ECT2

epithelial cell transforming 2

Summary

The protein encoded by this gene is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor and transforming protein that is related to Rho-specific exchange factors and yeast cell cycle regulators. The expression of this gene is elevated with the onset of DNA synthesis and remains elevated during G2 and M phases. In situ hybridization analysis showed that expression is at a high level in cells undergoing mitosis in regenerating liver. Thus, this protein is expressed in a cell cycle-dependent manner during liver regeneration, and is thought to have an important role in the regulation of cytokinesis. Several transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2017]

Known Variants35 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs76465073:172,476,419G/C
rs2006962333:172,476,780T/Guncertain significance
rs12966980173:172,476,804C/Tuncertain significance
rs13531283963:172,476,810T/Cuncertain significance
rs1437564633:172,477,950G/Tuncertain significance
rs7487788713:172,477,998T/Guncertain significance
rs24741763803:172,479,425T/Auncertain significance
rs10080898313:172,480,540A/Guncertain significance
rs7471234353:172,480,563A/Tuncertain significance
rs3697619443:172,482,101A/Guncertain significance
rs7476434423:172,482,141G/Auncertain significance
rs13159245233:172,482,155A/Guncertain significance
rs3729710673:172,482,173A/Guncertain significance
rs7548280413:172,482,203C/Tuncertain significance
rs7692259533:172,482,236A/Guncertain significance
rs3749301763:172,482,285A/Guncertain significance
rs17201058153:172,486,854A/Cuncertain significance
rs617471333:172,491,707A/Gbenign
rs7616205103:172,499,966A/Guncertain significance
rs1824727993:172,499,983G/Auncertain significance
rs7570579263:172,504,318A/Guncertain significance
rs7512295253:172,520,482C/Guncertain significance
rs13658783893:172,520,687C/Tuncertain significance
rs1468239823:172,520,688G/Auncertain significance
rs24750836163:172,523,521A/Tuncertain significance
rs7592464183:172,523,531A/Guncertain significance
rs1164675613:172,529,934C/Tintron variant
rs1501675603:172,533,489G/Tuncertain significance
rs2007668643:172,534,520G/Auncertain significance
rs10070226023:172,534,568A/Tuncertain significance
rs7569206833:172,534,584A/Cuncertain significance
rs3760695953:172,534,620C/Tuncertain significance
rs1848292383:172,537,406G/Aintron variant
rs7661073263:172,538,017A/Guncertain significance
rs768640723:172,538,065C/T3 prime UTR variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.