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GAD1

Chr 2q31.1

glutamate decarboxylase 1

MANE:
ENST00000358196.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    Unknown
  • COVID-19 research

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 89

    0.69
  • Inherited congenital spastic tetraplegia

    0.60
  • neurodevelopmental disorder with progressive spasticity and brain white matter abnormalities

    0.54
  • intelligence

    0.41
  • type 2 diabetes mellitus

    0.32
  • mathematical ability

    0.31
  • stroke disorder

    0.29
  • alcohol drinking

    0.29
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • glomerulonephritis

    0.19

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Glutamate decarboxylase 1

Catalyzes the synthesis of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as cofactor

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.