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CRYAB

Chr 11q23.1

crystallin alpha B

Aliases:
HSPB5
MANE:
ENST00000650687.2

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Distal myopathies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies and distal myopathies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Paediatric or syndromic cardiomyopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Arthrogryposis

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • fatal infantile hypertonic myofibrillar myopathy

    0.74
  • myofibrillar myopathy 2

    0.74
  • dilated cardiomyopathy 1II

    0.72
  • Alpha-B crystallin-related late-onset distal myopathy

    0.63
  • Posterior polar cataract

    0.62
  • cataract 16 multiple types

    0.62
  • Partial congenital cataract

    0.60
  • familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy

    0.44
  • Developmental cataract

    0.42
  • early-onset non-syndromic cataract

    0.40

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Alpha-crystallin B chain

May contribute to the transparency and refractive index of the lens. Has chaperone-like activity, preventing aggregation of various proteins under a wide range of stress conditions. In lens epithelial cells, stabilizes the ATP6V1A protein, preventing its degradation by the proteasome (By similarity)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list CRYAB 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.