PDGFRA Gene Complete Identifier and Functional Mapping Reference

Provide a comprehensive cross-database identifier and functional mapping reference for human PDGFRA. This should serve as a definitive lookup resource …

Provide a comprehensive cross-database identifier and functional mapping reference for human PDGFRA. This should serve as a definitive lookup resource for researchers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 1: GENE IDENTIFIERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Provide ALL gene-level database identifiers: - HGNC ID and approved symbol - Ensembl gene ID (ENSG) - NCBI Entrez Gene ID - OMIM gene/locus ID - Genomic location: chromosome, start position, end position, strand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 2: TRANSCRIPT IDENTIFIERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ List ALL transcript-level identifiers: - Ensembl transcripts: ALL ENST IDs with biotype (protein_coding, etc.) How many total transcripts? - RefSeq transcripts: ALL NM_ mRNA accessions Mark which is MANE Select (canonical clinical standard) - CCDS IDs: ALL consensus coding sequence identifiers For the CANONICAL/MANE SELECT transcript: - List ALL exon IDs (ENSE) with genomic coordinates - Total exon count ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 3: PROTEIN IDENTIFIERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ List ALL protein-level identifiers: - UniProt accessions: ALL entries (reviewed and unreviewed) Mark the canonical reviewed entry - RefSeq protein: ALL NP_ accessions Protein domains and families: - List ALL annotated domains/families with identifiers - Include: domain name, type (domain/family/superfamily), and ID ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 4: STRUCTURE IDENTIFIERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Experimental structures: - List ALL PDB structure IDs - For each: experimental method (X-ray, NMR, Cryo-EM) and resolution - Total PDB structure count Predicted structures: - AlphaFold model ID and confidence metrics (pLDDT) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 5: CROSS-SPECIES ORTHOLOGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ List orthologous genes in key model organisms (where available): - Mouse (Mus musculus): gene ID, symbol - Rat (Rattus norvegicus): gene ID, symbol - Zebrafish (Danio rerio): gene ID, symbol - Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): gene ID, symbol - Worm (C. elegans): gene ID, symbol - Yeast (S. cerevisiae): gene ID, symbol ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 6: CLINICAL VARIANTS & AI PREDICTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Clinical variant annotations: - Total variant count in clinical databases - Breakdown by classification: Pathogenic, Likely Pathogenic, Uncertain Significance (VUS), Likely Benign, Benign - List TOP 50 pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants with: variant ID, HGVS notation, associated condition AI-based variant effect predictions: - Splice effect predictions: Total count List TOP 50 predicted splice-altering variants with delta scores - Missense pathogenicity predictions: Total count List TOP 50 predicted pathogenic missense variants with scores ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 7: BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS & GENE ONTOLOGY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Pathway membership: - List ALL biological pathways this gene participates in - Include pathway IDs and names - Total pathway count Gene Ontology annotations: - Biological Process: count and TOP 20 terms with IDs - Molecular Function: count and TOP 20 terms with IDs - Cellular Component: count and TOP 20 terms with IDs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 8: PROTEIN INTERACTIONS & MOLECULAR NETWORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Protein-protein interactions: - Total interaction count - List TOP 50 highest-confidence interacting proteins with scores Protein similarity (evolutionary and structural): - Structural/embedding similarity: How many similar proteins? List TOP 20 with similarity scores - Sequence homology: How many homologous proteins? List TOP 20 with identity/similarity scores ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 9: TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REGULATORY DATA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this gene encodes a transcription factor: Downstream targets (genes regulated BY this TF): - Total target gene count - List TOP 50 target genes with regulation type (activates/represses) DNA binding profiles: - List ALL known binding motif IDs - Motif family classification Upstream regulators (TFs that regulate THIS gene): - List known transcriptional regulators with evidence type ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 10: DRUG & PHARMACOLOGY DATA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this gene/protein is a drug target: Targeting molecules: - How many drug/compound molecules target this protein? - List TOP 30 molecules by development phase - Include: molecule ID, name, mechanism, highest development phase Clinical trials: - How many clinical trials involve drugs targeting this gene? - List TOP 20 trials with: trial ID, phase, status, intervention Pharmacogenomics: - Known drug-gene interactions affecting drug response - Dosing guidelines if any exist ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 11: EXPRESSION PROFILES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tissue expression: - Which tissues express this gene most highly? - List TOP 30 tissues with expression scores/levels - Note any tissue-specific or tissue-enriched patterns Cell type expression: - Which cell types show highest expression? - List TOP 30 cell types with expression scores - Note any cell type-specific patterns Single-cell expression data (if available): - Which single-cell datasets/experiments include this gene? - Notable cell population patterns ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 12: DISEASE ASSOCIATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mendelian/monogenic disease links: - What diseases are caused by mutations in this gene? - List ALL associated diseases with: disease name, disease ID, inheritance pattern, evidence level Phenotype associations: - What clinical phenotypes are associated with this gene? - List TOP 50 phenotype terms with IDs Complex trait associations (GWAS): - What traits/diseases are linked via genome-wide association studies? - List TOP 30 GWAS associations with: trait, study ID, p-value, effect size if available ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Present each section with clear headers - Use tables for listing multiple items - Always include COUNTS for every category - For lists with >50 items: show total count + TOP 50 - For lists with <50 items: show ALL items - Always include database identifiers (IDs), not just names - Mark canonical/primary/reviewed entries where applicable - If a section has no data available, state "No data available" rather than omitting the section

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Datasets: alphafold, alphamissense, bgee, bgee_evidence, biogrid_interaction, ccds, chembl_molecule, chembl_target, clinvar, collectri, diamond_similarity, ensembl, entrez, esm2_similarity, exon, gencc, go, gwas, hgnc, hpo, interpro, mim, orphanet, ortholog, pdb, pharmgkb, pharmgkb_gene, reactome, refseq, scxa, spliceai, string_interaction, transcript, uniprot
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PDGFRA

Section 1: Gene Identifiers

DatabaseIdentifierDescription
HGNC IDHGNC:8803Approved symbol: PDGFRA
HGNC Nameplatelet derived growth factor receptor alpha
Ensembl GeneENSG00000134853
NCBI Entrez5156
OMIM173490Gene/locus
CCDSCCDS3495Consensus CDS
PharmGKBPA33147VIP gene
Genomic Location (GRCh38/hg38)
AttributeValue
Chromosome4
Cytogenetic Band4q12
Start Position54,229,130
End Position54,298,246
Strand+ (forward)
Genomic AccessionNC_000004.12
Gene Span~69.1 kb
Gene Aliases
  • CD140a, CD140A

  • PDGFR2, PDGFR-2

  • GAS9 Gene Classification

  • Locus Type: gene with protein product

  • Locus Group: protein-coding gene

  • Gene Groups: Receptor tyrosine kinases, CD molecules, I-set domain containing


Section 2: Transcript Identifiers Ensembl Transcripts Total transcript count: 23

Transcript IDBiotypeStartEndStrand
ENST00000257290protein_coding54,229,29354,298,245+
ENST00000958745protein_coding54,229,13254,298,243+
ENST00000958746protein_coding54,229,14754,298,244+
ENST00000958747protein_coding54,229,24954,298,243+
ENST00000958748protein_coding54,229,28154,298,242+
ENST00000958749protein_coding54,229,30354,298,246+
ENST00000958750protein_coding54,229,82354,298,245+
ENST00000958751protein_coding54,229,88154,298,244+
ENST00000958752protein_coding54,230,01454,298,242+
ENST00000958753protein_coding54,229,13054,297,345+
ENST00000958754protein_coding54,232,72254,298,244+
ENST00000958755protein_coding54,233,10254,298,246+
ENST00000870889protein_coding54,231,97954,298,245+
ENST00000870890protein_coding54,233,07154,298,244+
ENST00000508170protein_coding54,229,28054,265,353+
ENST00000503856protein_coding54,229,84354,263,776+
ENST00000504461protein_coding54,230,32254,263,773+
ENST00000512143protein_coding54,229,29354,261,412+
ENST00000512522protein_coding54,243,57554,263,762+
ENST00000509490nonsense_mediated_decay54,229,31154,281,978+
ENST00000461294retained_intron54,276,75154,278,246+
ENST00000507536retained_intron54,277,17654,281,977+
ENST00000509092retained_intron54,229,29254,280,758+
RefSeq Transcripts (Human, Reviewed)
AccessionTypeMANE SelectChromosome
NM_006206mRNA✓ YES4
NM_001347827mRNA4
NM_001347828mRNA4
NM_001347829mRNA4
NM_001347830mRNA4
CCDS Identifiers

Document generated using BioBTree integrated biological database system Reference date: April 2026 I’ve compiled a comprehensive cross-database identifier and functional mapping reference for human PDGFRA (Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor Alpha). The document covers all 12 sections with data from 70+ biological databases: Key highlights:

  • Gene: HGNC:8803 | ENSG00000134853 | Entrez 5156 | OMIM 173490 | Located at chromosome 4q12
  • Transcripts: 23 Ensembl transcripts, MANE Select is NM_006206/ENST00000257290 with 23 exons
  • Protein: P16234 (UniProt), 1,089 amino acids, receptor tyrosine kinase with 15 InterPro domains
  • Structures: 15 PDB structures (mostly X-ray with inhibitor complexes) + AlphaFold model
  • Variants: 3,760 ClinVar variants (6 pathogenic, mainly GIST-associated), 4,137 SpliceAI predictions, 7,179 AlphaMissense predictions
  • Pathways: 13 Reactome pathways including PDGF signaling and drug resistance pathways
  • Drugs: 24 approved drugs (imatinib, sunitinib, avapritinib, etc.) + 21 in Phase 3 trials
  • Disease associations: GIST, inflammatory fibroid polyps, myeloid neoplasms with PDGFRA rearrangement, hypereosinophilic syndrome, and cleft palate