CENPU

centromere protein U

Summary

The centromere is a specialized chromatin domain, present throughout the cell cycle, that acts as a platform on which the transient assembly of the kinetochore occurs during mitosis. All active centromeres are characterized by the presence of long arrays of nucleosomes in which CENPA (MIM 117139) replaces histone H3 (see MIM 601128). MLF1IP, or CENPU, is an additional factor required for centromere assembly (Foltz et al., 2006 [PubMed 16622419]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]

Known Variants31 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs14324965114:185,616,470T/Auncertain significance
rs1496697734:185,616,473T/Cuncertain significance
rs5728580584:185,616,479A/Guncertain significance
rs1466852534:185,616,485C/Tlikely benign
rs25310924364:185,616,492G/Auncertain significance
rs1508874464:185,616,501C/Tuncertain significance
rs17602452884:185,616,551T/Cuncertain significance
rs7666501874:185,618,854G/Auncertain significance
rs5393113474:185,618,881C/Tlikely benign
rs13125891084:185,618,904C/Guncertain significance
rs7709444984:185,618,950G/Cuncertain significance
rs1410511704:185,622,002T/Cuncertain significance
rs7739147794:185,623,290G/Auncertain significance
rs5378968994:185,623,564C/Alikely benign
rs7554995914:185,634,157T/Cuncertain significance
rs3710811474:185,637,568C/Auncertain significance
rs1485899624:185,637,664C/Tuncertain significance
rs7599667084:185,637,676T/Clikely benign
rs7580031934:185,637,687C/Tuncertain significance
rs15611391904:185,638,315T/Guncertain significance
rs7727624514:185,638,316C/Tuncertain significance
rs21303924:185,639,169G/C
rs5616252314:185,646,168G/Auncertain significance
rs12757342064:185,646,191T/Cuncertain significance
rs12175740674:185,646,196C/Guncertain significance
rs7795753774:185,650,090C/Tuncertain significance
rs1396772154:185,650,152T/Auncertain significance
rs7509241394:185,650,168G/Auncertain significance
rs1489080024:185,652,115G/Auncertain significance
rs9179945684:185,655,183G/Auncertain significance
rs7725976844:185,655,207G/Auncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.