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PCDH15

Chr 10q21.1

protocadherin related 15

Aliases:
CDHR15
MANE:
ENST00000644397.2

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Monogenic hearing loss

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Retinal disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Glaucoma (developmental)

  • Primary ciliary disorders

  • Rare multisystem ciliopathy disorders

  • Skeletal dysplasia

  • Structural eye disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Thoracic dystrophies

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Usher syndrome

    0.77
  • Usher syndrome type 1

    0.75
  • Usher syndrome type 1F

    0.74
  • autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss 23

    0.67
  • hearing loss, autosomal recessive

    0.61
  • Rare genetic deafness

    0.53
  • deafness

    0.52
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.52
  • nonsyndromic deafness

    0.44
  • alcohol drinking

    0.43

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Protocadherin-15

Calcium-dependent cell-adhesion protein. Essential for maintenance of normal retinal and cochlear function

Curated MONDO disease pages that list PCDH15 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.