CASP7

caspase 7

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. The precursor of the encoded protein is cleaved by caspase 3 and 10, is activated upon cell death stimuli and induces apoptosis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, May 2012]

Known Variants36 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1241560710:115,438,204C/Aupstream gene variant
rs1119641810:115,438,466G/Aupstream gene variant
rs790751910:115,441,683A/Cregulatory region variant
rs13789208910:115,451,790C/Tlikely benign
rs1155540810:115,457,264T/Gmissense variant
rs249393883010:115,457,277G/Auncertain significance
rs36797586410:115,457,296A/Tuncertain significance
rs11538925710:115,457,335G/Auncertain significance
rs37258782210:115,457,353C/Auncertain significance
rs77034559510:115,457,355C/Guncertain significance
rs1277733210:115,458,936A/Gintron variant
rs312474010:115,469,625C/T
rs312707510:115,472,113G/A
rs381423110:115,481,018C/Tupstream gene variant
rs11518302810:115,481,418G/Auncertain significance
rs98046699810:115,481,451C/Tuncertain significance
rs1241610910:115,484,660G/Aintron variant
rs14335463110:115,485,245G/Abenign
rs20104023710:115,485,256G/Cuncertain significance
rs14126692510:115,485,285C/Tlikely benign
rs249405180410:115,485,295A/Guncertain significance
rs18710679910:115,486,079G/Auncertain significance
rs37540907110:115,486,107C/Tuncertain significance
rs1241179810:115,487,493C/T
rs1277145210:115,488,331G/Aintron variant
rs19142989910:115,489,128C/Tlikely benign
rs222731010:115,489,152C/Gmissense variantbenign
rs97426102710:115,489,203C/Guncertain significance
rs249407321510:115,489,246C/Guncertain significance
rs75180212410:115,489,251C/Guncertain significance
rs185348048510:115,489,252C/Tuncertain significance
rs6175527910:115,489,254C/Tlikely benign
rs435322910:115,489,589T/C3 prime UTR variant
rs1078749810:115,489,650T/G3 prime UTR variant
rs1224747910:115,490,060G/A3 prime UTR variant
rs112768710:115,490,109G/A3 prime UTR variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.