PEMT

phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase

Summary

Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the most abundant mammalian phospholipid. This gene encodes an enzyme which converts phosphatidylethanolamine to phosphatidylcholine by sequential methylation in the liver. Another distinct synthetic pathway in nucleated cells converts intracellular choline to phosphatidylcholine by a three-step process. The protein isoforms encoded by this gene localize to the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria-associated membranes. Alternate splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, May 2012]

Known Variants46 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs794617:17,409,560C/Tmissense variantbenign
rs105529238817:17,409,586G/A—uncertain significance
rs36874492417:17,412,800C/T—uncertain significance
rs77328821917:17,412,848C/T—uncertain significance
rs133677417817:17,415,877C/T—uncertain significance
rs464640617:17,417,169T/C——
rs216834517:17,419,338G/Cintron variant—
rs464640417:17,420,199G/Aintron variant—
rs424459317:17,420,218T/Gintron variant—
rs110857917:17,422,354C/Tintron variant—
rs7096301717:17,423,132T/Cintron variant—
rs1165887217:17,425,069C/Tintron variant—
rs77515350217:17,425,603C/T—uncertain significance
rs89745317:17,425,631C/Gmissense variant—
rs7785776817:17,425,684C/T—benign
rs77990130117:17,425,702C/T—uncertain significance
rs5938777617:17,430,085T/Aintron variant—
rs1040103817:17,433,591C/Gintron variant—
rs988958417:17,434,141G/Aintron variant—
rs1294137117:17,438,318G/Aintron variant—
rs721415217:17,440,823C/Tintron variant—
rs464639217:17,441,359C/Aregulatory region variant—
rs464638817:17,444,369G/Aintron variant—
rs1165162017:17,444,874G/T——
rs54362612617:17,447,409A/G——
rs990503217:17,457,768G/Aintron variant—
rs1334239717:17,460,926T/Cintron variant—
rs2863695217:17,462,506T/Cintron variant—
rs1165477717:17,462,630C/Gintron variant—
rs6083119417:17,466,052G/Aintron variant—
rs1165831117:17,470,526C/Tintron variant—
rs464635617:17,471,175G/C——
rs464635117:17,474,143C/G——
rs89745017:17,475,350T/A——
rs1293994517:17,476,914T/Cintron variant—
rs1187166717:17,477,847C/A——
rs6764034817:17,479,525A/Gupstream gene variant—
rs36805386417:17,480,290G/A—uncertain significance
rs76773593717:17,480,319C/A—uncertain significance
rs5727794817:17,481,317T/G——
rs2865261817:17,482,766C/A——
rs2858358417:17,483,297G/T——
rs227895217:17,485,584G/T——
rs1232581717:17,486,519C/T——
rs989502817:17,489,606A/C——
rs464634317:17,492,077G/Tupstream gene variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.