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PAX3

Chr 2q36.1

paired box 3

Aliases:
HUP2, PAX-3
MANE:
ENST00000392070.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Clefting

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Limb disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Monogenic hearing loss

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Pigmentary skin disorders

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Skeletal dysplasia

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Familial rhabdomyosarcoma

    Other - please specifiy in evaluation comments

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Waardenburg syndrome type 1

    0.85
  • Waardenburg syndrome type 3

    0.76
  • craniofacial-deafness-hand syndrome

    0.74
  • Waardenburg syndrome

    0.72
  • alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

    0.62
  • Rare genetic deafness

    0.49
  • hair color

    0.47
  • hereditary disease

    0.47
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.46
  • androgenetic alopecia

    0.46

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Paired box protein Pax-3

Transcription factor that may regulate cell proliferation, migration and apoptosis. Involved in neural development and myogenesis. Transcriptional activator of MITF, acting synergistically with SOX10 (PubMed:21965087)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list PAX3 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.