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TUBB4A

Chr 19p13.3

tubulin beta 4A class IVa

Aliases:
beta-5
MANE:
ENST00000264071.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Adult onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Adult onset leukodystrophy

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Early onset dystonia

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 6

    0.77
  • Hypomyelination with atrophy of basal ganglia and cerebellum

    0.76
  • Primary dystonia, DYT4 type

    0.74
  • torsion dystonia 4

    0.72
  • prostate cancer

    0.61
  • neoplasm

    0.61
  • breast cancer

    0.60
  • non-small cell lung carcinoma

    0.60
  • breast carcinoma

    0.60
  • breast neoplasm

    0.59

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Tubulin beta-4A chain

Tubulin is the major constituent of microtubules, a cylinder consisting of laterally associated linear protofilaments composed of alpha- and beta-tubulin heterodimers. Microtubules grow by the addition of GTP-tubulin dimers to the microtubule end, where a stabilizing cap forms. Below the cap, tubulin dimers are in GDP-bound state, owing to GTPase activity of alpha-tubulin

Curated MONDO disease pages that list TUBB4A 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.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.