DDX39A

DExD-box helicase 39A

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the DEAD box protein family. These proteins are characterized by the conserved motif Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD) and are putative RNA helicases. They are implicated in a number of cellular processes involving alteration of RNA secondary structure, such as translation initiation, nuclear and mitochondrial splicing, and ribosome and spliceosome assembly. Based on their distribution patterns, some members of the DEAD box protein family are believed to be involved in embryogenesis, spermatogenesis, and cellular growth and division. This gene is thought to play a role in the prognosis of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors. A pseudogene of this gene is present on chromosome 13. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Additional alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but their full-length nature is not known. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2013]

Known Variants17 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs121735269819:14,519,762C/Tuncertain significance
rs136037804819:14,519,864C/Tuncertain significance
rs14120797319:14,520,379C/Tuncertain significance
rs197647117919:14,520,382T/Cuncertain significance
rs89765360119:14,520,387G/Auncertain significance
rs37121991719:14,520,595G/Auncertain significance
rs37330360019:14,521,054G/Cuncertain significance
rs78620551619:14,521,083A/Tmissense variantpathogenic
rs14542764019:14,521,123T/Cuncertain significance
rs74700445719:14,521,137C/Tuncertain significance
rs77772742519:14,521,808C/Auncertain significance
rs13888238119:14,521,875C/Tuncertain significance
rs37510905319:14,521,924A/Guncertain significance
rs251278750119:14,523,921A/Guncertain significance
rs77586635819:14,523,961C/Auncertain significance
rs11282098119:14,523,988T/Cbenign
rs1188220619:14,525,140A/T

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.