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/T—uncertain significance
rs7583041861:15,819,466C/T—uncertain significance
rs25264227071:15,819,489C/A—likely benign
rs3726049291:15,819,492C/A—uncertain significance
rs5545496961:15,819,502A/T—uncertain significance
rs8843631:15,819,768C/Adownstream gene variant—
rs1395253451:15,820,393C/G—likely benign
rs25264316761:15,820,403T/C—uncertain significance
rs617389671:15,820,448G/T—benign
rs7814590121:15,820,492A/C—uncertain significance
rs20209001:15,820,576T/Adownstream gene variant—
rs3725380471:15,821,794A/G—uncertain significance
rs17090664681:15,821,845C/T—uncertain significance
rs3678962271:15,821,896G/T—uncertain significance
rs12868383241:15,821,947T/C—uncertain significance
rs46616361:15,823,061C/Tintron variant—
rs66856481:15,825,195T/G——
rs46460681:15,828,704T/Cintron variant—
rs2007540431:15,831,151G/T—uncertain significance
rs7454736421:15,831,169C/T—uncertain significance
rs92826251:15,831,258A/G—benign
rs18006151:15,832,281C/Tintron variant—
rs23089361:15,832,476G/A—benign
rs1453203831:15,832,494G/A—likely benign
rs7488932301:15,832,523C/A—uncertain significance
rs10525761:15,832,543T/Cmissense variantbenign
rs9433745751:15,832,545C/T—likely benign
rs46460381:15,833,200C/T——
rs7650719541:15,833,464C/T—uncertain significance
rs12065147401:15,833,468C/G—uncertain significance
rs15708489831:15,833,478G/A—likely benign
rs23089481:15,833,499G/A—likely benign
rs23089501:15,833,506C/T—benign
rs1451184931:15,833,555T/C—likely benign
rs7614687061:15,833,558T/C—uncertain 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/T—likely benign
rs11323121:15,844,615A/G—benign
rs2002775201:15,844,622C/G—uncertain significance
rs7763712751:15,844,632T/C—uncertain significance
rs1473121281:15,844,688C/T—uncertain significance
rs7467361911:15,844,696C/T—likely benign
rs7570923831:15,844,703G/A—uncertain significance
rs23089381:15,844,707G/C—benign
rs23089411:15,844,718A/G—benign
rs1509287391:15,844,754C/T—uncertain significance
rs1503428201:15,844,761A/T—uncertain significance
rs2012847551:15,844,869G/A—uncertain significance
rs42335351:15,845,197G/Cintron variant—
rs2012503531:15,850,566G/C—benign
rs7592773281:15,850,579C/A—uncertain significance
rs46459831:15,850,603G/A—benign
rs10525711:15,850,613G/A—benign
rs7543053221:15,850,670A/G—uncertain significance
rs3707300701:15,850,672G/A—benign
rs10073296781:15,850,680G/A—uncertain significance
rs46459811:15,851,483G/Aregulatory region variant—
rs46459781:15,852,034C/A——

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.