GENE REFERENCE / HGNC:25812

SRD5A3

steroid 5 alpha-reductase 3

protein-coding gene4q12Gene information

What does this gene do?

The SRD5A3 gene provides instructions for making an enzyme called steroid 5-alpha reductase 3. This enzyme performs a chemical reaction that converts a compound called polyprenol into another compound called dolichol. Subsequently, another enzyme converts dolichol to dolichol phosphate. The production of dolichol phosphate is critical for a process called glycosylation, by which small chains of sugar molecules (oligosaccharides) are attached to proteins. Glycosylation changes proteins in ways that are important for their functions.

Dolichol phosphate is integral for the formation of the sugar chains that are attached to proteins during glycosylation. Individual sugars are added to dolichol phosphate to build the oligosaccharide chain. Once the chain is formed, it is transferred from dolichol phosphate to a specific site on the protein that needs to be glycosylated.

Source: MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine. Source publication: 2021-09-24. Source review: 2021-09.

ClinGen reviews

ClinGen reviews the evidence linking a particular gene to a condition. Each rating below describes the strength of that link. It does not classify a variant in your DNA file.

Condition	Inheritance	Evidence
SRD5A3-congenital disorder of glycosylationMONDO:0012885 · Evaluated 2024-01-17	Autosomal recessive	DefinitiveCongenital Disorders of Glycosylation Gene Curation Expert Panel

ClinVar records

These numbers show what has been submitted to ClinVar. They cannot tell you how likely you are to have a condition.

Submitted alleles: 291
Submissions for variants in or overlapping this gene: 465
Submissions explicitly reporting this gene: 426
Alleles reported pathogenic / likely pathogenic: 25
VariationIDs with uncertain significance: 131
VariationIDs with conflicting classifications: 14

The rows count different things: alleles, submissions or VariationIDs. Their categories can overlap, so do not add them together. Pathogenic/likely pathogenic counts exclude structural variants that merely overlap a gene. A dash in the source means “not reported,” not zero.

NCBI produces the gene-summary file each week using counts recorded at the start of the month. The numbers may differ from those on the live ClinVar website. Read the field definitions ↗

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YOUR DNA FILE

Can your DNA file tell you about SRD5A3?

From a DNA test kit (such as 23andMe, AncestryDNA or MyHeritage). These kits check a fixed list of about 600,000 to 700,000 positions across your whole genome. ClinVar lists 25 alleles in SRD5A3 reported as pathogenic or likely pathogenic. A kit checks only some of these positions, and often none of them.

From whole genome sequencing (a VCF file). Sequencing reads most of your genome. Your file lists the places where your DNA differs from the reference genome. Some regions are hard to sequence, including parts of some genes that have near-identical copies elsewhere, and a VCF file does not record which positions were read well.

If a variant is not in your file, that does not mean you don’t have it.

What BioDecode checks

BioDecode compares every variant in your file with ClinVar, on your own computer. For each match, it shows the ClinVar classification, the review status and the condition it was reported for. Your file is not uploaded.

A ClinVar classification applies to one particular variant and the condition it was reported for. It does not tell you about other variants in SRD5A3.

BioDecode cannot fill gaps in your test, diagnose a condition or replace clinical testing.

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