The OPA1 gene homepage
A database from the MITOchondrial DYNamics variation portal.
This database is also one of the "Eye disease" gene variant databases.
General information |
Gene symbol |
OPA1 |
Gene name |
optic atrophy 1 (autosomal dominant) |
Chromosome |
3 |
Chromosomal band |
q28-q29 |
Imprinted |
Not imprinted |
Genomic reference |
LRG_337 |
Transcript reference |
NM_015560.2, NM_130837.2 |
Exon/intron information |
NM_015560.2 exon/intron table, NM_130837.2 exon/intron table |
Associated with diseases |
BEHRS, MTDPS-14, OPA, OPA+, OPA-1, glaucoma, normal tension, susceptibility to |
Citation reference(s) |
PubMed: Ferre, Hum Mutat (2005), PubMed: Ferre, Hum Mutat (2015), PubMed: Le Roux, Orphanet J Rare Dis (2019) |
Refseq URL |
Genomic reference sequence |
Curators (1) |
Marc Ferre |
Total number of public variants reported |
871 |
Unique public DNA variants reported |
573 |
Individuals with public variants |
1213 |
Hidden variants |
4 |
Download all this gene's data |
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Notes |
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (DOA, Kjer type, MIM#165500) is characterized by moderate to severe loss of visual acuity with insidious onset in early childhood, blue-yellow dyschromatopsia and central scotoma. Mutations in the optic atrophy 1 gene (OPA1; MIM#605290) are responsible for about 60-80% of the cases of DOA. The spectrum of OPA1-related disorders is highly variable. The age of onset varies from birth to over 60 years, and the severity of the visual loss ranges from subclinical loss to severe blindness. Estimated disease prevalence is between 1:10,000 in Denmark due to a founder effect and 1:35,000 worldwide. Extra ocular features, involving the central, peripheral and autonomous nervous systems, complicating the optic neuropathy are reported in about 20% of the patients carrying OPA1 pathogenic variants, leading to conditions described as the "DOA plus" or "DOA+" syndromes (MIM#125250). A phenotype fully compatible with the Behr syndrome (MIM#210000), associating early onset and severe optic neuropathy with spinocerebellar ataxia and retarded development was also reported. This variety of phenotypes is attributed to differences in the OPA1 mutations effects (haplo-insufficiency or dominant negative effect), as well as to the mode of inheritance, which may be mono- or more rarely bi-allelic.
A database from the MITOchondrial DYNamics variation portal. This database is one of the "Eye disease" gene variant databases. Establishment of this gene variant database (LSDB) was supported by the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, Nederland. |
Date created |
November 13, 2003 |
Date last updated |
January 16, 2021 |
Version |
OPA1:210116 |
Active transcripts
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