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GRN

Chr 17q21.31

granulin precursor

Aliases:
PCDGF, PGRN, CLN11
MANE:
ENST00000053867.8

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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 neurodegenerative disorder

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset dementia (encompassing fronto-temporal dementia and prion disease)

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

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia with onset in adulthood

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 11

    0.79
  • GRN-related frontotemporal lobar degeneration with Tdp43 inclusions

    0.78
  • CLN11 disease

    0.71
  • frontotemporal dementia

    0.65
  • adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

    0.59
  • Alzheimer disease

    0.55
  • dementia

    0.52
  • hereditary disease

    0.49
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    0.47
  • neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

    0.47

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Progranulin

Secreted protein that acts as a key regulator of lysosomal function and as a growth factor involved in inflammation, wound healing and cell proliferation (PubMed:12526812, PubMed:18378771, PubMed:28073925, PubMed:28453791, PubMed:28541286). Regulates protein trafficking to lysosomes, and also the activity of lysosomal enzymes (PubMed:28453791, PubMed:28541286). Also facilitates the acidification of lysosomes, causing degradation of mature CTSD by CTSB (PubMed:28073925). In addition, functions as a wound-related growth factor that acts directly on dermal fibroblasts and endothelial cells to promote division, migration and the formation of capillary-like tubule structures (By similarity). Also promotes epithelial cell proliferation by blocking TNF-mediated neutrophil activation preventing release of oxidants and proteases (PubMed:12526812). Moreover, modulates inflammation in neurons by preserving neurons survival, axonal outgrowth and neuronal integrity (PubMed:18378771)

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.

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