KLK4

kallikrein related peptidase 4

Summary

Kallikreins are a subgroup of serine proteases having diverse physiological functions. Growing evidence suggests that many kallikreins are implicated in carcinogenesis and some have potential as novel cancer and other disease biomarkers. This gene is one of the fifteen kallikrein subfamily members located in a cluster on chromosome 19. In some tissues its expression is hormonally regulated. The expression pattern of a similar mouse protein in murine developing teeth supports a role for the protein in the degradation of enamel proteins. Several transcript variants encoding different proteins have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2014]

Known Variants42 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs7304238719:51,410,171A/G—benign
rs14249232619:51,410,199C/T—likely benign
rs14035075319:51,410,258C/T—uncertain significance
rs14435039519:51,410,275G/A—uncertain significance
rs3594548719:51,410,286G/Asynonymous variant—
rs77643421519:51,410,314T/C—uncertain significance
rs126628852419:51,410,318A/G—pathogenic
rs55673420819:51,410,323——pathogenic
rs19896519:51,410,398G/A—benign
rs223509119:51,410,471G/A—benign
rs170192919:51,411,329A/G—benign
rs297945119:51,411,388C/T—benign
rs18990319:51,411,565C/T—benign
rs256952719:51,411,636G/T—benign
rs251398159619:51,411,646C/T—uncertain significance
rs20131288919:51,411,682T/C—uncertain significance
rs105188739119:51,411,721T/C—uncertain significance
rs14984756819:51,411,742G/A—uncertain significance
rs3462661419:51,411,751C/T—benign
rs26760560219:51,411,835C/T—uncertain significance
rs74581166419:51,411,836G/C—uncertain significance
rs10489470419:51,411,852C/Tstop gainedpathogenic
rs14363208119:51,411,867C/T—uncertain significance
rs160004662619:51,411,898C/A—uncertain significance
rs19896619:51,412,010G/A—benign
rs4562373119:51,412,013T/G—benign
rs52940047119:51,412,057T/C—uncertain significance
rs14556016819:51,412,072C/Gmissense variant—
rs224267019:51,412,315G/A—benign
rs297864319:51,412,326C/G—benign
rs7304240219:51,412,416G/C—benign
rs20155568119:51,412,506A/G—likely pathogenic
rs118532850119:51,412,562G/T—pathogenic
rs209046516819:51,412,612G/C—uncertain significance
rs165455219:51,412,666C/A—benign
rs122476040519:51,412,667G/C—uncertain significance
rs165455119:51,412,668C/A—benign
rs7756964719:51,412,839T/G—benign
rs224266919:51,413,790A/G—benign
rs19896919:51,413,802C/G—benign
rs297864219:51,413,906A/T—benign
rs11248620819:51,413,956C/A—likely benign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.