OR9G4

Chr 11

olfactory receptor family 9 subfamily G member 4

Also known as: OR11-216

NCBI Gene: 283189 ENSG00000172457 UniProt: Q8NGQ1

Olfactory receptors interact with odorant molecules in the nose, to initiate a neuronal response that triggers the perception of a smell. The olfactory receptor proteins are members of a large family of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) arising from single coding-exon genes. Olfactory receptors share a 7-transmembrane domain structure with many neurotransmitter and hormone receptors and are responsible for the recognition and G protein-mediated transduction of odorant signals. The olfactory receptor gene family is the largest in the genome. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Research

ResearchGenerating clinical summary…

Active trials

Pubs (1 yr)

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P/LP submissions

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P/LP missense

1.86

LOEUF

Multiple*

Mechanism· predicted

Some data sources returned errors (1)

omim: Error: OMIM fetch failed: 429

Population Genetics & Constraint

gnomAD v4 — loss-of-function & missense intolerance

gnomAD

Tolerant — LoF & missense variants common in population

LoF Constraint?

1.86LOEUF

pLI 0.000

Z-score -0.48

OE 1.20 (0.69–1.86)

Tolerant

Highly tolerant — LoF variants common in population

Missense Constraint?

-1.29Z-score

OE missense 1.28 (1.14–1.43)

219 obs / 171.4 exp

Tolerant

Tolerant to missense variation

Observed / Expected Ratios?

LoF OE?1.20 (0.69–1.86)

0≤0.351.4

Missense OE?1.28 (1.14–1.43)

0≤0.61.4

Synonymous OE?1.30

0≤1.21.6

LoF obs/exp: 8 / 6.7Missense obs/exp: 219 / 171.4Syn Z: -1.96

Background carrier burden — how many people carry a rare variant somewhere in OR9G4?

gnomAD v4 · ~731k individuals · PASS only

Rare means allele frequency under

Rare missense

1 in 120

456 rare PASS variants

Rare truncating (LoF)

1 in 1,600

67 rare PASS variants

Rare synonymous (reference)

1 in 390

198 rare PASS variants

Truncating variants are far rarer here than missense — that gap, in human units, is what constraint means for OR9G4. A background rate for each class, not the frequency of any particular variant; thin-coverage exons undercount.

By genetic ancestry · 9 gnomAD groups · rare = under 0.1% in that group

Group	People	Missense	Truncating
European (non-Finnish)	~556k	1 in 130	1 in 1,400
South Asian	~43k	1 in 110	1 in 3,900
Remaining (unassigned)	~30k	1 in 96	1 in 1,200
European (Finnish)	~27k	1 in 860	≈ 1 in 8,900
Admixed American	~22k	1 in 130	1 in 830
African / African American	~21k	1 in 77	1 in 2,400
East Asian	~20k	1 in 110	1 in 450
Ashkenazi Jewish	~13k	1 in 150	none seen
Middle Eastern	~2,884	1 in 120	≈ 1 in 2,900

Each group is summed over the variants that are rare in that group. Grey ≈ figures rest on fewer than five expected carriers — too few to distinguish groups. Differences mostly reflect how many people were sampled and how much variation each ancestry carries, not disease risk.

Exome coverage (gnomAD): All 1 coding exons well covered in gnomAD exomes and genomes.? see exons ↓