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/Auncertain significance
rs36874492417:17,412,800C/Tuncertain significance
rs77328821917:17,412,848C/Tuncertain significance
rs133677417817:17,415,877C/Tuncertain 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/Tuncertain significance
rs89745317:17,425,631C/Gmissense variant
rs7785776817:17,425,684C/Tbenign
rs77990130117:17,425,702C/Tuncertain 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/Auncertain significance
rs76773593717:17,480,319C/Auncertain 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.