UGT1A4

UDP glucuronosyltransferase family 1 member A4

Pharmacogene

Summary

This gene encodes a UDP-glucuronosyltransferase, an enzyme of the glucuronidation pathway that transforms small lipophilic molecules, such as steroids, bilirubin, hormones, and drugs, into water-soluble, excretable metabolites. This gene is part of a complex locus that encodes several UDP-glucuronosyltransferases. The locus includes thirteen unique alternate first exons followed by four common exons. Four of the alternate first exons are considered pseudogenes. Each of the remaining nine 5' exons may be spliced to the four common exons, resulting in nine proteins with different N-termini and identical C-termini. Each first exon encodes the substrate binding site, and is regulated by its own promoter. This enzyme has some glucuronidase activity towards bilirubin, although is is more active on amines, steroids, and sapogenins. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants35 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs37322192:233,718,602C/Tupstream gene variant—
rs38922212:233,718,851C/Tmissense variant—
rs1414083912:233,718,993CG/Cframeshift variant—
rs1838024142:233,719,091C/Tmissense variant—
rs2013232452:233,719,112C/Tstop gained—
rs124682742:233,719,268T/Csynonymous variant—
rs5629777002:233,719,688G/Tsplice donor variant—
rs20112192:233,719,730C/Tintron variant—
rs20114252:234,627,397T/Amissense—
rs13176474822:234,627,477G/A—uncertain significance
rs1493149402:234,627,498G/A—likely benign
rs621918992:234,627,508A/G—likely benign
rs7546342282:234,627,510G/T—uncertain significance
rs1399274492:234,627,519T/A—uncertain significance
rs7747561892:234,627,531T/C—uncertain significance
rs1408605882:234,627,606C/T—likely benign
rs455106942:234,627,616G/C—likely benign
rs9302163912:234,627,623G/T—uncertain significance
rs2006391662:234,627,624C/G—uncertain significance
rs12262401362:234,627,633A/G—uncertain significance
rs14500204792:234,627,723A/G—uncertain significance
rs3763701432:234,627,740G/A—uncertain significance
rs7740106312:234,627,761G/C—uncertain significance
rs7640978122:234,627,800A/G—uncertain significance
rs12028488342:234,627,814T/G—uncertain significance
rs7623671002:234,627,926G/T—uncertain significance
rs1485658522:234,627,942C/T—uncertain significance
rs15593649662:234,628,151G/T—uncertain significance
rs7577462692:234,628,165T/C—likely benign
rs3772618012:234,628,177G/C—uncertain significance
rs13695863192:234,628,211G/C—likely benign
rs7494067692:234,628,217T/C—likely benign
rs5744186792:234,628,269C/T—uncertain significance
rs20767954292:234,628,328T/C—uncertain significance
rs12554875942:234,681,025G/A—likely benign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.