EHMT2

euchromatic histone lysine methyltransferase 2

Summary

This gene encodes a methyltransferase that methylates lysine residues of histone H3. Methylation of H3 at lysine 9 by this protein results in recruitment of additional epigenetic regulators and repression of transcription. This gene was initially thought to be two different genes, NG36 and G9a, adjacent to each other in the HLA locus. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016]

Known Variants64 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1469030726:31,847,180G/Adownstream gene variant
rs5702636:31,847,196T/G
rs7461950496:31,848,556C/Tuncertain significance
rs24816235736:31,848,838C/Apathogenic
rs24816685726:31,850,531T/Auncertain significance
rs1484243976:31,851,172G/Alikely benign
rs6528886:31,851,234A/Gupstream gene variant
rs1807427496:31,851,549G/Acoding sequence variant
rs7795620616:31,851,602C/Auncertain significance
rs617453776:31,851,622C/Tbenign
rs715633866:31,851,768G/Ccoding sequence variant
rs7491376636:31,852,205C/Tuncertain significance
rs1452775466:31,852,221G/Tuncertain significance
rs1433278756:31,852,259C/Tuncertain significance
rs13954626576:31,852,491T/Cuncertain significance
rs7489688236:31,852,506G/Auncertain significance
rs9896849206:31,852,573C/Tuncertain significance
rs7704187336:31,852,718G/Auncertain significance
rs12080641846:31,854,584T/Cuncertain significance
rs24817879506:31,854,586T/Cuncertain significance
rs1999452986:31,854,592G/Auncertain significance
rs7472774616:31,854,634G/Auncertain significance
rs7801385816:31,854,872T/Cuncertain significance
rs17650515186:31,855,417G/Auncertain significance
rs1426061736:31,855,606C/Abenign
rs7655456136:31,855,637C/Auncertain significance
rs1483398166:31,855,706C/Tuncertain significance
rs7475471776:31,855,721T/Auncertain significance
rs7690360536:31,855,831T/Cuncertain significance
rs5655310856:31,855,888C/Tuncertain significance
rs1461765766:31,855,914C/Tuncertain significance
rs5537402126:31,856,144G/Auncertain significance
rs1486525256:31,856,164C/Glikely benign
rs7471897416:31,856,189C/Tuncertain significance
rs7686239406:31,856,193C/Tuncertain significance
rs1139730796:31,856,212C/Tbenign
rs358751046:31,856,294T/Cdownstream gene variant
rs1476981246:31,856,412C/Glikely benign
rs1175845916:31,856,561G/Aregulatory region variant
rs3690227436:31,856,750G/Alikely benign
rs7572229876:31,856,764G/Auncertain significance
rs7675338786:31,856,770C/Auncertain significance
rs5417528876:31,857,034C/Tuncertain significance
rs9730800456:31,857,044G/Auncertain significance
rs7614820286:31,857,386G/Alikely benign
rs349296496:31,858,530T/Cintron variant
rs623958486:31,858,906G/Cintron variant
rs3691546896:31,860,201C/Tuncertain significance
rs1513125066:31,860,256C/Tbenign
rs5565826126:31,860,280G/Abenign
rs1396177606:31,860,315G/Auncertain significance
rs7703891306:31,860,318G/Auncertain significance
rs5355866:31,860,337T/Asplice region variant
rs7794010506:31,860,683G/Auncertain significance
rs728424376:31,862,697G/Cupstream gene variant
rs24820770806:31,864,063T/Cuncertain significance
rs5687444746:31,864,107G/Auncertain significance
rs7687165096:31,864,164C/Guncertain significance
rs12887906846:31,864,226C/Tuncertain significance
rs6594456:31,864,304G/Abenign
rs1493848316:31,864,410C/Tbenign
rs9122801106:31,864,542C/Tuncertain significance
rs13697956086:31,864,551C/Guncertain significance
rs7639394486:31,864,760C/Guncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.