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DMD

Chr Xp21.2-p21.1

dystrophin

Aliases:
BMD, DXS142, DXS164, DXS206, DXS230
MANE:
ENST00000357033.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Acute rhabdomyolysis

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Congenital muscular dystrophy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • DDG2P

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Gastrointestinal neuromuscular disorders

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Intellectual disability

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    0.87
  • Becker muscular dystrophy

    0.82
  • dilated cardiomyopathy 3B

    0.79
  • muscular dystrophy

    0.66
  • familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy

    0.63
  • progressive muscular dystrophy

    0.62
  • neuromuscular disease caused by qualitative or quantitative defects of dystrophin

    0.59
  • Abnormality of the cardiovascular system

    0.55
  • cardiomyopathy

    0.55
  • Elevated circulating creatine kinase concentration

    0.55

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Dystrophin

Anchors the extracellular matrix to the cytoskeleton via F-actin. Ligand for dystroglycan. Component of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex which accumulates at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and at a variety of synapses in the peripheral and central nervous systems and has a structural function in stabilizing the sarcolemma. Also implicated in signaling events and synaptic transmission

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.