The VHL gene homepage

This database is one of the "Paraganglioma and pheochromocytoma" gene variant databases.
General information
Gene symbol VHL
Gene name von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase
Chromosome 3
Chromosomal band p25.3
Imprinted Unknown
Genomic reference NG_008212.3
Transcript reference NM_000551.3
Exon/intron information NM_000551.3 exon/intron table
Associated with diseases ECYT2, pheochromocytoma, RCC, VHLS
Citation reference(s) -
Refseq URL Genomic reference sequence
Curators (1) Lucie Evenepoel
Total number of public variants reported 185
Unique public DNA variants reported 124
Individuals with public variants 86
Hidden variants 7
Download all this gene's data Download all data
Notes This database is one of the "Paraganglioma and pheochromocytoma" gene variant databases, curated by the Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, de Duve Institute, Brussels (Belgium).
Establishment of the database was supported by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No 200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.
Date created April 29, 2010
Date last updated February 26, 2024
Version VHL:240226

Graphical displays and utilities
Graphs Graphs displaying summary information of all variants in the database »
Reading frame checker The Reading-frame checker generates a prediction of the effect of whole-exon changes. Active for: NM_000551.3.
UCSC Genome Browser Show variants in the UCSC Genome Browser (full view, compact view)
Ensembl Genome Browser Show variants in the Ensembl Genome Browser (full view, compact view)
NCBI Sequence Viewer Show distribution histogram of variants in the NCBI Sequence Viewer

Links to other resources
Homepage URL http://www.LOVD.nl/VHL
HGNC 12687
Entrez Gene 7428
PubMed articles VHL
OMIM - Gene 608537
OMIM - Diseases ECYT2 (erythrocytosis, familial, type 2 (ECYT-2))
pheochromocytoma (pheochromocytoma (susceptibility to))
RCC (carcinoma, renal cell, nonpapillary (RCC))
VHLS (Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome)
HGMD VHL
GeneCards VHL
GeneTests VHL
Orphanet VHL


Active transcripts


ID     

Chr     

Name     

NCBI ID     

NCBI Protein ID     

DescendingVariants     
00022600 3 von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor, transcript variant 1 NM_000551.3 NP_000542.1 185


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