Skip to content
GenoLensGenoLens

LCA5

Chr 6q14.1

lebercilin LCA5

MANE:
ENST00000369846.9

Annotations refreshed 1 month ago.

Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Retinal disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Glaucoma (developmental)

  • Non-syndromic familial congenital anorectal malformations

  • Ophthalmological ciliopathies

  • Primary ciliary disorders

  • Rare multisystem ciliopathy disorders

  • Skeletal dysplasia

  • Structural eye disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

+1 more panels — install the extension to see the full list inline on any page.

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Leber congenital amaurosis

    0.74
  • Leber congenital amaurosis 5

    0.71
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.54
  • retinitis pigmentosa

    0.51
  • hereditary disease

    0.47
  • LCA5-related retinopathy

    0.40
  • Stargardt disease

    0.39
  • severe early-childhood-onset retinal dystrophy

    0.38
  • eye disorder

    0.37
  • response to xenobiotic stimulus

    0.35

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Lebercilin

Involved in intraflagellar protein (IFT) transport in photoreceptor cilia. Plays a role in the ciliary transport of photoreceptors outer segment proteins

Curated MONDO disease pages that list LCA5 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.