CDH18

cadherin 18

Summary

This gene encodes a type II classical cadherin from the cadherin superfamily of integral membrane proteins that mediate calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion. Mature cadherin proteins are composed of a large N-terminal extracellular domain, a single membrane-spanning domain, and a small, highly conserved C-terminal cytoplasmic domain. Type II (atypical) cadherins are defined based on their lack of a HAV cell adhesion recognition sequence specific to type I cadherins. This particular cadherin is expressed specifically in the central nervous system and is putatively involved in synaptic adhesion, axon outgrowth and guidance. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, May 2014]

Known Variants53 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs14430025545:19,473,386A/Cuncertain significance
rs7801619555:19,473,435G/Auncertain significance
rs7571086745:19,473,460T/Cuncertain significance
rs7512811075:19,473,767T/Glikely benign
rs2000800465:19,473,790T/Cuncertain significance
rs7581930135:19,473,798C/Tuncertain significance
rs1461166735:19,483,448G/Cuncertain significance
rs5442328765:19,483,518C/Tuncertain significance
rs7710627805:19,483,619C/Guncertain significance
rs7516910155:19,503,165C/Auncertain significance
rs2005233955:19,503,178G/Tuncertain significance
rs37496225:19,503,337T/Cintron variant
rs3477025:19,511,474T/Aintron variant
rs4272035:19,512,167T/Cintron variant
rs4257245:19,518,050T/Cintron variant
rs4475055:19,518,166C/A
rs7526483875:19,520,794A/Guncertain significance
rs7535112815:19,520,818T/Guncertain significance
rs3706304275:19,520,819C/Tuncertain significance
rs1420331285:19,520,861T/Glikely benign
rs24791550595:19,520,874C/Auncertain significance
rs7973115:19,527,664A/Gintron variant
rs1419661395:19,544,046C/Auncertain significance
rs7768139735:19,544,112T/Auncertain significance
rs178569085:19,571,703G/Cuncertain significance
rs7619354545:19,571,740C/Tuncertain significance
rs785897405:19,571,783A/Cbenign
rs7476775495:19,571,860A/Cuncertain significance
rs1484506245:19,571,871C/Tuncertain significance
rs172857165:19,591,174A/Guncertain significance
rs7556639445:19,591,243T/Guncertain significance
rs2014558715:19,612,602G/Tuncertain significance
rs3689426715:19,612,654C/Tuncertain significance
rs1472393355:19,721,517G/Abenign
rs25320817025:19,747,092T/Guncertain significance
rs7777429485:19,747,138T/Cuncertain significance
rs25309406195:19,838,900G/Cuncertain significance
rs25309461385:19,839,092T/Cuncertain significance
rs1879758935:19,918,555C/Tintron variant
rs557682945:19,932,942A/T
rs64515755:19,959,057A/Tintron variant
rs131738925:19,982,913G/Tintron variant
rs1897299205:20,084,228T/Cintron variant
rs119496115:20,135,920G/Cintron variant
rs1424723225:20,301,624T/C
rs1119132245:20,304,424A/Gcoding sequence variant
rs100705095:20,312,639C/G
rs769300555:20,351,684A/Cintron variant
rs786244835:20,367,604T/Cintron variant
rs730587135:20,374,213C/T
rs1896955405:20,454,607G/Tintron variant
rs3695634335:20,473,914A/G
rs5559918935:20,505,127C/T

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.