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MVK

Chr 12q24.11

mevalonate kinase

Aliases:
LRBP, MK
MANE:
ENST00000228510.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Autoinflammatory disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Cholestasis

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • COVID-19 research

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Familial disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Gastrointestinal epithelial barrier disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Infantile enterocolitis & monogenic inflammatory bowel disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hyperimmunoglobulinemia D with periodic fever

    0.85
  • mevalonic aciduria

    0.84
  • porokeratosis 3, disseminated superficial actinic type

    0.75
  • mevalonate kinase deficiency

    0.59
  • methylmalonic aciduria, cblB type

    0.55
  • Vitamin B12-responsive methylmalonic acidemia type cblB

    0.55
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.53
  • autoinflammatory syndrome

    0.52
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.51
  • hereditary disease

    0.47

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Mevalonate kinase

Catalyzes the phosphorylation of mevalonate to mevalonate 5-phosphate, a key step in isoprenoid and cholesterol biosynthesis (PubMed:11278915, PubMed:18302342, PubMed:9325256, PubMed:9392419)

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.

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