NRF1

nuclear respiratory factor 1

Summary

This gene encodes a protein that homodimerizes and functions as a transcription factor which activates the expression of some key metabolic genes regulating cellular growth and nuclear genes required for respiration, heme biosynthesis, and mitochondrial DNA transcription and replication. The protein has also been associated with the regulation of neurite outgrowth. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Confusion has occurred in bibliographic databases due to the shared symbol of NRF1 for this gene and for "nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 1" which has an official symbol of NFE2L1. [provided by RefSeq, May 2014]

Known Variants15 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs69611027:129,249,773T/Gcoding sequence variant—
rs69681687:129,277,714G/T——
rs77888497:129,281,919C/Aintron variant—
rs12441910227:129,297,246G/T—uncertain significance
rs1438826727:129,297,323G/A—benign
rs77895167:129,303,373T/G——
rs1464044767:129,311,285C/T—benign
rs96418557:129,356,206G/Aintron variant—
rs7790765427:129,357,067A/C—uncertain significance
rs25357429957:129,357,200A/G—uncertain significance
rs175566947:129,357,830G/Tintron variant—
rs1497648677:129,367,090C/T—benign
rs18034720217:129,367,163G/A—uncertain significance
rs3687029647:129,367,175G/A—uncertain significance
rs115572887:129,396,174C/Tcoding sequence variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.