HEXA, hexosaminidase subunit alpha, 3073

N. diseases: 79; N. variants: 124
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The rapid identification of mutations causing Tay-Sachs disease requires the capacity to readily screen the regions of the HEXA gene most likely to be affected by mutation. 1833974 1991
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Tay-Sachs disease in Moroccan Jews: deletion of a phenylalanine in the alpha-subunit of beta-hexosaminidase. 1825014 1991
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here, we have characterized 34 enzymatically confirmed TSD families to investigate the presence of novel as well as known variants in HEXA gene. 31388111 2019
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We performed a HEXA gene sequencing assay, a HEXA DNA common mutation assay, and a HEXA enzyme assay on 34 self-reported Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) carriers, six late-onset patients with TSD, and one pseudodeficiency allele carrier. 19858779 2010
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Different attenuated phenotypes of GM2 gangliosidosis variant B in Japanese patients with HEXA mutations at codon 499, and five novel mutations responsible for infantile acute form. 14566483 2003
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR An A-to-G mutation at the +3 position of intron 8 of the HEXA gene is associated with exon 8 skipping and Tay-Sachs disease. 7551830 1995
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Nearly 100% of infantile Tay-Sachs disease is produced by two mutations occurring in the alpha chain of the lysosomal enzyme beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (HEXA) in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. 10806593 2000
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We describe three HEXA mutations associated with infantile Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) in three unrelated nonconsanguineous Chinese families. 1301190 1992
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The genes responsible for these disorders are HEXA (Tay-Sachs disease and variants), HEXB (Sandhoff disease and variants), and GM2A (AB variant of GM2 gangliosidosis). 11339652 2001
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT A new Tay-Sachs disease B1 allele in exon 7 in two compound heterozygotes each with a second novel mutation. 1302612 1992
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A novel mutation in the HEXA gene specific to Tay-Sachs disease carriers of Jewish Iraqi origin. 10852376 2000
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A child with late-infantile TSD was found to have two HEXA mutations, 986 + 3A-->G (A-->G at the +3 position of intron 8) and 533G-->A, associated with the variant B1 form of TSD. 7551830 1995
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We have now identified two additional mutations within exon 5 of the HEXA gene that account for the remaining TSD alleles in the patient and carriers. 1322637 1992
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pathogenic variants in HEXA that impair β-hexosaminidase A (Hex A) enzyme activity cause Tay-Sachs Disease (TSD), a severe autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disorder. 31293106 2019
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In the last decade, the cloning of the HEXA gene and the identification of more than 80 associated TSD-causing mutations has permitted molecular diagnosis in many instances. 10464605 1998
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We analyzed the HEXA gene of one pseudodeficient subject and identified both a C739-to-T substitution that changes Arg247----Trp on one allele and a previously identified Tay-Sachs disease mutation on the second allele. 1384323 1992
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Ten novel mutations in the HEXA gene in non-Jewish Tay-Sachs patients. 8490625 1993
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In particular, the mutations in the human HEXA gene that cause the infantile Tay-Sachs disease have been studied using MALDI-MS to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique for use in clinical and diagnostic analysis. 9218358 1997
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Structural consequences of amino acid substitutions causing Tay-Sachs disease. 18490185 2008
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR We describe three HEXA mutations associated with infantile Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) in three unrelated nonconsanguineous Chinese families. 1301190 1992
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) is a recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder due to mutations in the HEXA gene resulting in a beta-hexosaminidase A (Hex A) deficiency. 20100466 2010
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Biochemical consequences of mutations causing the GM2 gangliosidoses. 10571007 1999
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR beta-Hexosaminidase isozymes from cells cotransfected with alpha and beta cDNA constructs: analysis of the alpha-subunit missense mutation associated with the adult form of Tay-Sachs disease. 8328462 1993
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT We aimed to determine mutations leading to TSD in India by complete sequencing of the HEXA gene. 22723944 2012
CUI: C0039373
Disease: Tay-Sachs Disease
Tay-Sachs Disease
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Eight novel mutations in the HEXA gene. 12180151 2003