DUS2

dihydrouridine synthase 2

Summary

This gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein that catalyzes the conversion of uridine residues to dihydrouridine in the D-loop of tRNA. The resulting modified bases confer enhanced regional flexibility to tRNA. The encoded protein may increase the rate of translation by inhibiting an interferon-induced protein kinase. This gene has been implicated in pulmonary carcinogenesis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2012]

Known Variants29 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs37533719216:68,072,033C/Tuncertain significance
rs254463605416:68,072,051A/Cuncertain significance
rs14723549616:68,083,442G/Auncertain significance
rs11690600516:68,084,063C/Tintron variant
rs74699624916:68,088,514G/Cuncertain significance
rs14109230016:68,100,230C/Tuncertain significance
rs228591216:68,100,461C/G
rs14332920816:68,100,496C/Tuncertain significance
rs76719058116:68,100,526G/Auncertain significance
rs37281868816:68,104,041C/Tuncertain significance
rs56151026816:68,104,051G/Auncertain significance
rs74672661616:68,104,860A/Guncertain significance
rs97894351116:68,104,932C/Guncertain significance
rs14584499216:68,104,952A/Guncertain significance
rs14708031616:68,104,995A/Guncertain significance
rs13848546516:68,107,938C/Tuncertain significance
rs76672328616:68,107,940G/Auncertain significance
rs75392263516:68,107,953A/Guncertain significance
rs77970158016:68,108,010C/Tuncertain significance
rs203414217216:68,109,275G/Auncertain significance
rs92523749416:68,109,348G/Cuncertain significance
rs115867261616:68,109,362C/Tuncertain significance
rs76244931516:68,110,588G/Auncertain significance
rs77926997716:68,112,367G/Auncertain significance
rs14412244516:68,112,382T/Auncertain significance
rs14864011516:68,112,696G/Auncertain significance
rs148608097916:68,112,759G/Auncertain significance
rs254468039016:68,112,764A/Tuncertain significance
rs14058457216:68,112,834A/Guncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.