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HBG2

Chr 11p15.4

hemoglobin subunit gamma 2

Aliases:
HBG-T1
MANE:
ENST00000336906.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Rare anaemia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Sickle cell, thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Sickle cell, thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies trait or carrier testing

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Cytopenias and congenital anaemias

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • cyanosis, transient neonatal

    0.77
  • Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin - beta-thalassemia

    0.67
  • hemoglobinopathy Toms River

    0.63
  • hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin-sickle cell disease syndrome

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

    0.37
  • beta thalassemia

    0.34
  • malaria

    0.08
  • Sepsis

    0.06
  • hemoglobin E disease

    0.06
  • anemia

    0.06

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Hemoglobin subunit gamma-2

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.