Gene Expression: GFAP

Gene Data

  • Gene Symbol: GFAP
  • Gene ID: 2670
  • Synonyms: -
  • Description: glial fibrillary acidic protein
  • Database Refs: HGNC:4235, MIM:137780, Ensembl:ENSG00000131095, HPRD:00675, Vega:OTTHUMG00000179866
  • Links: Allen Brain Atlas,NCBI, GeneCards
Splicing Dynamics: DEXseq identifies changes in 2 out of 11 exons in this gene. (More about DEXSeq here)

Cluster Associations

This gene is associated with the following clusters:

Disease Associations

This gene is associated with the following diseases. Clicking on the disease will take you to the disease association entry for that disease.

This gene is associated with 312 diseases, scroll to view all:
  1. Adenoid cystic carcinoma
  2. Adenoma
  3. Adult CNS tumor
  4. Adult malignant meningioma
  5. Adult meningioma
  6. Alexander disease
  7. Alzheimer's disease
  8. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  9. Anaplastic astrocytoma
  10. Anaplastic ependymoma
  11. Anaplastic ganglioglioma
  12. Anaplastic meningioma
  13. Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
  14. Anterior horn cell disease
  15. Astroblastoma
  16. Astrocytoma
  17. Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor
  18. Bacterial infectious disease
  19. Basal ganglia disease
  20. Benign miscellaneous mesenchymal tumor
  21. Benign neoplasm
  22. Benign vaginal mixed epithelial and mese
  23. Blindness
  24. Bone cancer
  25. Borderline glaucoma
  26. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  27. Brain cancer
  28. Brain disease
  29. Brain edema
  30. Brain hypoxia-Ischemia
  31. Brain infarction
  32. Brain ischemia
  33. Brain neoplasm
  34. Buphthalmos
  35. Cancer
  36. Carbohydrate metabolism disease
  37. Carcinoma
  38. Cardiovascular system disease
  39. Carotid artery occlusion
  40. Cell type cancer
  41. Cellular ependymoma
  42. Central nervous system cancer
  43. Central nervous system disease
  44. Central nervous system hereditary degene
  45. Central nervous system neoplasm
  46. Central nervous system sarcoma
  47. Central neurocytoma
  48. Cerebellar astrocytoma
  49. Cerebellar liponeurocytoma
  50. Cerebellar neoplasm
  51. Cerebral arterial disease
  52. Cerebral artery occlusion
  53. Cerebral astrocytoma
  54. Cerebral cancer
  55. Cerebral degeneration
  56. Cerebral infarction
  57. Cerebral neuroblastoma
  58. Cerebral ventricle cancer
  59. Cerebral ventricle neoplasm
  60. Cerebrovascular accident
  61. Cerebrovascular disease
  62. Childhood malignant central nervous syst
  63. Chordoid glioma
  64. Chordoid meningioma
  65. Chordoma
  66. Choroid plexus cancer
  67. Choroid plexus carcinoma
  68. Choroid plexus papilloma
  69. Clear cell ependymoma
  70. Clear cell meningioma
  71. Cognitive disease
  72. Communicating hydrocephalus
  73. Connective tissue neoplasm
  74. Cranial nerve disease
  75. Cranial nerve neoplasm
  76. Cutaneous ganglioneuroma
  77. Degeneration of macula and posterior pol
  78. Dementia
  79. Demyelinating disease
  80. Desmoplastic medulloblastoma
  81. Developmental disease of mental health
  82. Diabetes mellitus
  83. Diabetic retinopathy
  84. Diffuse astrocytoma
  85. Disease
  86. Disease by infectious agent
  87. Disease of anatomical entity
  88. Disease of cellular proliferation
  89. Disease of mental health
  90. Disease of metabolism
  91. Down syndrome
  92. Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor
  93. Embryonal cancer
  94. Embryonal cancer of CNS
  95. Encephalitis
  96. Encephalomalacia
  97. Encephalomyelitis
  98. Endocrine pancreas disease
  99. Endocrine system disease
  100. Ependymal tumors
  101. Ependymoblastoma
  102. Ependymoma
  103. Epilepsy
  104. Exophthalmos
  105. Extracranial neuroblastoma
  106. Extraosseous chondrosarcoma
  107. Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma
  108. Eye and adnexa disease
  109. Eye disease
  110. Fetal alcohol syndrome
  111. Fibrillary astrocytoma
  112. Gangliocytoma
  113. Ganglioglioma
  114. Gastrointestinal system disease
  115. Gemistocytic astrocytoma
  116. Genetic disease
  117. Germ cell and embryonal cancer
  118. Germ cell cancer
  119. Giant cell glioblastoma
  120. Giant cell tumor
  121. Glaucoma
  122. Glioblastoma
  123. Gliofibroma
  124. Glioma
  125. Gliomatosis cerebri
  126. Gliosarcoma
  127. Globe disease
  128. Glossopharyngeal nerve disease
  129. Glucose metabolism disease
  130. Granular cell tumor
  131. Hemangioblastoma
  132. Hemangioma
  133. Hemangiopericytoma
  134. Hepatic encephalopathy
  135. Histiocytoma
  136. Huntington's disease
  137. Hydrocephalus
  138. Hydrophthalmos
  139. Inflammatory MFH
  140. Infratentorial neoplasm
  141. Intracranial arterial disease
  142. Intracranial arteriosclerosis
  143. Intracranial hypertension
  144. Intracranial neoplasm
  145. Intracranial primitive neuroectodermal t
  146. Intractable epilepsy
  147. Ischemia
  148. Juvenile astrocytoma
  149. Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma
  150. Leiomyosarcoma
  151. Leukodystrophy
  152. Lewy body dementia
  153. Macular holes
  154. Malignant cranial nerve neoplasm
  155. Malignant fibroxanthoma
  156. Malignant giant cell tumor
  157. Malignant glioma
  158. Malignant intracranial neoplasm
  159. Malignant mixed cancer
  160. Malignant neoplasm of meninges
  161. Malignant olfactory nerve tumor
  162. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
  163. Malignant perivascular cancer
  164. Malignant teratoma
  165. Medical disorder
  166. Medulloblastoma
  167. Medulloepithelioma
  168. Medullomyoblastoma
  169. Melanoma
  170. Melanotic medulloblastoma
  171. Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor
  172. Meningeal neoplasm
  173. Meningioma
  174. Meningitis
  175. Meningothelial meningioma
  176. Mesenchymal cell neoplasm
  177. Miscellaneous mesenchymal neoplasm
  178. Mixed cell type cancer
  179. Mixed germ cell cancer
  180. Mixed gliomas
  181. Mixed salivary gland tumor
  182. Monogenic disease
  183. Motor neuron disease
  184. Movement disease
  185. Multiple sclerosis
  186. Multiple system atrophy
  187. Muscle cancer
  188. Muscle tissue disease
  189. Muscular disease
  190. Musculoskeletal system disease
  191. Myelitis
  192. Myoepithelial carcinoma
  193. Myoepithelioma
  194. Myopathy
  195. Myxoid chondrosarcoma
  196. Myxopapillary ependymoma
  197. Neoplasm of autonomic nervous system
  198. Neoplasm of cerebrum
  199. Neoplasm of olfactory nerve
  200. Nerve sheath tumors
  201. Nervous system cancer
  202. Nervous system disease
  203. Neurilemmoma
  204. Neuroblastoma
  205. Neurodegenerative disease
  206. Neuroectodermal tumor
  207. Neuroendocrine tumor
  208. Neurofibroma
  209. Neurofibromatosis
  210. Neuroma
  211. Neuromuscular disease
  212. Neuromyelitis optica
  213. Neuropathy
  214. Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  215. Notochordal cancer
  216. Obstructive hydrocephalus
  217. Occlusion precerebral artery
  218. Ocular cancer
  219. Ocular hypertension
  220. Olfactory nerve disease
  221. Olfactory neuroblastoma
  222. Oligodendroglial neoplasm
  223. Oligodendroglioma
  224. Optic nerve disease
  225. Optic neuritis
  226. Orbital cyst
  227. Organ system cancer
  228. Ossifying fibromyxoid tumor
  229. Pancreas disease
  230. Papillary ependymoma
  231. Papilledema
  232. Papilloma
  233. Parkinson's disease
  234. Partial epilepsy
  235. Pediatric central nervous system tumor
  236. Peripheral nerve sheath neoplasm
  237. Peripheral nervous system neoplasm
  238. Perivascular tumor
  239. Periventricular leukomalacia
  240. Physical disorder
  241. Pick's disease
  242. Pilocytic astrocytoma
  243. Pineal gland cancer
  244. Pineal gland neoplasm
  245. Pineoblastoma
  246. Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
  247. Preretinal fibrosis
  248. Primary bacterial infectious disease
  249. Primitive neuroectodermal tumor
  250. Prion disease
  251. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopat
  252. Progressive supranuclear palsy
  253. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
  254. Proliferative vitreoretinopathy
  255. Protoplasmic astrocytoma
  256. Pseudobulbar palsy
  257. Psychotic disease
  258. Retinal cancer
  259. Retinal cell cancer
  260. Retinal degeneration
  261. Retinal detachment
  262. Retinal disease
  263. Retinal ischemia
  264. Retinal perforation
  265. Retinal vascular disease
  266. Retinoblastoma
  267. Retinopathy of prematurity
  268. Rhabdoid meningioma
  269. Rhabdomyosarcoma
  270. Sarcoma
  271. Sarcoma of the meninges
  272. Schizophrenia
  273. Scrapie
  274. Sensory system disease
  275. Skeletal muscle cancer
  276. Skin neoplasm
  277. Smooth muscle cancer
  278. Soft tissue cancer
  279. Soft tissue neoplasm
  280. Specific developmental disease
  281. Spinal cancer
  282. Spinal cord astrocytoma
  283. Spinal cord disease
  284. Spinal cord glial tumor
  285. Spinal cord neoplasm
  286. Striatonigral degeneration
  287. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
  288. Subependymal glioma
  289. Sudden infant death syndrome
  290. Supratentorial cancer
  291. Supratentorial neoplasm
  292. Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal
  293. Sweat gland neoplasm
  294. Syringoma
  295. Tanycytic ependymoma
  296. Tauopathy
  297. Teratocarcinoma
  298. Teratoma
  299. Tetanus
  300. Toxic encephalopathy
  301. Transient cerebral ischemia
  302. Tuberous sclerosis
  303. Tumor of meningothelial cell
  304. Vaginal mixed epithelial and mesenchymal
  305. Vaginal spindle cell epithelioma
  306. Vascular dementia
  307. Vascular disease
  308. Vascular tissue disease
  309. Viral infectious disease
  310. Visual pathway disease
  311. Vitreous detachment
  312. Vitreous disease

Stage Associations

This gene is associated with the following stages: