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VPS37A

Chr 8p22

VPS37A subunit of ESCRT-I

Aliases:
FLJ32642, HCRP1, SPG53
MANE:
ENST00000324849.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Moderate Evidence (Amber)

  • Adult onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Adult onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

  • Adult onset neurodegenerative disorder

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset dystonia

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 53

    0.58
  • HIV infectious disease

    0.53
  • hereditary spastic paraplegia 53

    0.47
  • viral infectious disease

    0.46
  • Paralysis

    0.26
  • endocarditis

    0.25
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.22
  • hereditary spastic paraplegia

    0.19
  • colorectal carcinoma

    0.09
  • posterior cortical atrophy

    0.09

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 37A

Component of the ESCRT-I complex, a regulator of vesicular trafficking process. Required for the sorting of endocytic ubiquitinated cargos into multivesicular bodies. May be involved in cell growth and differentiation

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.