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GJB6

Chr 13q12.11

gap junction protein beta 6

Aliases:
EDH, HED, CX30
MANE:
ENST00000647029.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Ectodermal dysplasia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Ectodermal dysplasia without a known gene mutation

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Ichthyosis and erythrokeratoderma

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Monogenic hearing loss

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

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial Meniere Disease

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Clouston syndrome

    0.83
  • autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss 1B

    0.68
  • autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 3B

    0.60
  • hearing loss, autosomal recessive

    0.57
  • autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss 1A

    0.54
  • X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia

    0.54
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.45
  • X-linked mixed deafness with perilymphatic gusher

    0.41
  • X-linked mixed hearing loss with perilymphatic gusher

    0.41
  • autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss

    0.40

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Gap junction beta-6 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.