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

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.