Manually Curated Gene Information
Overview
Rare diseases may individually be rare but collectively are a common problem. Information on pathogenic variants is vital for disease diagnosis as well as research on therapeutic approaches. Despite being published in the literature, pathogenicity data on patient variants may not be accessible through a public resource. Our researchers have read peer reviewed manuscripts indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed to create a curated list of published variants. The curated details are reported as a highly annotated dataset of variants with clinical context and functional details. The feature is intended to aid researchers in the identification of the mechanism of action of pathogenic variants, and is not for clinical use.
Manual Curation Workflow
Rare Disease Information
X-linked Creatine Deficiency
X-linked creatine deficiency is a rare disease whose symptoms include mental disability. It can be caused by variants in the SLC6A8 gene that impair creatine transport.
SLC6A8
To curate information about SLC6A8, the curator collected 216 published peer reviewed manuscripts including reports of individual X-Linked Creatine Deficiency patients, modeling of protein folding topology and the impact of genetic variants on signaling pathways, and reviews, dating from 1975 to 2019.
Additional Information
Farber's Disease
Farber's disease and Spinal muscular atrophy-progressive myoclonic epilepsy are rare diseases that can be caused by variants in the ASAH1 gene that impair acid ceramidase enzyme activity.
ASAH1
To curate information about ASAH1, the curator collected 563 published peer reviewed manuscripts including reports of individual Farber and SMA-PME patients, modeling of protein folding topology and the impact of genetic variants on signaling pathways, and reviews, dating from 1952 to 2019.