FADS6

fatty acid desaturase 6

Summary

Predicted to enable oxidoreductase activity, acting on paired donors, with oxidation of a pair of donors resulting in the reduction of molecular oxygen to two molecules of water. Predicted to be involved in lipid metabolic process. Predicted to be located in membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Known Variants28 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs37276169117:72,874,489G/Auncertain significance
rs37574951717:72,874,500A/Guncertain significance
rs76078841517:72,874,518C/Tlikely benign
rs55614415517:72,874,569T/Cuncertain significance
rs19997580617:72,875,670C/Tuncertain significance
rs37585173717:72,875,671G/Auncertain significance
rs77907926517:72,875,674G/Auncertain significance
rs203854595217:72,875,697A/Guncertain significance
rs75173257017:72,877,224G/Auncertain significance
rs20224370617:72,877,230C/Tuncertain significance
rs55238791817:72,877,256C/Tuncertain significance
rs132558414217:72,877,349C/Tuncertain significance
rs37529237717:72,877,350G/Auncertain significance
rs37325444717:72,877,383G/Auncertain significance
rs254438471717:72,877,385T/Cuncertain significance
rs74925500617:72,878,711T/Cuncertain significance
rs127472011617:72,878,725T/Cuncertain significance
rs74578212917:72,878,798C/Tlikely benign
rs77907398917:72,888,780A/Guncertain significance
rs36766465917:72,888,801C/Auncertain significance
rs11152721617:72,889,537T/Cuncertain significance
rs36963819617:72,889,585C/Tuncertain significance
rs156793097017:72,889,599A/Glikely benign
rs254440684017:72,889,601C/Guncertain significance
rs119467968217:72,889,650G/Tuncertain significance
rs56188640517:72,889,669G/Auncertain significance
rs156793118717:72,889,674A/Tuncertain significance
rs53555024917:72,890,217T/G

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.