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CST3

Chr 20p11.21

cystatin C

MANE:
ENST00000376925.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hereditary systemic amyloidosis

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial cerebral small vessel disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Periodic fever syndromes

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • ACys amyloidosis

    0.65
  • Hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis

    0.62
  • Hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, Icelandic type

    0.59
  • AL amyloidosis

    0.48
  • age-related macular degeneration

    0.47
  • age related macular degeneration 11

    0.46
  • leukodystrophy, adult-onset, autosomal dominant, without amyloid angiopathy

    0.46
  • cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    0.44
  • aging

    0.43
  • leukodystrophy

    0.42

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Cystatin-C

As an inhibitor of cysteine proteinases, this protein is thought to serve an important physiological role as a local regulator of this enzyme activity

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.