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NRCAM

Chr 7q31.1

neuronal cell adhesion molecule

Aliases:
KIAA0343, Bravo
MANE:
ENST00000379028.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Skeletal dysplasia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • neurodevelopmental disorder with neuromuscular and skeletal abnormalities

    0.77
  • complex neurodevelopmental disorder

    0.37
  • stroke disorder

    0.29
  • alcohol drinking

    0.28
  • ovarian neoplasm

    0.28
  • Raynaud disease

    0.26
  • liver disorder

    0.26
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • ocular hypotension

    0.18
  • myopia

    0.12

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Neuronal cell adhesion molecule

Cell adhesion protein that is required for normal responses to cell-cell contacts in brain and in the peripheral nervous system. Plays a role in neurite outgrowth in response to contactin binding. Plays a role in mediating cell-cell contacts between Schwann cells and axons. Plays a role in the formation and maintenance of the nodes of Ranvier on myelinated axons. Nodes of Ranvier contain clustered sodium channels that are crucial for the saltatory propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons. During development, nodes of Ranvier are formed by the fusion of two heminodes. Required for normal clustering of sodium channels at heminodes; not required for the formation of mature nodes with normal sodium channel clusters. Required, together with GLDN, for maintaining NFASC and sodium channel clusters at mature nodes of Ranvier

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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