DYTN

dystrotelin

Summary

This gene belongs to the dystrophin superfamily, which is characterized by the presence of four EF-hand motifs and a ZZ-domain. It is a likely ortholog of the Drosophila 'discontinuous actin hexagon' gene. It is noteworthy that the coding region of this gene lacks two coding exons that are found in the mouse ortholog. Human transcripts including these two exons are subject to nonsense-mediated transcript decay (NMD). On the other hand, transcripts skipping the two coding exons are expressed at very low levels. While this gene maintains an intact CDS, it may be an evolving pseudogene. However, after a discussion about this gene within the RefSeq group, as well as in the consensus coding sequence (CCDS) collaboration, it was decided to keep it as a protein-coding gene in the RefSeq, Ensembl-GENCODE and the CCDS sets. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2019]

Known Variants31 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs7542426402:207,516,552T/C—uncertain significance
rs13118134452:207,516,562C/A—uncertain significance
rs24692321142:207,527,761C/G—uncertain significance
rs24692322532:207,527,852G/T—uncertain significance
rs16995327782:207,527,969G/A—uncertain significance
rs16995330942:207,527,983G/C—likely benign
rs15593053522:207,528,047T/C—likely benign
rs3676677192:207,528,107G/A—uncertain significance
rs774406912:207,533,252C/Tintron variant—
rs7797914332:207,557,968T/G—uncertain significance
rs7641963782:207,557,977C/T—uncertain significance
rs2011661302:207,558,019A/G—uncertain significance
rs2007827182:207,559,513G/C—uncertain significance
rs7702339782:207,559,566C/A—uncertain significance
rs7525382232:207,559,600A/G—uncertain significance
rs2004223822:207,564,490C/T—uncertain significance
rs14847923292:207,564,507C/G—uncertain significance
rs1164930632:207,564,546C/A—likely benign
rs16999578862:207,564,566A/G—uncertain significance
rs7473031532:207,564,871C/T—uncertain significance
rs1997457952:207,564,891G/A—uncertain significance
rs7468232772:207,564,928C/T—uncertain significance
rs1146758472:207,569,580G/C—uncertain significance
rs2007200012:207,569,640C/T—likely benign
rs12217258002:207,570,538C/T—uncertain significance
rs5759189312:207,570,564C/T—likely benign
rs3758523602:207,570,581G/A—uncertain significance
rs10129248442:207,572,041G/C—uncertain significance
rs24692802112:207,572,086C/G—uncertain significance
rs786799162:207,572,118C/G—uncertain significance
rs24692935112:207,582,988G/T—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.