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General information
Gene symbol HERC2
Gene name HECT and RLD domain containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 2
Chromosome 15
Chromosomal band q13
Imprinted Unknown
Genomic reference NG_016355.1
Transcript reference NM_004667.5
Associated with diseases MRT-38, SHEP-1
Citation reference(s) -
Curators (1) Johan T. den Dunnen
Total number of public variants reported 452
Unique public DNA variants reported 70
Individuals with public variants 35
Hidden variants 50
Date created October 29, 2013
Date last updated September 28, 2016
Version HERC2:160928

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Links to other resources
External URL List of LSDBs for this gene
The reference LOVD for this gene, if available
HGNC HGNC:4868
Entrez Gene 8924
PubMed articles HERC2
OMIM - Gene 605837
OMIM - Diseases MRT-38 (mental retardation, autosomal recessive, type 38 (MRT-38))
SHEP-1 (pigmentation, hair, blond/brown - eyes, blue/non-blue, type 1 (SHEP-1, skin/hair/eye pigmentation))
HGMD HERC2
GeneCards HERC2
GeneTests HERC2


Active transcripts


ID     

Chr     

Name     

NCBI ID     

NCBI Protein ID     

DescendingVariants     
00003558 15 HECT and RLD domain containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 2 NM_004667.5 NP_004658.3 452


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