Gene
PEX10
peroxisomal biogenesis factor 10
- HGNC 8851↗(opens in a new tab)
- Ensembl gene ENSG00000157911↗(opens in a new tab)
- NCBI Gene 5192↗(opens in a new tab)
Summary
- Cytogenetic location
- 1p36.32
- Coordinates
- Chromosome 1: 2,403,974–2,412,564 (GRCh38)
- Exons
- 6 exons across 8.6 kb
- Protein
- 326 amino acids
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- Also known as
- RNF69
- MANE Select transcript
- ENST00000447513.7NM_002617.4
- Locus type
- gene with protein product
- Very high
- Confident
- Low
- Very low
Reference genomeGRCh38hg38
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Zellweger Spectrum & Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders
- Peroxisome biogenesis disorders (Zellweger spectrum and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata)Autosomal recessive
Changes in any of more than a dozen PEX genes, most often PEX1, affect the brain, liver, kidneys, bones, eyes and hearing, with severity ranging from life-limiting disease in infancy to milder vision, hearing and learning problems.
- ClinGen rates the link definitive
- 7 GenCC submitters rate it definitive or strong
What knowing changes
Diagnosis guides monitoring of liver, adrenal, vision and hearing function, supplementation where appropriate, and carrier testing for relatives.
Broader groupings
Other Inherited Leukodystrophies
- Leukodystrophy (other and unspecified types)
One of 80 genes linked to it
Inherited conditions that damage or prevent the normal formation of myelin, the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. Different types follow autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant or X-linked inheritance depending on the gene involved.
- ClinGen rates the link definitive
- 7 GenCC submitters rate it definitive or strong
What knowing changes
Knowing the specific genetic cause can end a diagnostic search, guide supportive care and surveillance, show whether a specific treatment exists, and allow testing of relatives.
Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- It takes a changed copy from each parent. With one, you are a carrier and usually unaffected; when both parents are carriers, each child has a one-in-four chance of inheriting two.
How PEX10 is laid out
- Coding sequence
- Untranslated region
- Intron
- Direction of transcription
- Known disease-causing sites
Exons of the gene's MANE Select transcript (release v1.5), from NCBI and EMBL-EBI, on the GRCh38 reference genome.
Chromosome bands from UCSC's GRCh38 ideogram (2022-10-29).
Nearby genes from Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.
Exons make up 2.8 kb of the gene's 8.6 kb; 981 of those bases code for the protein.
How a genome test reads PEX10
105
positions in PEX10 where ClinVar classes a change as pathogenic or likely pathogenic
None of them falls in a region short reads find hard.
A whole genome covers all 8.6 kb of PEX10, introns included, not only the 2.8 kb of exons.
Genes linked to the same conditions
- PEX1peroxisomal biogenesis factor 1Shares 2 conditions
- PEX11Bperoxisomal biogenesis factor 11 betaShares 2 conditions
- PEX12peroxisomal biogenesis factor 12Shares 2 conditions
- PEX13peroxisomal biogenesis factor 13Shares 2 conditions
- PEX14peroxisomal biogenesis factor 14Shares 2 conditions
- PEX16peroxisomal biogenesis factor 16Shares 2 conditions
- PEX19peroxisomal biogenesis factor 19Shares 2 conditions
- PEX2peroxisomal biogenesis factor 2Shares 2 conditions
- PEX26peroxisomal biogenesis factor 26Shares 2 conditions
- PEX3peroxisomal biogenesis factor 3Shares 2 conditions
- PEX5peroxisomal biogenesis factor 5Shares 2 conditions
- PEX6peroxisomal biogenesis factor 6Shares 2 conditions
Traits linked to PEX10
The Human Phenotype Ontology lists these as features of the rare conditions PEX10 can cause. Each trait's page lists the other genes linked to it.
Abnormality of the nervous system
- Ataxia
- Degeneration of cerebellum
- Epilepsy
- Leukodystrophy
- Motor axonal neuropathy
- Unsteady walk
- Abnormality of movement
- Cognitive impairment
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- Diminished deep tendon reflex
- EEG abnormality
- Global developmental delay
- Increased reflexes
- Loss of developmental milestones
- Profound global developmental delay
- Progressive cerebellar ataxia
- Severe global developmental delay
- Abnormal pyramidal sign
- Abnormality of neuronal migration
- Absent reflexes
- Behavioral abnormality
- Difficulty articulating speech
- Diffuse cerebellar atrophy
- Impaired distal vibration sensation
- Impaired vibratory sensation
- Inability to coordinate movements when walking
- Instability or lack of coordination of central trunk muscles
- Intellectual disability, mild
- Limb ataxia
- More grooves in brain
- Progressive gait ataxia
- Abnormal cerebral white matter morphology
- Abnormal head movements
- Decreased reflex response
- Decreased sensation in extremities
- Intention tremor
- Colpocephaly
- Fewer and broader ridges in brain
Abnormality of head or neck
- Wide nasal bridge
- Abnormality of the palate
- Depressed nasal bridge
- Eye folds
- Flat face
- High forehead
- Long, narrow head
- Nasal tip, upturned
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Abnormality of the musculoskeletal system
- Low muscle tone
- Abnormal skeletal development
- Progressive muscle weakness
- Severely decreased muscle tone
- Speckled calcifications in end part of bone
- Distal muscle wasting
- Involuntary muscle stiffness, contraction, or spasm
- Abnormal shape of end part of bone
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Abnormality of the digestive system
- Abnormality of the liver
- Enlarged liver
- Feeding difficulties in infancy
- Jaundice
- Liver failure
- Malabsorption
- Prolonged yellowing of skin in newborn
- Pyloric stenosis
Show 1 more trait
External links
Gene records
Transcript
Protein
Where this comes from
- HGNC: the gene's symbol, name, other symbols and location.
- MANE Select v1.5, from NCBI and EMBL-EBI: the transcript, its exons and coding sequence.
- GenCC and ClinGen, released 2026-10-16: which conditions the gene is linked to, and how strongly.
- The ACMG secondary findings list, SF v3.2.
- ClinVar and the GIAB stratifications: known disease-causing sites, and the regions short reads find hard.
- The Human Phenotype Ontology, release 2026-09-01: the traits linked to the gene. Find out more at hpo.jax.org.
- Data release 2026.10.16-c6eea6bf.
Cite this page
Dante Labs. (n.d.). PEX10 gene: peroxisomal biogenesis factor 10. Retrieved 16 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/pex10
Dante Labs. PEX10 gene: peroxisomal biogenesis factor 10 [Internet]. [cited 16 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/pex10
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