CA9

carbonic anhydrase 9

Summary

Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are a large family of zinc metalloenzymes that catalyze the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide. They participate in a variety of biological processes, including respiration, calcification, acid-base balance, bone resorption, and the formation of aqueous humor, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, and gastric acid. They show extensive diversity in tissue distribution and in their subcellular localization. CA IX is a transmembrane protein and is one of only two tumor-associated carbonic anhydrase isoenzymes known. It is expressed in all clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, but is not detected in normal kidney or most other normal tissues. It may be involved in cell proliferation and transformation. This gene was mapped to 17q21.2 by fluorescence in situ hybridization, however, radiation hybrid mapping localized it to 9p13-p12. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2014]

Known Variants34 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs20716769:35,674,053G/Amissense variant
rs125531739:35,674,101T/Gmissense variant
rs1437778029:35,674,140G/Cuncertain significance
rs7590489949:35,674,164G/Tuncertain significance
rs3711833979:35,674,167T/Clikely benign
rs7739238729:35,674,200G/Tuncertain significance
rs7506384649:35,674,242C/Tuncertain significance
rs2013184339:35,674,258A/Guncertain significance
rs1812132939:35,674,298T/Cbenign
rs24906524359:35,675,851C/Tuncertain significance
rs7788534829:35,675,857G/Tuncertain significance
rs1995164199:35,675,865G/Auncertain significance
rs13082468369:35,676,073T/Cuncertain significance
rs7629474899:35,676,117C/Guncertain significance
rs7496539739:35,676,144G/Auncertain significance
rs7682110189:35,676,166C/Tuncertain significance
rs7539405569:35,676,331T/Guncertain significance
rs1839852359:35,677,780C/Asplice region variant
rs7735307959:35,677,794C/Tuncertain significance
rs7468575439:35,677,844G/Alikely benign
rs1399278699:35,679,211A/Glikely benign
rs1418228589:35,679,214T/Auncertain significance
rs38290789:35,679,251A/Gmissense variant
rs7779089889:35,679,263C/Tuncertain significance
rs14077923419:35,679,317C/Tuncertain significance
rs5654411409:35,679,915C/Tlikely benign
rs5757437109:35,679,918C/Tuncertain significance
rs24906593899:35,679,962G/Auncertain significance
rs7719892979:35,680,797G/Alikely benign
rs5480550989:35,680,801C/Tuncertain significance
rs1512684699:35,680,810T/Cuncertain significance
rs1425389149:35,680,976G/Cuncertain significance
rs5746951329:35,680,985G/Auncertain significance
rs10486389:35,681,122C/Aregulatory region variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.