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FAR1

Chr 11p15.3

fatty acyl-CoA reductase 1

Aliases:
FLJ22728, SDR10E1
MANE:
ENST00000354817.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic (but BIALLELIC mutations cause a more SEVERE disease form), autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Peroxisomal disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Undiagnosed metabolic disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • fatty acyl-CoA reductase 1 deficiency

    0.79
  • vitamin deficiency disorder

    0.28
  • vitamin D deficiency

    0.28
  • parasitic infectious disease

    0.27
  • Hodgkins lymphoma

    0.27
  • myocardial infarction

    0.21
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • rheumatic disorder

    0.14
  • myasthenia gravis

    0.12
  • alcohol drinking

    0.11

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Fatty acyl-CoA reductase 1

Catalyzes the reduction of saturated and unsaturated C16 or C18 fatty acyl-CoA to fatty alcohols (PubMed:15220348, PubMed:24108123, PubMed:35238077). It plays an essential role in the production of ether lipids/plasmalogens which synthesis requires fatty alcohols (PubMed:20071337, PubMed:24108123, PubMed:33239752). In parallel, it is also required for wax monoesters production since fatty alcohols also constitute a substrate for their synthesis (By similarity) (PubMed:24108123, PubMed:35238077)

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.

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