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GATA4

Chr 8p23.1

GATA binding protein 4

MANE:
ENST00000532059.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Diabetes with additional phenotypes suggestive of a monogenic aetiology

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Differences in sex development

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial diabetes

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial non syndromic congenital heart disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Monogenic diabetes

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Neonatal diabetes

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • atrial septal defect 2

    0.79
  • ventricular septal defect 1

    0.76
  • atrioventricular septal defect 4

    0.74
  • Tetralogy of Fallot

    0.73
  • congenital heart disease

    0.53
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.52
  • 46,XY partial gonadal dysgenesis

    0.51
  • testicular anomalies with or without congenital heart disease

    0.50
  • pancreatic hypoplasia-diabetes-congenital heart disease syndrome

    0.48
  • Pancreatic hypoplasia - diabetes - congenital heart disease

    0.48

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Transcription factor GATA-4

Transcriptional activator that binds to the consensus sequence 5'-AGATAG-3' and plays a key role in cardiac development and function (PubMed:24000169, PubMed:27984724, PubMed:35182466). In cooperation with TBX5, it binds to cardiac super-enhancers and promotes cardiomyocyte gene expression, while it down-regulates endocardial and endothelial gene expression (PubMed:27984724). Involved in bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-mediated induction of cardiac-specific gene expression. Binds to BMP response element (BMPRE) DNA sequences within cardiac activating regions (By similarity). Acts as a transcriptional activator of ANF in cooperation with NKX2-5 (By similarity). Promotes cardiac myocyte enlargement (PubMed:20081228). Required during testicular development (PubMed:21220346). May play a role in sphingolipid signaling by regulating the expression of sphingosine-1-phosphate degrading enzyme, sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase (PubMed:15734735)

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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