ASAH2

N-acylsphingosine amidohydrolase 2

Summary

Ceramidases (EC 3.5.1.23), such as ASAH2, catalyze hydrolysis of the N-acyl linkage of ceramide, a second messenger in a variety of cellular events, to produce sphingosine. Sphingosine exerts both mitogenic and apoptosis-inducing activities, and its phosphorylated form functions as an intra- and intercellular second messenger (see MIM 603730) (Mitsutake et al., 2001 [PubMed 11328816]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]

Known Variants21 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs75075346810:51,974,504C/G—uncertain significance
rs78128174510:51,974,540G/A—uncertain significance
rs104924093610:51,978,193A/G——
rs76844510810:51,978,294C/A—uncertain significance
rs117998094310:51,994,305T/G—uncertain significance
rs20218381510:51,994,615C/G——
rs123859383510:52,003,002C/T—uncertain significance
rs76659837310:52,003,017C/T—uncertain significance
rs7518508710:52,003,111T/C—uncertain significance
rs74934334510:52,005,004C/A—uncertain significance
rs11604971910:52,005,095G/Astop gained—
rs254064186710:52,005,106G/A—uncertain significance
rs75778664210:52,005,121G/A—uncertain significance
rs14171336910:52,005,146G/A—uncertain significance
rs136986210:52,006,008A/C——
rs127373030010:52,008,259T/C—uncertain significance
rs146622725410:52,008,272G/C—uncertain significance
rs18082233010:52,008,274T/C—uncertain significance
rs74561350710:52,008,307C/T—uncertain significance
rs1050892110:52,010,708C/Tupstream gene variant—
rs1100480210:52,011,440G/Cupstream gene variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.