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PLP1

Chr Xq22.2

proteolipid protein 1

Aliases:
GPM6C
MANE:
ENST00000621218.5

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

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

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Inherited white matter disorders

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

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

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Pelizeaus-Merzbacher spectrum disorder

    0.85
  • hereditary spastic paraplegia 2

    0.82
  • Spastic paraplegia type 2

    0.78
  • Sudanophilic leukodystrophy

    0.57
  • Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, connatal form

    0.52
  • hereditary disease

    0.50
  • hereditary spastic paraplegia

    0.40
  • null syndrome

    0.39
  • Spastic paraplegia

    0.39
  • Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, classic form

    0.39

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Myelin proteolipid protein

This is the major myelin protein from the central nervous system. It plays an important role in the formation or maintenance of the multilamellar structure of myelin

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.