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PMP2

Chr 8q21.13

peripheral myelin protein 2

Aliases:
MP2, FABP8, M-FABP
MANE:
ENST00000256103.3

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Hereditary neuropathy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Hereditary neuropathy or pain disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1G

    0.72
  • peripheral neuropathy

    0.34
  • hereditary disease

    0.33
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

    0.19
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1E

    0.12
  • Hashimoto thyroiditis

    0.08
  • benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy

    0.07
  • developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep

    0.06
  • schizophrenia

    0.06
  • hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies

    0.06

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Myelin P2 protein

May play a role in lipid transport protein in Schwann cells. May bind cholesterol

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.