PSCA

prostate stem cell antigen

Summary

This gene encodes a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored cell membrane glycoprotein. In addition to being highly expressed in the prostate it is also expressed in the bladder, placenta, colon, kidney, and stomach. This gene is up-regulated in a large proportion of prostate cancers and is also detected in cancers of the bladder and pancreas. This gene includes a polymorphism that results in an upstream start codon in some individuals; this polymorphism is thought to be associated with a risk for certain gastric and bladder cancers. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2010]

Known Variants34 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1493555908:143,751,771G/Acoding sequence variant
rs29789748:143,751,864G/Acoding sequence variant
rs92979768:143,752,235T/Cupstream gene variant
rs29763848:143,752,994T/A
rs1470441958:143,754,529C/Tintron variant
rs29202868:143,754,728G/Aintron variant
rs5876976078:143,755,512C/T
rs346356478:143,756,890A/G
rs29202838:143,757,037T/Cregulatory region variant
rs29789818:143,759,137C/G
rs29763878:143,759,364G/Aupstream gene variant
rs1429140968:143,759,383C/Tupstream gene variant
rs117867218:143,760,179T/A
rs29763888:143,760,256G/Aupstream gene variant
rs29202818:143,760,444C/G
rs29202808:143,761,144G/T
rs5876370318:143,761,505G/Acoding sequence variant
rs22940088:143,761,931C/Tcoding sequence variantbenign
rs15546382008:143,761,978C/Tuncertain significance
rs29202798:143,762,135A/Tcoding sequence variant
rs29763918:143,762,724C/Gregulatory region variant
rs7819293668:143,762,785C/Auncertain significance
rs18146315548:143,762,823T/Guncertain significance
rs5876518968:143,762,839G/Cuncertain significance
rs29763928:143,762,932G/T
rs5877424708:143,763,447A/Cuncertain significance
rs15546384368:143,763,458G/Auncertain significance
rs7822388438:143,763,480A/Tuncertain significance
rs29789828:143,763,490T/Gsynonymous variant
rs13742618068:143,763,507T/Cuncertain significance
rs3693847968:143,763,539G/Alikely benign
rs10455318:143,763,547C/Asynonymous variant
rs29763938:143,763,618C/T
rs102165338:143,763,690G/Aregulatory region variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.