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GFER

Chr 16p13.3

growth factor, augmenter of liver regeneration

Aliases:
HSS, ERV1, ALR, HERV1, HPO1
MANE:
ENST00000248114.7

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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
  • Congenital myopathy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Mitochondrial disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Possible mitochondrial disorder - nuclear genes

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Undiagnosed metabolic disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • congenital cataract-progressive muscular hypotonia-hearing loss-developmental delay syndrome

    0.75
  • Congenital cataract - progressive muscular hypotonia - hearing loss - developmental delay

    0.73
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.56
  • mitochondrial disease

    0.51
  • hereditary disease

    0.47
  • Intellectual disability

    0.37
  • inborn mitochondrial metabolism disorder

    0.37
  • lysosomal storage disease

    0.25
  • liver disorder

    0.13
  • metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis

    0.08

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

Protein function (UniProt)

FAD-linked sulfhydryl oxidase ALR

FAD-dependent sulfhydryl oxidase that regenerates the redox-active disulfide bonds in CHCHD4/MIA40, a chaperone essential for disulfide bond formation and protein folding in the mitochondrial intermembrane space. The reduced form of CHCHD4/MIA40 forms a transient intermolecular disulfide bridge with GFER/ERV1, resulting in regeneration of the essential disulfide bonds in CHCHD4/MIA40, while GFER/ERV1 becomes re-oxidized by donating electrons to cytochrome c or molecular oxygen

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.