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LARS2

Chr 3p21.31

leucyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial

Aliases:
KIAA0028, LEURS, MGC26121, mtLeuRS
MANE:
ENST00000645846.2

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal hydrops

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Mitochondrial disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Monogenic hearing loss

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Perrault syndrome 4

    0.80
  • hydrops-lactic acidosis-sideroblastic anemia-multisystemic failure syndrome

    0.77
  • Perrault syndrome

    0.74
  • Mitochondrial myopathy and sideroblastic anemia

    0.70
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.55
  • nonsyndromic genetic hearing loss

    0.43
  • leukodystrophy

    0.42
  • hereditary disease

    0.41
  • Rare genetic deafness

    0.41
  • Perrault syndrome 2

    0.37

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Leucine--tRNA ligase, mitochondrial

Catalyzes the attachment of leucine to its cognate tRNA

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.