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EPCAM

Chr 2p21

epithelial cell adhesion molecule

Aliases:
Ly74, TROP1, GA733-2, EGP34, EGP40
MANE:
ENST00000263735.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult solid tumours cancer susceptibility

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult solid tumours for rare disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Gastrointestinal epithelial barrier disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • GI tract tumours

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Infantile enterocolitis & monogenic inflammatory bowel disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Inherited MMR deficiency (Lynch syndrome)

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Inherited polyposis and early onset colorectal cancer - germline testing

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • congenital diarrhea 5 with tufting enteropathy

    0.76
  • Lynch syndrome 8

    0.74
  • Intestinal epithelial dysplasia

    0.71
  • gastric cancer

    0.60
  • neoplasm

    0.53
  • Ascites

    0.51
  • Lynch syndrome

    0.51
  • colon carcinoma

    0.42
  • colorectal cancer

    0.42
  • Inherited cancer-predisposing syndrome

    0.42

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule

May act as a physical homophilic interaction molecule between intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) at the mucosal epithelium for providing immunological barrier as a first line of defense against mucosal infection. Plays a role in embryonic stem cells proliferation and differentiation. Up-regulates the expression of FABP5, MYC and cyclins A and E

Curated MONDO disease pages that list EPCAM 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.