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NEFL

Chr 8p21.2

neurofilament light chain

Aliases:
NFL, CMT1F, CMT2E, NF68, PPP1R110
MANE:
ENST00000610854.2

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Hereditary neuropathy

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Congenital myopathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Arthrogryposis

  • Intellectual disability

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E

    0.79
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1F

    0.78
  • Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E

    0.75
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, dominant intermediate G

    0.70
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

    0.64
  • peripheral neuropathy

    0.49
  • hereditary disease

    0.49
  • autosomal dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type G

    0.47
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2

    0.38
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2B5

    0.37

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Neurofilament light polypeptide

Neurofilaments usually contain three intermediate filament proteins: NEFL, NEFM, and NEFH which are involved in the maintenance of neuronal caliber. May additionally cooperate with the neuronal intermediate filament proteins PRPH and INA to form neuronal filamentous networks (By similarity)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list NEFL 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.