# ZFPM2

Source: https://onco.cc/targets/zfpm2/  
OnCo record `zfpm2` (Target). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)"; commercial use needs a licence.

## TL;DR

ZFPM2 (Zinc finger protein ZFPM2) is a protein that switches other genes on and off. In the public catalogues the evidence so far is association rather than a proven role. Tied to Breast cancer.

## Summary

Transcription regulator that plays a central role in heart morphogenesis and development of coronary vessels from epicardium, by regulating genes that are essential during cardiogenesis. Essential cofactor that acts via the formation of a heterodimer with transcription factors of the GATA family GATA4, GATA5 and GATA6. Such heterodimer can both activate or repress transcriptional activity, depending on the cell and promoter context.

Open Targets scores its association with cancer at 0.53 (direct and indirect evidence; datatypes literature 0.98, genetic association 0.66).

## Fields

- Kind: Target
- Last checked: 2026-09-23
- Also known as: zinc finger protein, FOG family member 2; Zinc finger protein ZFPM2; PRDM19; FOG2; hFOG-2; ZNF89B
- Tags: cancer-genes-wave
- Symbol: ZFPM2
- Class: transcription
- Biology: Transcription regulator that plays a central role in heart morphogenesis and development of coronary vessels from epicardium, by regulating genes that are essential during cardiogenesis. Essential cofactor that acts via the formation of a heterodimer with transcription factors of the GATA family GATA4, GATA5 and GATA6. Such heterodimer can both activate or repress transcriptional activity, depending on the cell and promoter context. Also required in gonadal differentiation, possibly be regulating expression of SRY. Probably acts a corepressor of NR2F2. Location: Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 8q23 (HGNC).
- Where found: Breast cancer: Open Targets association 0.51 with breast cancer (MONDO_0007254)

## Notes

- Written by scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts from CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC and UniProt; the function text is UniProt's, condensed and in UK spelling. Roles: none stated by the sources. Evidence tier "association-only" is the strongest of those signals.
- Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate.

## Sources

- HGNC HGNC:16700: https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:16700
- UniProt Q8WW38: https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q8WW38/entry
- NCBI Gene 23414: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/23414
- Ensembl ENSG00000169946: https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000169946

## Connected records

- collections: [Open Targets Platform](https://onco.cc/collections/open-targets/)
- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/)

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