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SFTPC

Chr 8p21.3

surfactant protein C

Aliases:
SP-C, PSP-C, SMDP2, BRICD6
MANE:
ENST00000679463.1

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Childhood interstitial lung disease

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Familial pulmonary fibrosis

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Pulmonary fibrosis familial

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Congenital pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

    0.71
  • surfactant metabolism dysfunction, pulmonary, 2

    0.69
  • chronic respiratory distress with surfactant metabolism deficiency

    0.63
  • hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

    0.54
  • interstitial lung disease

    0.47
  • idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    0.39
  • newborn respiratory distress syndrome

    0.39
  • pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

    0.37
  • hereditary disease

    0.27
  • pulmonary fibrosis

    0.18

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Surfactant protein C

Pulmonary surfactant associated proteins promote alveolar stability by lowering the surface tension at the air-liquid interface in the peripheral air spaces

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.