infarction

    0.49
  • stroke disorder

    0.47

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Collagen alpha-2(IV) chain

Type IV collagen is the major structural component of glomerular basement membranes (GBM), forming a 'chicken-wire' meshwork together with laminins, proteoglycans and entactin/nidogen

Curated MONDO disease pages that list COL4A2 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.