CASP9

caspase 9

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. This protein can undergo autoproteolytic processing and activation by the apoptosome, a protein complex of cytochrome c and the apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1; this step is thought to be one of the earliest in the caspase activation cascade. This protein is thought to play a central role in apoptosis and to be a tumor suppressor. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, May 2013]

Known Variants63 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs5343072041:15,818,160G/A
rs17089459861:15,819,458G/Tuncertain significance
rs7583041861:15,819,466C/Tuncertain significance
rs25264227071:15,819,489C/Alikely benign
rs3726049291:15,819,492C/Auncertain significance
rs5545496961:15,819,502A/Tuncertain significance
rs8843631:15,819,768C/Adownstream gene variant
rs1395253451:15,820,393C/Glikely benign
rs25264316761:15,820,403T/Cuncertain significance
rs617389671:15,820,448G/Tbenign
rs7814590121:15,820,492A/Cuncertain significance
rs20209001:15,820,576T/Adownstream gene variant
rs3725380471:15,821,794A/Guncertain significance
rs17090664681:15,821,845C/Tuncertain significance
rs3678962271:15,821,896G/Tuncertain significance
rs12868383241:15,821,947T/Cuncertain significance
rs46616361:15,823,061C/Tintron variant
rs66856481:15,825,195T/G
rs46460681:15,828,704T/Cintron variant
rs2007540431:15,831,151G/Tuncertain significance
rs7454736421:15,831,169C/Tuncertain significance
rs92826251:15,831,258A/Gbenign
rs18006151:15,832,281C/Tintron variant
rs23089361:15,832,476G/Abenign
rs1453203831:15,832,494G/Alikely benign
rs7488932301:15,832,523C/Auncertain significance
rs10525761:15,832,543T/Cmissense variantbenign
rs9433745751:15,832,545C/Tlikely benign
rs46460381:15,833,200C/T
rs7650719541:15,833,464C/Tuncertain significance
rs12065147401:15,833,468C/Guncertain significance
rs15708489831:15,833,478G/Alikely benign
rs23089481:15,833,499G/Alikely benign
rs23089501:15,833,506C/Tbenign
rs1451184931:15,833,555T/Clikely benign
rs7614687061:15,833,558T/Cuncertain significance
rs20209021:15,834,360A/Gsplice region variantbenign
rs107548911:15,834,969A/T
rs107548941:15,835,234G/T
rs107548951:15,835,288G/Tregulatory region variant
rs20423701:15,841,742G/T
rs7718474291:15,844,614C/Tlikely benign
rs11323121:15,844,615A/Gbenign
rs2002775201:15,844,622C/Guncertain significance
rs7763712751:15,844,632T/Cuncertain significance
rs1473121281:15,844,688C/Tuncertain significance
rs7467361911:15,844,696C/Tlikely benign
rs7570923831:15,844,703G/Auncertain significance
rs23089381:15,844,707G/Cbenign
rs23089411:15,844,718A/Gbenign
rs1509287391:15,844,754C/Tuncertain significance
rs1503428201:15,844,761A/Tuncertain significance
rs2012847551:15,844,869G/Auncertain significance
rs42335351:15,845,197G/Cintron variant
rs2012503531:15,850,566G/Cbenign
rs7592773281:15,850,579C/Auncertain significance
rs46459831:15,850,603G/Abenign
rs10525711:15,850,613G/Abenign
rs7543053221:15,850,670A/Guncertain significance
rs3707300701:15,850,672G/Abenign
rs10073296781:15,850,680G/Auncertain significance
rs46459811:15,851,483G/Aregulatory region variant
rs46459781:15,852,034C/A

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.