Gene Expression: LDLR

Gene Data

  • Gene Symbol: LDLR
  • Gene ID: 3949
  • Synonyms: FH, FHC, LDLCQ2
  • Description: low density lipoprotein receptor
  • Database Refs: HGNC:6547, MIM:606945, Ensembl:ENSG00000130164, HPRD:06091, Vega:OTTHUMG00000171935
  • Links: Allen Brain Atlas,NCBI, GeneCards
Splicing Dynamics: DEXseq identifies changes in 1 out of 25 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 58 diseases, scroll to view all:
  1. Alzheimer's disease
  2. Amyloidosis
  3. Aortic atherosclerosis
  4. Aortic disease
  5. Arcus senilis
  6. Arterial occlusive disease
  7. Arteriopathy
  8. Arteriosclerosis
  9. Arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease
  10. Atherosclerosis
  11. Brain disease
  12. Cancer
  13. Carbohydrate metabolism disease
  14. Cardiovascular system disease
  15. Central nervous system disease
  16. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
  17. Cerebrovascular accident
  18. Cerebrovascular disease
  19. Cognitive disease
  20. Corneal degeneration
  21. Coronary heart disease
  22. Coronary stenosis
  23. Dementia
  24. Diabetes mellitus
  25. Disease
  26. Disease of anatomical entity
  27. Disease of cellular proliferation
  28. Disease of mental health
  29. Disease of metabolism
  30. Endocrine pancreas disease
  31. Endocrine system disease
  32. Extrinsic cardiomyopathy
  33. Familial combined hyperlipidemia
  34. Familial hypercholesterolemia
  35. Familial hyperlipidemia
  36. Familial hyperlipoproteinemia
  37. Fatty liver
  38. Gastrointestinal system disease
  39. Glucose metabolism disease
  40. Heart disease
  41. Hypercholesterolemia
  42. Hypertension
  43. Hypolipoproteinemia
  44. Inborn errors lipid metabolism
  45. Ischemia
  46. Lipid metabolism disease
  47. Liver cancer
  48. Myocardial infarction
  49. Myocardial ischemia
  50. Nervous system disease
  51. Neurodegenerative disease
  52. Organ system cancer
  53. Pancreas disease
  54. Scleral disease
  55. Skin lipoma
  56. Tauopathy
  57. Vascular disease
  58. Xanthomatosis

Stage Associations

This gene is associated with the following stages: