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/T—likely benign
rs1155540810:115,457,264T/Gmissense variant—
rs249393883010:115,457,277G/A—uncertain significance
rs36797586410:115,457,296A/T—uncertain significance
rs11538925710:115,457,335G/A—uncertain significance
rs37258782210:115,457,353C/A—uncertain significance
rs77034559510:115,457,355C/G—uncertain 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/A—uncertain significance
rs98046699810:115,481,451C/T—uncertain significance
rs1241610910:115,484,660G/Aintron variant—
rs14335463110:115,485,245G/A—benign
rs20104023710:115,485,256G/C—uncertain significance
rs14126692510:115,485,285C/T—likely benign
rs249405180410:115,485,295A/G—uncertain significance
rs18710679910:115,486,079G/A—uncertain significance
rs37540907110:115,486,107C/T—uncertain significance
rs1241179810:115,487,493C/T——
rs1277145210:115,488,331G/Aintron variant—
rs19142989910:115,489,128C/T—likely benign
rs222731010:115,489,152C/Gmissense variantbenign
rs97426102710:115,489,203C/G—uncertain significance
rs249407321510:115,489,246C/G—uncertain significance
rs75180212410:115,489,251C/G—uncertain significance
rs185348048510:115,489,252C/T—uncertain significance
rs6175527910:115,489,254C/T—likely 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.