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STX16

Chr 20q13.32

syntaxin 16

Aliases:
hsyn16, SYN16, SYN-16
MANE:
ENST00000371141.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Severe early-onset obesity

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Albright hereditary osteodystrophy, pseudohypoparathyroidism, pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, acrodysostosis and osteoma cutis

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Familial hypoparathyroidism

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1B

    0.67
  • Obesity

    0.37
  • obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency

    0.37
  • obesity disorder

    0.37
  • female reproductive system disorder

    0.35
  • menopausal or post-menopausal disease

    0.34
  • portal hypertension

    0.24
  • chronic laryngitis

    0.24
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • intracranial hemorrhage

    0.18

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Syntaxin-16

SNARE involved in vesicular transport from the late endosomes to the trans-Golgi network

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.