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PIGA

Chr Xp22.2

phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class A

Aliases:
GPI3, PIG-A
MANE:
ENST00000333590.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Congenital disorders of glycosylation

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • DDG2P

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Fetal anomalies

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Intellectual disability

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Thrombophilia with a likely monogenic cause

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Undiagnosed metabolic disorders

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome 2

    0.80
  • paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria 1

    0.75
  • Multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome type 2

    0.65
  • ferro-cerebro-cutaneous syndrome

    0.60
  • paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

    0.53
  • infantile spasms

    0.37
  • epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

    0.37
  • multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome

    0.37
  • malignant migrating partial seizures of infancy

    0.37
  • Multiple congenital anomalies - hypotonia - seizures syndrome

    0.37

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Phosphatidylinositol N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase subunit A

Catalytic subunit of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GPI-GnT) complex that catalyzes the transfer of N-acetylglucosamine from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine to phosphatidylinositol and participates in the first step of GPI biosynthesis

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.