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/T—uncertain significance
rs623451875:272,057T/G——
rs1450369625:272,829C/T—likely benign
rs5376881225:272,856A/Gsynonymous variant—
rs5495920745:272,863G/Cmissense variant—
rs5713702815:272,870A/Gmissense variant—
rs7653657275:272,873A/G—uncertain significance
rs24775612845:272,878C/T—uncertain significance
rs1999416315:272,886C/G—uncertain 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/A—uncertain significance
rs7585657975:306,806C/T—uncertain significance
rs7619775235:306,809A/G—uncertain significance
rs5459850055:306,810C/T—uncertain significance
rs1911422075:306,838C/G—uncertain significance
rs37567125:309,096A/T——
rs14167625925:311,413C/T—uncertain significance
rs7728465905:311,447G/A—uncertain significance
rs13550762995:311,456A/G—uncertain significance
rs9095008935:314,544A/G—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.