HDAC2

histone deacetylase 2

Summary

This gene product belongs to the histone deacetylase family. Histone deacetylases act via the formation of large multiprotein complexes, and are responsible for the deacetylation of lysine residues at the N-terminal regions of core histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4). This protein forms transcriptional repressor complexes by associating with many different proteins, including YY1, a mammalian zinc-finger transcription factor. Thus, it plays an important role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2010]

Known Variants24 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs113916:114,262,015A/C3 prime UTR variant
rs11597644666:114,262,927C/Tuncertain significance
rs3739531846:114,264,546T/Guncertain significance
rs12970734296:114,264,626C/Tuncertain significance
rs12523671406:114,265,437A/Glikely benign
rs12611599496:114,265,494T/Cuncertain significance
rs132044456:114,265,587T/A
rs774386686:114,267,287T/Abenign
rs15824820246:114,270,155G/Alikely benign
rs24826005816:114,270,364C/Auncertain significance
rs65688196:114,270,928C/A
rs104990806:114,273,646C/Tintron variant
rs24826117006:114,274,523T/Guncertain significance
rs13126237636:114,277,169T/Glikely benign
rs3677368506:114,277,324T/Clikely benign
rs24756316:114,277,625T/Cintron variant
rs17765615016:114,277,818A/Guncertain significance
rs17765617316:114,277,851A/Guncertain significance
rs2008055196:114,277,866G/Tbenign
rs7626816766:114,279,924G/Auncertain significance
rs15541981796:114,281,142C/Tuncertain significance
rs1142603866:114,281,189T/Cbenign
rs24996186:114,285,253C/Tintron variant
rs5474417776:114,290,646T/C

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.