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FTL

Chr 19q13.33

ferritin light chain

Aliases:
MGC71996, NBIA3, FTL1
MANE:
ENST00000331825.11

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Early onset dystonia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Iron metabolism disorders - NOT common HFE mutations

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hereditary hyperferritinemia with congenital cataracts

    0.79
  • neuroferritinopathy

    0.78
  • L-ferritin deficiency

    0.53
  • hereditary disease

    0.41
  • movement disorder

    0.37
  • Genetic hyperferritinemia without iron overload

    0.37
  • essential tremor

    0.11
  • hepatocellular carcinoma

    0.10
  • cancer

    0.10
  • neoplasm

    0.10

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Ferritin light chain

Stores iron in a soluble, non-toxic, readily available form. Important for iron homeostasis. Iron is taken up in the ferrous form and deposited as ferric hydroxides after oxidation. Also plays a role in delivery of iron to cells. Mediates iron uptake in capsule cells of the developing kidney (By similarity). Delivery to lysosomes by the cargo receptor NCOA4 for autophagic degradation and release or iron (PubMed:24695223)

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.