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

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.