ABHD2

abhydrolase domain containing 2, acylglycerol lipase

Summary

This gene encodes a protein containing an alpha/beta hydrolase fold, which is a catalytic domain found in a wide range of enzymes. The encoded protein is an acylglycerol lipase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of endocannabinoid arachidonoylglycerol from the cell membrane. This leads to activation of the sperm calcium channel CatSper, which results in sperm activation. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants encoding the same protein. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2017]

Known Variants22 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs118656749215:89,659,580C/T—uncertain significance
rs37722443815:89,659,595G/A—uncertain significance
rs14198278115:89,659,737C/G—uncertain significance
rs717779215:89,661,039C/Tregulatory region variant—
rs7346777115:89,672,021G/T——
rs20021894615:89,719,111G/A—uncertain significance
rs120943075715:89,719,169C/G—uncertain significance
rs75103923715:89,719,195G/A—uncertain significance
rs493248015:89,723,858T/A——
rs146838068115:89,731,486G/A—uncertain significance
rs20134928215:89,731,543G/T—benign
rs11140178915:89,734,320C/T—benign
rs56559500115:89,734,363A/G—uncertain significance
rs75113377115:89,734,367G/A—uncertain significance
rs128993888715:89,736,470A/G—uncertain significance
rs55179024515:89,736,521G/A—uncertain significance
rs20120384415:89,738,464G/A—uncertain significance
rs14774195015:89,738,576C/T—benign
rs124359136315:89,738,586A/G—uncertain significance
rs802935015:89,738,636G/A—benign
rs14520814515:89,738,643G/A—uncertain significance
rs122932641315:89,738,646C/A—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.