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FAS

Chr 10q23.31

Fas cell surface death receptor

Aliases:
CD95, APO-1
MANE:
ENST00000652046.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome with defective apoptosis

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • COVID-19 research

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Cytopenia - NOT Fanconi anaemia

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Haematological malignancies cancer susceptibility

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Haematological malignancies for rare disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Primary immunodeficiency or monogenic inflammatory bowel disease

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Monogenic hearing loss

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome type 1

    0.74
  • autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome

    0.71
  • lymphoid neoplasm

    0.54
  • lymphoma

    0.51
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.49
  • B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

    0.45
  • diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

    0.44
  • hypothyroidism

    0.44
  • hereditary disease

    0.41
  • Hashimoto thyroiditis

    0.38

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 6

Receptor for TNFSF6/FASLG. The adapter molecule FADD recruits caspase CASP8 to the activated receptor. The resulting death-inducing signaling complex (DISC) performs CASP8 proteolytic activation which initiates the subsequent cascade of caspases (aspartate-specific cysteine proteases) mediating apoptosis. FAS-mediated apoptosis may have a role in the induction of peripheral tolerance, in the antigen-stimulated suicide of mature T-cells, or both. The secreted isoforms 2 to 6 block apoptosis (in vitro)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list FAS 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.

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