VEZF1

Chr 17AD

vascular endothelial zinc finger 1

Also known as: CMD1OO, DB1, ZNF161

NCBI Gene: 7716 ENSG00000136451 UniProt: Q14119

Transcriptional regulatory proteins containing tandemly repeated zinc finger domains are thought to be involved in both normal and abnormal cellular proliferation and differentiation. ZNF161 is a C2H2-type zinc finger protein (Koyano-Nakagawa et al., 1994 [PubMed 8035792]). See MIM 603971 for general information on zinc finger proteins.[supplied by OMIM, Sep 2008]

Primary Disease Associations & Inheritance

?Cardiomyopathy, dilated, 1OOMIM #620247

Active trials

Pathogenic / LP

ClinVar variants

Pubs (1 yr)

2.9

Missense Z

0.24

LOEUF· LoF intolerant

Clinical Summary— VEZF1

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Gene-Disease Validity (ClinGen)

cardiomyopathy, dilated, 100 · ADNo Known Disease Relationship

No known disease relationship

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Population Constraint (gnomAD)

Highly constrained gene — heterozygous loss-of-function variants are very rare in the population (pLI 0.99). One damaged copy is likely sufficient to cause disease.

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Population Genetics & Constraint

gnomAD v4 — loss-of-function & missense intolerance

gnomAD

LoF intolerant — likely haploinsufficient

LoF Constraint?LOEUF (Loss-of-function Observed/Expected Upper bound Fraction) is the upper bound of the 90% CI for LoF OE — the preferred gnomAD v4 metric. Lower = more intolerant to LoF. LOEUF < 0.35 = highly constrained.

0.24LOEUF

pLI 0.994

Z-score 3.91

OE 0.05 (0.02–0.24)

Highly constrained

Highly LoF-intolerant (top ~10% of genes)

Missense Constraint?Missense Z-score: standard deviations fewer missense variants observed vs. expected. Z > 3.09 (p < 0.001) = gene does not tolerate missense variation. OE missense < 0.6 is also considered constrained.

2.92Z-score

OE missense 0.52 (0.45–0.59)

148 obs / 287.3 exp

Mild constraint

Moderately missense-constrained (top ~2.5%)

Observed / Expected Ratios?Shaded band = 90% confidence interval. Vertical tick = point estimate. Grey threshold line = gnomAD constraint cutoff for that variant class.

LoF OE?Ratio of observed to expected LoF variants. Upper CI bound (LOEUF) ≤ 0.35 = strong LoF constraint signal.0.05 (0.02–0.24)

0≤0.351.4

Missense OE?Ratio of observed to expected missense variants. OE ≤ 0.6 = fewer missense variants than expected by chance.0.52 (0.45–0.59)

0≤0.61.4

Synonymous OE?Control metric — synonymous variants are largely neutral and expected near OE = 1.0. Significant deviation may indicate annotation issues.1.17

0≤1.21.6

LoF obs/exp: 1 / 19.7Missense obs/exp: 148 / 287.3Syn Z: -1.38

0.3892th %ile

GOF

0.4085th %ile

LOF

0.82top 5%

The highest-scoring mechanism for this gene is loss-of-function (haploinsufficiency).

LOFprediction above median · LOEUF 0.24

Predictions from Badonyi M, Marsh JA. PLoS ONE. 2024;19(8):e0307312. Mechanism ranking also informed by gnomAD constraint, ClinVar, and ClinGen data.