Overview

Location [1]
6p21.2
Protein [2]
Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1
Synonyms [1]
CAP20, CIP1, P21, MDA-6, WAF1, SDI1, p21CIP1, CDKN1

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A (p21, Cip1) (CDKN1A) is a gene that encodes a protein that functions as a potent cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. The protein inhibits cyclin/CDK2 or cyclin/CDK4 complexes. Missense mutations, nonsense mutations, silent mutations, and frameshift deletions and insertions are observed in cancers such as intestinal cancer, liver cancer, and stomach cancer.

CDKN1A is altered in 0.92% of all cancers with bladder urothelial carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, infiltrating renal pelvis and ureter urothelial carcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, and high grade ovarian serous adenocarcinoma having the greatest prevalence of alterations [3].

CDKN1A GENIE Cases - Top Diseases

The most common alterations in CDKN1A are CDKN1A Mutation (0.47%), CDKN1A Amplification (0.16%), CDKN1A Loss (0.05%), CDKN1A R67H (0.02%), and CDKN1A C34* (0.02%) [3].

CDKN1A GENIE Cases - Top Alterations

Significance of CDKN1A in Diseases

Malignant Solid Tumor +

Colorectal Carcinoma +

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Breast Carcinoma +

Bladder Carcinoma +

Melanoma +

Ovarian Carcinoma +

Esophageal Carcinoma +

Gastric Carcinoma +

Lymphoma +

Glioblastoma +

Head And Neck Carcinoma +

Sarcoma +

Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Germ Cell Tumor +

Pancreatic Carcinoma +

Anaplastic Astrocytoma +

Histiocytic And Dendritic Cell Neoplasm +

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.