Incidental Mutation 'R8831:Gfra2'
ID 673860
Institutional Source Beutler Lab
Gene Symbol Gfra2
Ensembl Gene ENSMUSG00000022103
Gene Name glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha 2
Synonyms GFR alpha 2, GFR alpha-2
MMRRC Submission 068659-MU
Accession Numbers
Essential gene? Probably non essential (E-score: 0.250) question?
Stock # R8831 (G1)
Quality Score 225.009
Status Validated
Chromosome 14
Chromosomal Location 71127560-71217278 bp(+) (GRCm39)
Type of Mutation missense
DNA Base Change (assembly) A to T at 71204503 bp (GRCm39)
Zygosity Heterozygous
Amino Acid Change Asparagine to Isoleucine at position 324 (N324I)
Ref Sequence ENSEMBL: ENSMUSP00000022699 (fasta)
Gene Model predicted gene model for transcript(s): [ENSMUST00000022699] [ENSMUST00000227633] [ENSMUST00000227697]
AlphaFold O08842
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000022699
AA Change: N324I

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.016 (Sensitivity: 0.95; Specificity: 0.79)
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000022699
Gene: ENSMUSG00000022103
AA Change: N324I

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
signal peptide 1 21 N/A INTRINSIC
GDNF 40 117 1.76e-15 SMART
GDNF 161 241 3.7e-23 SMART
GDNF 251 347 1.74e-28 SMART
low complexity region 381 397 N/A INTRINSIC
Predicted Effect probably damaging
Transcript: ENSMUST00000227633
AA Change: N67I

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.971 (Sensitivity: 0.77; Specificity: 0.96)
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000227697
AA Change: N191I

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.171 (Sensitivity: 0.92; Specificity: 0.87)
Meta Mutation Damage Score 0.0846 question?
Coding Region Coverage
  • 1x: 100.0%
  • 3x: 99.9%
  • 10x: 99.6%
  • 20x: 98.9%
Validation Efficiency 99% (81/82)
MGI Phenotype FUNCTION: The protein encoded by this gene is part of the receptor complex that transduces glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor and neurturin signals by mediating autophosphorylation and activation of the RET receptor. Mice lacking this protein are viable and fertile but display growth retardation attributed to impaired salivary and pancreatic secretion and innervation deficits in the intestinal tract. In addition, knockout mice display neural defects including a failure to initiate outgrowth of dorsal ganglion root neurons, demonstrating a requirement in neuronal differentiation of these cells. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2014]
PHENOTYPE: Homozygous mutants have dry eyes, poor postweaning growth associated with impaired parasympathetic cholinergic innervation of lacrimal and salivary glands and of small intestine, reduced skin thickness and accelerated hair follicle regression. [provided by MGI curators]
Allele List at MGI
Other mutations in this stock
Total: 86 list
GeneRefVarChr/LocMutationPredicted EffectZygosity
A230072I06Rik A T 8: 12,329,688 (GRCm39) I48L unknown Het
Abcc3 A C 11: 94,241,787 (GRCm39) C1415G probably damaging Het
Abcf3 C T 16: 20,369,214 (GRCm39) R205C probably damaging Het
Abcg5 G T 17: 84,976,423 (GRCm39) H471Q probably damaging Het
Actl6b G A 5: 137,565,305 (GRCm39) R363Q probably damaging Het
Adcy1 T A 11: 7,111,362 (GRCm39) D884E probably benign Het
Aldh3a1 A G 11: 61,107,142 (GRCm39) Y282C probably damaging Het
Amdhd2 A G 17: 24,376,712 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Arfgef3 A G 10: 18,528,491 (GRCm39) S299P possibly damaging Het
Asic2 A T 11: 81,858,726 (GRCm39) N95K probably damaging Het
Atp2c2 A G 8: 120,476,033 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Atrn T C 2: 130,748,521 (GRCm39) L14P probably benign Het
C8b A G 4: 104,647,874 (GRCm39) Y355C probably damaging Het
Carm1 A G 9: 21,491,663 (GRCm39) E244G probably damaging Het
Cd300c2 A T 11: 114,891,844 (GRCm39) C39* probably null Het
Cish T A 9: 107,177,671 (GRCm39) F116I probably damaging Het
Clstn1 G A 4: 149,730,780 (GRCm39) R837Q probably benign Het
Cox10 A G 11: 63,855,306 (GRCm39) F325S probably damaging Het
Cplane1 T C 15: 8,211,620 (GRCm39) I320T probably benign Het
Ctps1 A T 4: 120,424,507 (GRCm39) S36T possibly damaging Het
Dchs2 T C 3: 83,192,670 (GRCm39) L1705P probably benign Het
Defb25 C A 2: 152,464,899 (GRCm39) V17L probably benign Het
Dhx16 A G 17: 36,199,000 (GRCm39) D782G probably damaging Het
Dhx30 A G 9: 109,917,319 (GRCm39) S399P probably benign Het
Dhx58 T A 11: 100,594,806 (GRCm39) K30M probably damaging Het
Drc7 G A 8: 95,788,845 (GRCm39) R301Q probably damaging Het
Dsg1a T C 18: 20,453,365 (GRCm39) V21A probably damaging Het
Ercc6 T A 14: 32,282,784 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Fam193a A G 5: 34,616,374 (GRCm39) T850A probably benign Het
Fgf10 A G 13: 118,925,671 (GRCm39) D150G probably damaging Het
Flii A T 11: 60,616,074 (GRCm39) N28K probably benign Het
Gfi1 G A 5: 107,868,138 (GRCm39) R377C probably damaging Het
Gm10308 A G 17: 91,396,431 (GRCm39) R118G unknown Het
Gm10801 T A 2: 98,494,334 (GRCm39) V137E probably damaging Het
Hmmr G A 11: 40,612,499 (GRCm39) S206F probably damaging Het
Hsd3b9 A T 3: 98,354,047 (GRCm39) W151R probably benign Het
Ift80 G A 3: 68,869,583 (GRCm39) A236V probably damaging Het
Il1rn A T 2: 24,239,505 (GRCm39) T134S possibly damaging Het
Il6st G T 13: 112,640,914 (GRCm39) D897Y probably damaging Het
Imp4 T C 1: 34,483,445 (GRCm39) M257T probably benign Het
Impdh2 T C 9: 108,441,957 (GRCm39) L377S probably damaging Het
Kdm1b C A 13: 47,217,617 (GRCm39) L359I possibly damaging Het
Kidins220 A T 12: 25,086,454 (GRCm39) I963L possibly damaging Het
Mdm4 T C 1: 132,931,601 (GRCm39) R148G probably benign Het
Myl10 G C 5: 136,726,825 (GRCm39) V70L probably benign Het
Ncor1 A T 11: 62,260,234 (GRCm39) D505E probably benign Het
Necab3 A T 2: 154,396,607 (GRCm39) L107Q probably damaging Het
Nkx2-4 G A 2: 146,927,114 (GRCm39) P51L probably benign Het
Nol11 T C 11: 107,067,662 (GRCm39) T388A probably benign Het
Npc1 T A 18: 12,333,877 (GRCm39) M735L probably benign Het
Nr1h3 C A 2: 91,021,091 (GRCm39) R232L probably benign Het
Nrcam T A 12: 44,591,680 (GRCm39) probably null Het
Or1j13 G A 2: 36,369,794 (GRCm39) T116I possibly damaging Het
Or52s1b T A 7: 102,822,203 (GRCm39) I214L probably benign Het
Pabpn1 T C 14: 55,131,914 (GRCm39) V101A probably damaging Het
Pcare A T 17: 72,059,305 (GRCm39) V124E probably benign Het
Pcbp2 A G 15: 102,394,453 (GRCm39) D217G probably benign Het
Pcdhb12 A G 18: 37,570,386 (GRCm39) M511V probably benign Het
Phf3 T A 1: 30,860,347 (GRCm39) K828* probably null Het
Plcg1 G C 2: 160,589,732 (GRCm39) K85N probably benign Het
Prag1 A T 8: 36,613,891 (GRCm39) T1148S probably benign Het
Prmt3 A G 7: 49,478,729 (GRCm39) E430G probably null Het
Prx G T 7: 27,217,538 (GRCm39) V819F probably damaging Het
Ptpn18 A T 1: 34,511,271 (GRCm39) R338W probably null Het
Rab6a T C 7: 100,283,931 (GRCm39) Y128H probably benign Het
Rgs2 T C 1: 143,877,497 (GRCm39) Y186C probably damaging Het
Rhbdl1 C T 17: 26,053,857 (GRCm39) V342M probably damaging Het
Rpn1 A G 6: 88,061,775 (GRCm39) Q88R probably benign Het
Slc19a2 C T 1: 164,084,443 (GRCm39) T111M probably damaging Het
Slc35e4 G A 11: 3,863,087 (GRCm39) P34L possibly damaging Het
Slc7a6os A T 8: 106,937,189 (GRCm39) D90E probably benign Het
Ssh3 A G 19: 4,319,053 (GRCm39) V19A possibly damaging Het
Susd1 C T 4: 59,379,594 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Tcf19 A T 17: 35,825,794 (GRCm39) M121K possibly damaging Het
Tcp11 G A 17: 28,299,193 (GRCm39) R21C probably damaging Het
Tcp11l2 A G 10: 84,449,522 (GRCm39) I496V probably damaging Het
Tenm3 C T 8: 48,729,417 (GRCm39) A1530T Het
Tmem127 T A 2: 127,098,979 (GRCm39) V171D probably damaging Het
Tyrp1 G A 4: 80,753,399 (GRCm39) C30Y probably damaging Het
Usp48 A T 4: 137,341,080 (GRCm39) D360V probably damaging Het
Vamp4 T A 1: 162,401,952 (GRCm39) D11E possibly damaging Het
Vmn1r14 T C 6: 57,210,505 (GRCm39) F28L probably benign Het
Vmn2r69 G T 7: 85,059,018 (GRCm39) C514* probably null Het
Vmn2r84 G A 10: 130,226,968 (GRCm39) A290V probably benign Het
Zfp1007 A T 5: 109,824,174 (GRCm39) S425R probably benign Het
Zhx3 T A 2: 160,622,691 (GRCm39) Y492F probably benign Het
Other mutations in Gfra2
AlleleSourceChrCoordTypePredicted EffectPPH Score
IGL00424:Gfra2 APN 14 71,205,679 (GRCm39) splice site probably benign
IGL01303:Gfra2 APN 14 71,133,292 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.09
IGL01380:Gfra2 APN 14 71,204,586 (GRCm39) splice site probably benign
IGL01528:Gfra2 APN 14 71,203,738 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.95
IGL02203:Gfra2 APN 14 71,204,524 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.69
IGL02270:Gfra2 APN 14 71,163,347 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.78
IGL03104:Gfra2 APN 14 71,205,725 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
IGL03270:Gfra2 APN 14 71,163,344 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.80
H8562:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,215,818 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.94
H8786:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,215,818 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.94
R0423:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,133,521 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4120:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,203,715 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4172:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,133,521 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.80
R4712:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,163,377 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4804:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,163,361 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.76
R4902:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,204,455 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R5424:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,133,287 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R6711:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,203,715 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R7290:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,163,380 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R7322:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,205,831 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R7814:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,133,410 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R8159:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,133,397 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.98
R8557:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,214,737 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.05
R8833:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,163,337 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R9072:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,138,935 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.69
R9073:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,138,935 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.69
R9444:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,203,751 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.55
Z1177:Gfra2 UTSW 14 71,215,932 (GRCm39) missense not run
Predicted Primers PCR Primer
(F):5'- CCAGAGGTAAATGTGCTCAGAG -3'
(R):5'- AGCCACATAGGTATCACTGGC -3'

Sequencing Primer
(F):5'- AATGTGCTCAGAGTTAGGATTGTAAG -3'
(R):5'- TAGGTATCACTGGCCATCCTAAC -3'
Posted On 2021-07-15