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PHOX2B

Chr 4p13

paired like homeobox 2B

Aliases:
NBPhox
MANE:
ENST00000226382.4

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Central congenital hypoventilation

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Childhood solid tumours

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

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Embryonal tumour of possible germline origin

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Familial dysautonomia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial Hirschsprung Disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • central hypoventilation syndrome, congenital, 1, with or without Hirschsprung disease

    0.82
  • Ondine syndrome

    0.80
  • neuroblastoma, susceptibility to, 2

    0.73
  • Haddad syndrome

    0.68
  • central hypoventilation syndrome, congenital

    0.64
  • neuroblastoma

    0.63
  • Hirschsprung disease-ganglioneuroblastoma syndrome

    0.61
  • Inherited cancer-predisposing syndrome

    0.55
  • hereditary neoplastic syndrome

    0.55
  • sudden infant death syndrome

    0.38

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Paired mesoderm homeobox protein 2B

Involved in the development of several major noradrenergic neuron populations, including the locus coeruleus. Transcription factor which could determine a neurotransmitter phenotype in vertebrates. Enhances second-messenger-mediated activation of the dopamine beta-hydrolase and c-fos promoters, and of several enhancers including cAMP-response element and serum-response element

Curated MONDO disease pages that list PHOX2B 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.