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MYL3

Chr 3p21.31

myosin light chain 3

Aliases:
CMH8, VLC1, MLC1V, MLC1SB
MANE:
ENST00000292327.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Paediatric or syndromic cardiomyopathy

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy and conduction defects

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hereditary neuropathy

  • Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    0.83
  • Rare familial disorder with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    0.53
  • Abnormality of the cardiovascular system

    0.50
  • familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    0.50
  • cardiovascular disorder

    0.46
  • cardiomyopathy

    0.43
  • heart failure

    0.39
  • chondrodysplasia Blomstrand type

    0.33
  • metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, Jansen type

    0.32
  • Eiken syndrome

    0.31

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Myosin light chain 3

Regulatory light chain of myosin. Does not bind calcium

Curated MONDO disease pages that list MYL3 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.