KERA (keratocan)

2014-11-01  

Identity

HGNC
LOCATION
12q21.33
LOCUSID
ALIAS
CNA2,KTN,SLRR2B

Other Information

Locus ID:

NCBI: 11081
MIM: 603288
HGNC: 6309
Ensembl: ENSG00000139330

Variants:

dbSNP: 11081
ClinVar: 11081
TCGA: ENSG00000139330
COSMIC: KERA

RNA/Proteins

Gene IDTranscript IDUniprot
ENSG00000139330ENST00000266719O60938

Expression (GTEx)

0
1

Pathways

PathwaySourceExternal ID
DiseaseREACTOMER-HSA-1643685
Diseases of glycosylationREACTOMER-HSA-3781865
Diseases associated with glycosaminoglycan metabolismREACTOMER-HSA-3560782
Defective B4GALT1 causes B4GALT1-CDG (CDG-2d)REACTOMER-HSA-3656244
Defective CHST6 causes MCDC1REACTOMER-HSA-3656225
MetabolismREACTOMER-HSA-1430728
Metabolism of carbohydratesREACTOMER-HSA-71387
Glycosaminoglycan metabolismREACTOMER-HSA-1630316
Keratan sulfate/keratin metabolismREACTOMER-HSA-1638074
Keratan sulfate biosynthesisREACTOMER-HSA-2022854
Keratan sulfate degradationREACTOMER-HSA-2022857
Defective ST3GAL3 causes MCT12 and EIEE15REACTOMER-HSA-3656243

Protein levels (Protein atlas)

Not detected
Low
Medium
High

References

Pubmed IDYearTitleCitations
186206072008Fragmentation of decorin, biglycan, lumican and keratocan is elevated in degenerate human meniscus, knee and hip articular cartilages compared with age-matched macroscopically normal and control tissues.34
198345352009Sequential use of transcriptional profiling, expression quantitative trait mapping, and gene association implicates MMP20 in human kidney aging.27
153705452004A novel KERA mutation associated with autosomal recessive cornea plana.10
176799372007Study of p.N247S KERA mutation in a British family with cornea plana.8
170119572006Recessive cornea plana in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.6
203609932010Candidate gene study to investigate the genetic determinants of normal variation in central corneal thickness.6
161578072005Clinical and molecular characterization of a family with autosomal recessive cornea plana.5
175588462007Autosomal dominant cornea plana is not associated with pathogenic mutations in DCN, DSPG3, FOXC1, KERA, LUM, or PITX2.4
203571982010Linkage of posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy to chromosome 12q21.33 and exclusion of coding region mutations in KERA, LUM, DCN, and EPYC.3
238345572014Corneal endothelial findings in a Czech patient with compound heterozygous mutations in KERA.3

Citation

Dessen P

KERA (keratocan)

Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2014-11-01

Online version: http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/gene/64839/kera