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RPGR

Chr Xp11.4

retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator

Aliases:
CORDX1
MANE:
ENST00000645032.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Primary ciliary disorders

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Respiratory ciliopathies including non-CF bronchiectasis

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

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Glaucoma (developmental)

  • Intellectual disability

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Monogenic hearing loss

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Ophthalmological ciliopathies

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)
  • Rare multisystem ciliopathy disorders

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, monoallelic mutations in females may cause disease (may be less severe, later onset than males)

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • retinitis pigmentosa

    0.84
  • Cone rod dystrophy

    0.75
  • Primary ciliary dyskinesia - retinitis pigmentosa

    0.75
  • retinitis pigmentosa 3

    0.71
  • RPGR-related retinopathy

    0.68
  • primary ciliary dyskinesia

    0.67
  • X-linked cone-rod dystrophy 1

    0.66
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.63
  • cone-rod dystrophy

    0.51
  • X-linked cone-rod dystrophy

    0.51

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

Protein function (UniProt)

X-linked retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator

Acts as a guanine-nucleotide releasing factor (GEF) for RAB8A and RAB37 by promoting the conversion of inactive RAB-GDP to the active form RAB-GTP (PubMed:20631154). GEF activity towards RAB8A may facilitate ciliary trafficking by modulating ciliary intracellular localization of RAB8A (PubMed:20631154). GEF activity towards RAB37 maintains autophagic homeostasis and retinal function (By similarity). Involved in photoreceptor integrity (By similarity). May control cilia formation by regulating actin stress filaments and cell contractility. May be involved in microtubule organization and regulation of transport in primary cilia (PubMed:21933838). May play a critical role in spermatogenesis and in intraflagellar transport processes (By similarity)

Curated MONDO disease pages that list RPGR 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.

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