CRABP2

cellular retinoic acid binding protein 2

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the retinoic acid (RA, a form of vitamin A) binding protein family and lipocalin/cytosolic fatty-acid binding protein family. The protein is a cytosol-to-nuclear shuttling protein, which facilitates RA binding to its cognate receptor complex and transfer to the nucleus. It is involved in the retinoid signaling pathway, and is associated with increased circulating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene.[provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]

Known Variants13 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1888396371:156,669,050G/Tdownstream gene variant
rs1396207821:156,669,858G/Auncertain significance
rs7576227301:156,669,861G/Auncertain significance
rs1396341701:156,670,334C/Glikely benign
rs9375574881:156,670,388C/Guncertain significance
rs16480047701:156,670,446A/Tuncertain significance
rs3763545151:156,670,707C/Tuncertain significance
rs7717859831:156,670,737G/Auncertain significance
rs7752932121:156,670,740C/Tuncertain significance
rs16480178851:156,670,838T/Cuncertain significance
rs7739646171:156,670,839T/Auncertain significance
rs5507717881:156,674,296C/A
rs7643223831:156,675,181G/Tuncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.