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CRYBB2

Chr 22q11.23

crystallin beta B2

MANE:
ENST00000398215.3

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Structural eye disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Intellectual disability

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Cataract-microcornea syndrome

    0.78
  • Total congenital cataract

    0.61
  • Cataract with Y-shaped suture opacities

    0.61
  • pulverulent cataract

    0.57
  • Developmental cataract

    0.45
  • cataract

    0.42
  • early-onset nuclear cataract

    0.40
  • cataract - microcornea syndrome

    0.39
  • cerulean cataract

    0.37
  • total early-onset cataract

    0.37

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Beta-crystallin B2

Crystallins are the dominant structural components of the vertebrate eye lens

Curated MONDO disease pages that list CRYBB2 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.