Description: Homo sapiens reticulocalbin 2, EF-hand calcium binding domain (RCN2), transcript variant 1, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_002902): The protein encoded by this gene is a calcium-binding protein located in the lumen of the ER. The protein contains six conserved regions with similarity to a high affinity Ca(+2)-binding motif, the EF-hand. This gene maps to the same region as type 4 Bardet-Biedl syndrome, suggesting a possible causative role for this gene in the disorder. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2012]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr15:77,223,962-77,242,601 Size: 18,640 Total Exon Count: 7 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr15:77,224,183-77,241,563 Size: 17,381 Coding Exon Count: 7
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Genetic Association Studies of Complex Diseases and Disorders
Genetic Association Database (archive): RCN2 CDC HuGE Published Literature: RCN2 Positive Disease Associations: Body Weight Related Studies:
Body Weight Caroline S Fox et al. BMC medical genetics 2007, Genome-wide association to body mass index and waist circumference: the Framingham Heart Study 100K project., BMC medical genetics.
[PubMed 17903300]
Adiposity traits are associated with SNPs on the Affymetrix 100K SNP GeneChip. Replication of these initial findings is necessary. These data will serve as a resource for replication as more genes become identified with BMI and WC.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q14257
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.