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EPB42

Chr 15q15.2

erythrocyte membrane protein band 4.2

Aliases:
PA, MGC116735, MGC116737
MANE:
ENST00000441366.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Cytopenias and congenital anaemias

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Rare anaemia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hereditary spherocytosis

    0.73
  • hereditary elliptocytosis

    0.48
  • recessive spherocytosis

    0.46
  • placental abruption

    0.34
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • Alzheimer disease

    0.16
  • Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I

    0.06
  • dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis

    0.06
  • hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin-sickle cell disease syndrome

    0.06
  • Hemolytic anemia due to red cell pyruvate kinase deficiency

    0.06

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Protein 4.2

Component of the ankyrin-1 complex, a multiprotein complex involved in the stability and shape of the erythrocyte membrane

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.