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SEPSECS

Chr 4p15.2

Sep (O-phosphoserine) tRNA:Sec (selenocysteine) tRNA synthase

Aliases:
SLA/LP, SLA, SLA-p35, SecS
MANE:
ENST00000382103.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Cerebellar hypoplasia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia with onset in adulthood

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2D

    0.76
  • progressive cerebello-cerebral atrophy

    0.67
  • pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2

    0.67
  • pontocerebellar hypoplasia

    0.66
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.54
  • hereditary disease

    0.50
  • Non-syndromic pontocerebellar hypoplasia

    0.50
  • spastic ataxia

    0.34
  • Seizure

    0.27
  • Kyphosis

    0.27

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

Protein function (UniProt)

O-phosphoseryl-tRNA(Sec) selenium transferase

Converts O-phosphoseryl-tRNA(Sec) to selenocysteinyl-tRNA(Sec) required for selenoprotein 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.

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