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OCLN

Chr 5q13.2

occludin

Aliases:
PPP1R115
MANE:
ENST00000396442.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intracerebral calcification disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Malformations of cortical development

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Structural basal ganglia disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • White matter disorders and cerebral calcification - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Congenital intrauterine infection-like syndrome

    0.79
  • hypertensive disorder

    0.41
  • Increased blood pressure

    0.35
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.34
  • nodular goiter

    0.33
  • Primary microcephaly

    0.26
  • Global developmental delay

    0.26
  • Cerebral calcification

    0.26
  • nephrolithiasis

    0.21
  • cervical carcinoma

    0.21

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Occludin

May play a role in the formation and regulation of the tight junction (TJ) paracellular permeability barrier. It is able to induce adhesion when expressed in cells lacking tight junctions

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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