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GJB3

Chr 1p34.3

gap junction protein beta 3

Aliases:
CX31
MANE:
ENST00000373366.3

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ichthyosis and erythrokeratoderma

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Palmoplantar keratoderma and erythrokeratodermas

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Pigmentary skin disorders

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Rare genetic inflammatory skin disorders

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Monogenic hearing loss

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Familial Meniere Disease

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • erythrokeratodermia variabilis

    0.81
  • autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss

    0.65
  • hearing loss, autosomal recessive

    0.55
  • autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss 1A

    0.54
  • deafness

    0.54
  • erythrokeratoderma

    0.37
  • peripheral neuropathy

    0.37
  • neuropathy with hearing impairment

    0.37
  • nonsyndromic deafness

    0.27
  • hearing loss disorder

    0.19

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Gap junction beta-3 protein

One gap junction consists of a cluster of closely packed pairs of transmembrane channels, the connexons, through which materials of low MW diffuse from one cell to a neighboring cell

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.