Overview

Location [1]
Xp11.3
Pathway
Chromatin remodeling/DNA methylation
Protein [2]
Lysine-specific demethylase 6A
Synonyms [1]
KABUK2, UTX, bA386N14.2

Lysine (K)-specific demethylase 6A (KDM6A) is a gene that encodes a protein that functions in the catalysis of the demethylation of tri/dimethylated histone H3. Missense mutations, nonsense mutations, silent mutations, whole gene deletions, frameshift deletions and insertions, and in-frame deletions and insertions are observed in cancers such as parathyroid cancer, salivary gland cancer, and cancers of the urinary tract.

KDM6A is altered in 3.37% of all cancers with bladder urothelial carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, breast invasive ductal carcinoma, prostate adenocarcinoma, and colon adenocarcinoma having the greatest prevalence of alterations [3].

KDM6A GENIE Cases - Top Diseases

The most common alterations in KDM6A are KDM6A Mutation (2.13%), KDM6A Loss (0.29%), KDM6A Amplification (0.16%), KDM6A Q555* (0.05%), and KDM6A Fusion (0.11%) [3].

KDM6A GENIE Cases - Top Alterations

Significance of KDM6A in Diseases

Medulloblastoma +

Medulloblastoma, Non-WNT/Non-SHH +

Bladder Carcinoma +

Desmoplastic/Nodular Medulloblastoma +

Large Cell/Anaplastic Medulloblastoma +

Malignant Solid Tumor +

Central Nervous System Embryonal Neoplasm +

Glioblastoma +

Breast Carcinoma +

Anaplastic Astrocytoma +

Central Nervous System Ganglioneuroblastoma +

Central Nervous System Neuroblastoma +

Medulloblastoma With Extensive Nodularity +

Medulloblastoma, SHH-Activated +

Medulloblastoma, WNT-Activated +

Medulloepithelioma +

Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma +

Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma +

Sarcomatoid Carcinoma +

Melanoma +

Head And Neck Carcinoma +

Malignant Ovarian Endometrioid Tumor +

Colorectal Carcinoma +

High-Grade Glioma, NOS +

Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Malignant Glioma +

Diffuse Glioma +

Pancreatic Carcinoma +

Anaplastic Ependymoma +

Ovarian Carcinoma +

Malignant Ovarian Clear Cell Tumor +

Lymphoma +

Synovial Sarcoma +

Sarcoma +

Soft Tissue Sarcoma +

Anaplastic Astrocytoma, IDH-Mutant +

Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma, IDH-Mutant And 1p/19q-Codeleted +

Anaplastic Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma +

Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor +

Diffuse Midline Glioma, H3 K27M-Mutant +

Embryonal Tumor With Multilayered Rosettes, C19MC-Altered +

Embryonal Tumor With Multilayered Rosettes, Not Otherwise Specified +

Ependymoma +

Ependymoma, RELA Fusion-Positive +

Epithelioid Sarcoma +

Pineoblastoma +

Rhabdoid Tumor +

References

1. Hart R and Prlic A. Universal Transcript Archive Repository. Version uta_20180821. San Francisco CA: Github;2015. https://github.com/biocommons/uta

2. The UniProt Consortium. UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47:D506-D515.

3. The AACR Project GENIE Consortium. AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium. Cancer Discovery. 2017;7(8):818-831. Dataset Version 8. This dataset does not represent the totality of the genetic landscape; see paper for more information.

4. All assertions and clinical trial landscape data are curated from primary sources. You can read more about the curation process here.