Gene Expression: MITF

Gene Data

  • Gene Symbol: MITF
  • Gene ID: 4286
  • Synonyms: CMM8, MI, WS2, WS2A, bHLHe32
  • Description: microphthalmia-associated transcription factor
  • Database Refs: HGNC:7105, MIM:156845, Ensembl:ENSG00000187098, HPRD:01138, Vega:OTTHUMG00000149921
  • Links: Allen Brain Atlas,NCBI, GeneCards
Splicing Dynamics: DEXseq identifies changes in 2 out of 18 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 55 diseases, scroll to view all:
  1. Alveolar soft part sarcoma
  2. Angiomyolipoma
  3. Auditory system disease
  4. Bone remodeling disease
  5. Cancer
  6. Cell type cancer
  7. Childhood kidney cell carcinoma
  8. Clear cell sarcoma
  9. Complex genetic disease
  10. Connective tissue neoplasm
  11. Cutaneous ganglioneuroma
  12. Desmoplastic melanoma
  13. Disease
  14. Disease of anatomical entity
  15. Disease of cellular proliferation
  16. Epithelioid cell melanoma
  17. Eye and adnexa disease
  18. Eye disease
  19. Fibrous histiocytoma
  20. Gallbladder melanoma
  21. Genetic disease
  22. Globe disease
  23. Inner ear disease
  24. Kidney cancer
  25. Lipomatous neoplasm
  26. Malignant spindle cell melanoma
  27. Megacolon
  28. Melanoma
  29. Mesenchymal cell neoplasm
  30. Microphthalmia
  31. Monogenic disease
  32. Nervous system disease
  33. Ocular albinism
  34. Oculocutaneous albinism
  35. Organ system cancer
  36. Osteopetrosis
  37. Osteosclerosis
  38. Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor
  39. Perivascular tumor
  40. Piebaldism
  41. Pigmented basal cell carcinoma
  42. Posterior uveal melanoma
  43. Renal carcinoma
  44. Renal cell carcinoma
  45. Sarcoma
  46. Sensorineural hearing loss
  47. Sensory system disease
  48. Skin cancer
  49. Skin melanoma
  50. Soft tissue cancer
  51. Urinary tract cancer
  52. Uterine Inversion
  53. Vitelliform macular dystrophy
  54. Vitiligo
  55. Waardenburg's syndrome

Stage Associations

This gene is associated with the following stages: