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NF2

Chr 22q12.2

NF2, moesin-ezrin-radixin like (MERLIN) tumor suppressor

Aliases:
merlin, ACN, SCH, BANF, merlin-1
MANE:
ENST00000338641.10

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult solid tumours cancer susceptibility

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult solid tumours for rare disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Childhood solid tumours

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Childhood solid tumours cancer susceptibility

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Familial tumours of the nervous system

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Familial Tumours Syndromes of the central & peripheral Nervous system

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Mosaic skin disorders - deep sequencing

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • NF2-related schwannomatosis

    0.85
  • schwannomatosis

    0.68
  • SMARCB1-related schwannomatosis

    0.65
  • familial meningioma

    0.63
  • acoustic neuroma

    0.62
  • pleural mesothelioma

    0.61
  • hereditary neoplastic syndrome

    0.57
  • Inherited cancer-predisposing syndrome

    0.57
  • neurofibromatosis

    0.54
  • meningioma

    0.50

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Merlin

Probable regulator of the Hippo/SWH (Sav/Wts/Hpo) signaling pathway, a signaling pathway that plays a pivotal role in tumor suppression by restricting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. Along with WWC1 can synergistically induce the phosphorylation of LATS1 and LATS2 and can probably function in the regulation of the Hippo/SWH (Sav/Wts/Hpo) signaling pathway. May act as a membrane stabilizing protein. May inhibit PI3 kinase by binding to AGAP2 and impairing its stimulating activity. Suppresses cell proliferation and tumorigenesis by inhibiting the CUL4A-RBX1-DDB1-VprBP/DCAF1 E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complex

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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