HOXC4

homeobox C4

Summary

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, which are located on different chromosomes and consist of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene, HOXC4, is one of several homeobox HOXC genes located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Three genes, HOXC5, HOXC4 and HOXC6, share a 5' non-coding exon. Transcripts may include the shared exon spliced to the gene-specific exons, or they may include only the gene-specific exons. Two alternatively spliced variants that encode the same protein have been described for HOXC4. Transcript variant one includes the shared exon, and transcript variant two includes only gene-specific exons. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants24 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs73682512:54,417,576C/T
rs89473612:54,418,166A/Gregulatory region variant
rs730810512:54,424,123T/Cregulatory region variant
rs475931912:54,424,731G/Tupstream gene variant
rs1074768912:54,425,471C/A
rs207144912:54,428,011C/Aregulatory region variant
rs207145012:54,428,532C/Tcoding sequence variant
rs6192179712:54,428,747G/Acoding sequence variant
rs731549512:54,440,445A/C
rs713467712:54,441,498C/Tregulatory region variant
rs254027266212:54,447,783A/Guncertain significance
rs138306623812:54,447,789A/Guncertain significance
rs36914245412:54,447,963C/Tuncertain significance
rs254027330212:54,447,977C/Tuncertain significance
rs37165091612:54,447,990A/Guncertain significance
rs13820158212:54,448,075C/Tlikely benign
rs147835689412:54,448,093C/Alikely benign
rs7525674412:54,448,106A/Cmissense variant
rs20127905612:54,448,837C/Auncertain significance
rs89915515812:54,448,847C/Tuncertain significance
rs75704981512:54,448,870C/Auncertain significance
rs138655696212:54,448,886C/Auncertain significance
rs75993570412:54,448,942G/Auncertain significance
rs75183132812:54,448,958A/Guncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.