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/A—uncertain significance
rs7576227301:156,669,861G/A—uncertain significance
rs1396341701:156,670,334C/G—likely benign
rs9375574881:156,670,388C/G—uncertain significance
rs16480047701:156,670,446A/T—uncertain significance
rs3763545151:156,670,707C/T—uncertain significance
rs7717859831:156,670,737G/A—uncertain significance
rs7752932121:156,670,740C/T—uncertain significance
rs16480178851:156,670,838T/C—uncertain significance
rs7739646171:156,670,839T/A—uncertain significance
rs5507717881:156,674,296C/A——
rs7643223831:156,675,181G/T—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.