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KEL

Chr 7q34

Kell metallo-endopeptidase (Kell blood group)

Aliases:
ECE3, CD238
MANE:
ENST00000355265.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Moderate Evidence (Amber)

  • Cerebral vascular malformations

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • vein of Galen aneurysm

    0.48
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.44
  • acute myeloid leukemia

    0.07
  • X-linked sideroblastic anemia with ataxia

    0.05
  • Romano-Ward syndrome

    0.04
  • recessive mitochondrial ataxia syndrome

    0.04
  • 15q11q13 microduplication syndrome

    0.04
  • Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy

    0.04
  • familial pseudohyperkalemia

    0.03
  • Ataxia - oculomotor apraxia type 1

    0.03

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Kell blood group glycoprotein

Zinc endopeptidase with endothelin-3-converting enzyme activity. Cleaves EDN1, EDN2 and EDN3, with a marked preference for EDN3

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.