CCNH

cyclin H

Summary

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the highly conserved cyclin family, whose members are characterized by a dramatic periodicity in protein abundance through the cell cycle. Cyclins function as regulators of CDK kinases. Different cyclins exhibit distinct expression and degradation patterns which contribute to the temporal coordination of each mitotic event. This cyclin forms a complex with CDK7 kinase and ring finger protein MAT1. The kinase complex is able to phosphorylate CDK2 and CDC2 kinases, thus functions as a CDK-activating kinase (CAK). This cyclin and its kinase partner are components of TFIIH, as well as RNA polymerase II protein complexes. They participate in two different transcriptional regulation processes, suggesting an important link between basal transcription control and the cell cycle machinery. A pseudogene of this gene is found on chromosome 4. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants.[provided by RefSeq, Nov 2010]

Known Variants35 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs351486385:86,610,989A/Cintron variant—
rs8632237205:86,627,243——pathogenic
rs1378532185:86,629,108C/Tstop gainedpathogenic
rs1378532145:86,645,121G/Tmissense variantpathogenic
rs1378532155:86,645,126A/Gmissense variantpathogenic
rs1378532165:86,645,129A/Gmissense variantpathogenic
rs10647962325:86,659,202——pathogenic
rs1378532175:86,665,638G/Amissense variantpathogenic
rs8632237185:86,672,329C/Tstop gainedpathogenic
rs8860417405:86,672,362G/Tstop gainedpathogenic
rs8632237195:86,676,413G/A—pathogenic
rs10853077205:86,681,157——pathogenic
rs10605034385:86,681,207G/A—pathogenic
rs10605034405:86,685,339C/Tstop gainedpathogenic
rs7512180195:86,690,868T/C—uncertain significance
rs1997340315:86,690,887C/T—uncertain significance
rs1445846035:86,695,224G/C—uncertain significance
rs3686540745:86,695,263T/C—uncertain significance
rs22306415:86,695,274A/Tmissense variant—
rs30938165:86,697,387A/Gintron variant—
rs17634305925:86,697,536A/G—uncertain significance
rs7505257385:86,697,547G/C—uncertain significance
rs25307004345:86,697,566A/G—uncertain significance
rs7567730055:86,700,694G/C—uncertain significance
rs1453788455:86,700,748G/A—uncertain significance
rs22666915:86,703,905T/C—benign
rs1439385185:86,703,934G/T—uncertain significance
rs25307238145:86,703,944A/C—uncertain significance
rs7647924585:86,703,960C/T—uncertain significance
rs3763566375:86,703,993C/T—uncertain significance
rs1918536225:86,705,160G/A—likely benign
rs14849565495:86,705,167A/G—uncertain significance
rs30937855:86,707,121T/C—benign
rs22349425:86,708,529C/A—benign
rs7667907915:86,708,536C/T—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.