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MSH5

Chr 6p21.33

mutS homolog 5

Aliases:
G7
MANE:
ENST00000375750.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Moderate Evidence (Amber)

  • Primary ovarian insufficiency

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Familial prostate cancer

    Unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • primary ovarian failure

    0.60
  • spermatogenic failure 74

    0.60
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.47
  • premature ovarian failure 13

    0.40
  • genetic non-acquired premature ovarian failure

    0.40
  • male infertility with azoospermia or oligozoospermia due to single gene mutation

    0.39
  • Azoospermia

    0.34
  • spermatogenic failure

    0.07
  • Female infertility due to fertilization defect

    0.07
  • non-syndromic male infertility due to sperm motility disorder

    0.07

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

Protein function (UniProt)

MutS protein homolog 5

Involved in DNA mismatch repair and meiotic recombination processes. Facilitates crossovers between homologs during meiosis (By similarity)

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.