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HBD

Chr 11p15.4

hemoglobin subunit delta

Aliases:
HBK
MANE:
ENST00000650601.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Rare anaemia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Cytopenias and congenital anaemias

    Unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • delta-beta-thalassemia

    0.68
  • Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin - beta-thalassemia

    0.39
  • anemia

    0.35
  • beta-thalassemia HBB/LCRB

    0.34
  • Alpha-thalassemia

    0.34
  • Reduced beta/alpha synthesis ratio

    0.34
  • Abnormal hemoglobin

    0.34
  • alpha thalassemia spectrum

    0.34
  • Persistence of hemoglobin F

    0.34
  • glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism

    0.27

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Hemoglobin subunit delta

Involved in oxygen transport from the lung to the various peripheral tissues

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.