BCAT1

branched chain amino acid transaminase 1

Summary

This gene encodes the cytosolic form of the enzyme branched-chain amino acid transaminase. This enzyme catalyzes the reversible transamination of branched-chain alpha-keto acids to branched-chain L-amino acids essential for cell growth. Two different clinical disorders have been attributed to a defect of branched-chain amino acid transamination: hypervalinemia and hyperleucine-isoleucinemia. As there is also a gene encoding a mitochondrial form of this enzyme, mutations in either gene may contribute to these disorders. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described. [provided by RefSeq, May 2010]

Known Variants34 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs11720062012:24,970,966A/Gbenign
rs75605314312:24,970,981A/Glikely benign
rs796115212:24,981,611A/T
rs74991507412:24,982,786G/Auncertain significance
rs20093008712:24,982,787G/Tuncertain significance
rs74895597412:24,982,810C/Tuncertain significance
rs14463237212:24,985,659C/Tlikely benign
rs56816861812:24,985,669C/Tlikely benign
rs76273385012:24,985,738C/Tlikely benign
rs731302012:24,985,740C/Tmissense variant
rs76148655212:24,989,456C/Tuncertain significance
rs76016830812:24,989,497A/Tuncertain significance
rs6191486512:24,989,801A/T
rs37125691312:24,995,041A/Tuncertain significance
rs55635303212:24,995,153T/Cuncertain significance
rs20182528112:25,002,738C/Guncertain significance
rs20094161812:25,002,847G/Auncertain significance
rs76046710912:25,031,481T/Cuncertain significance
rs14452788312:25,031,537T/Guncertain significance
rs254785726712:25,031,568C/Tuncertain significance
rs75663681412:25,034,243T/Cuncertain significance
rs75423675612:25,034,261G/Auncertain significance
rs20161943612:25,047,306T/Guncertain significance
rs1737428512:25,047,312G/Alikely benign
rs36850158812:25,047,324T/Cuncertain significance
rs76459857112:25,047,409C/Tuncertain significance
rs18568669812:25,054,769T/Clikely benign
rs1737460612:25,054,787A/Gbenign
rs229189412:25,054,891G/Abenign
rs96843047412:25,055,889C/Tuncertain significance
rs194315469212:25,055,894G/Auncertain significance
rs254792981012:25,055,897G/Auncertain significance
rs797295512:25,079,295G/T
rs7264014012:25,092,798C/Aintron variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.