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GFAP

Chr 17q21.31

glial fibrillary acidic protein

Aliases:
FLJ45472
MANE:
ENST00000588735.3

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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, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Hereditary ataxia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Alexander disease

    0.87
  • hereditary disease

    0.45
  • Alexander disease type I

    0.38
  • Seizure

    0.38
  • Alexander disease type II

    0.37
  • spastic paraplegia, intellectual disability, nystagmus, and obesity

    0.34
  • metachromatic leukodystrophy

    0.28
  • Progressive ventriculomegaly

    0.27
  • scoliosis

    0.26
  • Abnormality of the skeletal system

    0.25

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Glial fibrillary acidic protein

GFAP, a class-III intermediate filament, is a cell-specific marker that, during the development of the central nervous system, distinguishes astrocytes from other glial cells

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.