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General information
Gene symbol ABCA4
Gene name ATP-binding cassette, sub-family A (ABC1), member 4
Chromosome 1
Chromosomal band p22
Imprinted Unknown
Genomic reference NG_009073.2
Transcript reference NM_000350.2
Exon/intron information NM_000350.2 exon/intron table
Associated with diseases ARMD, ARMD2, CORD3, RP19, STGD1
Citation reference(s) PubMed: Cornelis 2017, Journal: Cornelis 2017
Refseq URL Genomic reference sequence
Curators (1) Stéphanie Cornelis
Total number of public variants reported 33774
Unique public DNA variants reported 2768
Individuals with public variants 20921
Hidden variants 88
Download all this gene's data Download all data
Notes This database is one of the "Eye disease" gene variant databases, currently supported by the



We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Frans Cremers in initiating the ABCA4 gene variant database, and his work as curator from the start to 2023.
The work leading to the establishment of this 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 ABCA4:240226

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_000350.2.
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 https://www.LOVD.nl/ABCA4
HGNC 34
Entrez Gene 24
PubMed articles ABCA4
OMIM - Gene 601691
OMIM - Diseases ARMD2 (macular degeneration, age-related, type 2 (ARMD-2))
CORD3 (dystrophy, cone rod, type 3 (CORD-3))
RP19 (retinitis pigmentosa, type 19 (RP19))
STGD1 (Stargardt disease, type 1 (STGD1))
HGMD ABCA4
GeneCards ABCA4
GeneTests ABCA4
Orphanet ABCA4


Active transcripts


ID     

Chr     

Name     

NCBI ID     

NCBI Protein ID     

DescendingVariants     
00001847 1 ATP-binding cassette, sub-family A (ABC1), member 4 NM_000350.2 NP_000341.2 33774


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