GYPC

glycophorin C (Gerbich blood group)

Summary

Glycophorin C (GYPC) is an integral membrane glycoprotein. It is a minor species carried by human erythrocytes, but plays an important role in regulating the mechanical stability of red cells. A number of glycophorin C mutations have been described. The Gerbich and Yus phenotypes are due to deletion of exon 3 and 2, respectively. The Webb and Duch antigens, also known as glycophorin D, result from single point mutations of the glycophorin C gene. The glycophorin C protein has very little homology with glycophorins A and B. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2012]

Known Variants42 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs41430202:127,413,616G/Abenign
rs1219127602:127,413,862A/Gmissense variantaffects
rs1219127612:127,413,879C/Tmissense variantaffects
rs7689998432:127,413,883G/Auncertain significance
rs7815923122:127,413,885C/Tuncertain significance
rs46630392:127,423,075G/Aintron variant
rs283871112:127,424,539C/Tintron variant
rs283871292:127,427,673C/Tintron variant
rs283871482:127,433,465C/Tupstream gene variant
rs67098032:127,447,763G/Abenign
rs1432160512:127,447,840C/Tlikely benign
rs560706382:127,447,841G/Alikely benign
rs7792630822:127,451,414C/Tuncertain significance
rs3677197732:127,451,437C/Tuncertain significance
rs24673571342:127,451,442C/Auncertain significance
rs1397801422:127,451,467C/Guncertain significance
rs1141991972:127,451,481G/Auncertain significance
rs3758461262:127,451,483G/Cuncertain significance
rs5318073142:127,451,491C/Tuncertain significance
rs5637895672:127,451,500T/Auncertain significance
rs1398491962:127,451,505G/Auncertain significance
rs13903164292:127,451,512T/Clikely benign
rs283872192:127,451,531C/Gbenign
rs1127120872:127,451,679G/Cintron variant
rs15301472:127,453,261A/Cbenign
rs19685392:127,453,301C/Tbenign
rs15301482:127,453,386T/Cbenign
rs45381462:127,453,479G/Abenign
rs7629044992:127,453,525T/Cuncertain significance
rs11730937192:127,453,529T/Guncertain significance
rs7538873642:127,453,542A/Guncertain significance
rs1152010712:127,453,543T/Clikely benign
rs2008797142:127,453,545G/Auncertain significance
rs1502197602:127,453,566G/Auncertain significance
rs7694637702:127,453,575C/Tuncertain significance
rs1151789692:127,453,579A/Guncertain significance
rs1430806072:127,453,585A/Tuncertain significance
rs1398161432:127,453,588G/Auncertain significance
rs2000622042:127,453,593A/Cuncertain significance
rs1511673342:127,453,600C/Tuncertain significance
rs1499255762:127,453,627C/Tuncertain significance
rs10509672:127,453,664A/Cbenign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.