Overview

Location [1]
2q36.1
Protein [2]
Paired box protein Pax-3
Synonyms [1]
WS3, WS1, CDHS, HUP2

Paired box 3 (PAX3) is a gene that encodes a transcription factor protein that regulates fetal development, neural development, myogenesis, cell proliferation, migration, and apoptosis. Fusions, missense mutations, nonsense mutations, silent mutations, and frameshift deletions are observed in cancers such as endometrial cancer, intestinal cancer, and stomach cancer.

PAX3 is altered in 0.19% of all cancers with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, conventional glioblastoma multiforme, high grade ovarian serous adenocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, and endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinoma having the greatest prevalence of alterations [3].

PAX3 GENIE Cases - Top Diseases

The most common alterations in PAX3 are PAX3-FOXO1 Fusion (0.07%), PAX3 A411T (0.13%), PAX3 D189N (0.18%), PAX3 E194K (0.18%), and PAX3 T343M (0.10%) [3].

PAX3 GENIE Cases - Top Alterations

Significance of PAX3 in Diseases

Rhabdomyosarcoma +

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.