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HBG1

Chr 11p15.4

hemoglobin subunit gamma 1

Aliases:
HBG-T2
MANE:
ENST00000330597.5

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Rare anaemia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Sickle cell, thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Sickle cell, thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies trait or carrier testing

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

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin - beta-thalassemia

    0.67
  • hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin-sickle cell disease syndrome

    0.60
  • hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin-beta-thalassemia syndrome

    0.40
  • delta-beta-thalassemia

    0.37
  • hemoglobin E disease

    0.11
  • atrial fibrillation

    0.07
  • autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia

    0.04
  • cancer

    0.04
  • familial hemolytic anemia

    0.03
  • inherited hemoglobinopathy

    0.03

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Hemoglobin subunit gamma-1

Gamma chains make up the fetal hemoglobin F, in combination with alpha chains

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.