PDCD6

programmed cell death 6

Summary

This gene encodes a calcium-binding protein belonging to the penta-EF-hand protein family. Calcium binding is important for homodimerization and for conformational changes required for binding to other protein partners. This gene product participates in T cell receptor-, Fas-, and glucocorticoid-induced programmed cell death. In mice deficient for this gene product, however, apoptosis was not blocked suggesting this gene product is functionally redundant. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for this gene, and a pseudogene of this gene is also located on the short arm of chromosome 5. [provided by RefSeq, May 2012]

Known Variants27 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs7617738605:271,903C/Tuncertain significance
rs623451875:272,057T/G
rs1450369625:272,829C/Tlikely benign
rs5376881225:272,856A/Gsynonymous variant
rs5495920745:272,863G/Cmissense variant
rs5713702815:272,870A/Gmissense variant
rs7653657275:272,873A/Guncertain significance
rs24775612845:272,878C/Tuncertain significance
rs1999416315:272,886C/Guncertain significance
rs623451885:273,143A/G
rs284635445:285,479G/Adownstream gene variant
rs49570145:288,014T/Gdownstream gene variant
rs5324476705:298,925T/C
rs5710868805:299,252C/A
rs5757911605:299,981T/A
rs623299925:301,699C/T
rs119516255:302,586C/Tupstream gene variant
rs13564954295:304,295C/Auncertain significance
rs7585657975:306,806C/Tuncertain significance
rs7619775235:306,809A/Guncertain significance
rs5459850055:306,810C/Tuncertain significance
rs1911422075:306,838C/Guncertain significance
rs37567125:309,096A/T
rs14167625925:311,413C/Tuncertain significance
rs7728465905:311,447G/Auncertain significance
rs13550762995:311,456A/Guncertain significance
rs9095008935:314,544A/Guncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.