HOXC6

Homeobox C6

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Identifiers
SymbolsHOXC6 ; CP25; HHO.C8; HOX3; HOX3C
External IDsOMIM: 142972 MGI: 96197 HomoloGene: 19533 GeneCards: HOXC6 Gene
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Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez322315425
EnsemblENSG00000197757ENSMUSG00000001661
UniProtP09630P10629
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_004503NM_010465
RefSeq (protein)NP_004494NP_034595
Location (UCSC)Chr 12:
53.99 – 54.03 Mb
Chr 15:
103 – 103.01 Mb
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Homeobox protein Hox-C6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXC6 gene.[1][2][3]

This gene belongs to the homeobox family, members of which encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, which are located on different chromosomes and consist of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene, HOXC6, is one of several HOXC genes located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Three genes, HOXC5, HOXC4 and HOXC6, share a 5' non-coding exon. Transcripts may include the shared exon spliced to the gene-specific exons, or they may include only the gene-specific exons. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified for HOXC6. Transcript variant two includes the shared exon, and transcript variant one includes only gene-specific exons.[3]

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References

  1. McAlpine PJ, Shows TB (Aug 1990). "Nomenclature for human homeobox genes". Genomics 7 (3): 460. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90186-X. PMID 1973146.
  2. Scott MP (Dec 1992). "Vertebrate homeobox gene nomenclature". Cell 71 (4): 551–3. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90588-4. PMID 1358459.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: HOXC6 homeobox C6".

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