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LAMA2

Chr 6q22.33

laminin subunit alpha 2

MANE:
ENST00000421865.3

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Arthrogryposis

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Congenital muscular dystrophy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies and distal myopathies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Malformations of cortical development

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Monogenic hearing loss

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A

    0.82
  • congenital merosin-deficient muscular dystrophy 1A

    0.82
  • muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle, autosomal recessive 23

    0.78
  • LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy

    0.71
  • congenital muscular dystrophy

    0.65
  • congenital muscular dystrophy due to LMNA mutation

    0.61
  • laminin alpha 2-related dystrophy

    0.58
  • hereditary disease

    0.54
  • Abnormality of the musculature

    0.52
  • eye disorder

    0.50

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Laminin subunit alpha-2

Binding to cells via a high affinity receptor, laminin is thought to mediate the attachment, migration and organization of cells into tissues during embryonic development by interacting with other extracellular matrix components

Curated MONDO disease pages that list LAMA2 among their top associated genes.

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.