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KIF5A

Chr 12q13.3

kinesin family member 5A

Aliases:
D12S1889, NKHC, MY050
MANE:
ENST00000455537.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Hereditary neuropathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hereditary spastic paraplegia 10

    0.80
  • Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 10

    0.77
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    0.71
  • myoclonus, intractable, neonatal

    0.67
  • hereditary spastic paraplegia

    0.58
  • Spastic paraplegia

    0.56
  • inherited neurodegenerative disorder

    0.40
  • Intellectual disability

    0.40
  • autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 due to KIF5A mutation

    0.37
  • demyelinating polyneuropathy

    0.37

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Kinesin heavy chain isoform 5A

Microtubule-dependent motor required for slow axonal transport of neurofilament proteins (NFH, NFM and NFL). Can induce formation of neurite-like membrane protrusions in non-neuronal cells in a ZFYVE27-dependent manner. The ZFYVE27-KIF5A complex contributes to the vesicular transport of VAPA, VAPB, SURF4, RAB11A, RAB11B and RTN3 proteins in neurons. Required for anterograde axonal transportation of MAPK8IP3/JIP3 which is essential for MAPK8IP3/JIP3 function in axon elongation

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.