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SEMA6B

Chr 19p13.3

semaphorin 6B

Aliases:
semaZ, SEMA-VIB, SEM-SEMA-Z
MANE:
ENST00000586582.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Intellectual disability

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • epilepsy, progressive myoclonic, 11

    0.69
  • Intellectual disability

    0.45
  • progressive myoclonus epilepsy

    0.37
  • autosomal dominant non-syndromic intellectual disability

    0.37
  • epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures

    0.27
  • Shock

    0.24
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • neurodevelopmental disorder

    0.19
  • Retinal dystrophy

    0.18
  • optic atrophy

    0.15

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Semaphorin-6B

Functions as a cell surface repellent for mossy fibers of developing neurons in the hippocampus where it plays a role in axon guidance. May function through the PLXNA4 receptor expressed by mossy cell axons

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.