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GEMIN4

Chr 17p13.3

gem nuclear organelle associated protein 4

Aliases:
HHRF-1, DKFZP434B131, p97, DKFZP434D174, HC56
MANE:
ENST00000319004.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • neurodevelopmental disorder with microcephaly, cataracts, and renal abnormalities

    0.74
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.53
  • microcephaly

    0.26
  • Global developmental delay

    0.26
  • Developmental cataract

    0.26
  • Hyperlipoproteinemia type 1

    0.06
  • myeloid sarcoma

    0.06
  • cancer

    0.05
  • hyperlipoproteinemia type V

    0.05
  • Hyperlipoproteinemia type 5

    0.05

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Gem-associated protein 4

The SMN complex catalyzes the assembly of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), the building blocks of the spliceosome, and thereby plays an important role in the splicing of cellular pre-mRNAs. Most spliceosomal snRNPs contain a common set of Sm proteins SNRPB, SNRPD1, SNRPD2, SNRPD3, SNRPE, SNRPF and SNRPG that assemble in a heptameric protein ring on the Sm site of the small nuclear RNA to form the core snRNP (Sm core). In the cytosol, the Sm proteins SNRPD1, SNRPD2, SNRPE, SNRPF and SNRPG are trapped in an inactive 6S pICln-Sm complex by the chaperone CLNS1A that controls the assembly of the core snRNP. To assemble core snRNPs, the SMN complex accepts the trapped 5Sm proteins from CLNS1A forming an intermediate. Binding of snRNA inside 5Sm triggers eviction of the SMN complex, thereby allowing binding of SNRPD3 and SNRPB to complete assembly of the core snRNP

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.