H2AC8

protein-coding

H2A clustered histone 8, the group of H2A histones

Gene summary

Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Nucleosomes consist of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer composed of pairs of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The chromatin fiber is further compacted through the interaction of a linker histone, H1, with the DNA between the nucleosomes to form higher order chromatin structures. This gene is intronless and encodes a replication-dependent histone that is a member of the histone H2A family. Transcripts from this gene lack polyA tails; instead, they contain a palindromic termination element. This gene is found in the large histone gene cluster on chromosome 6p22-p21.3. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2015]

Previous symbols:
  • H2AFA
  • HIST1H2AE

MANE transcript

NM_021052.4

Inheritance

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ClinVar variants

U:11

Top phenotype

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Max pathogenic AF

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Genomic locus

chr6:26,216,921-26,218,515

External References & Databases

Transcript & Mutation Effects

hg38 • Region Span ~1.6 kb
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GenCC Phenotypes & Disease Associations

Curated gene-disease validity assertions and inheritance patterns

No GenCC data available for this gene.

ClinVar Associated Diseases & Phenotypes

Reported disease conditions connected to H2AC8 variants in ClinVar

1 Conditions Cataloged
not specifiedTotal: 11

ClinVar Variants & Pathogenicity by Type

Statistics based on transcript NM_021052.4. Only rare variants are included.

We include only reliable ClinVar variants with their consequences to MANE Select, MANE Plus Clinical transcripts, or transcripts with TSL equal to 1. Click a count to filter the variants table below.

Slight differences between displayed counts and ClinVar may occur due to a different transcript/consequence chosen by our variant effect predictor, or because we classify Benign/Likely benign as Likely benign and Pathogenic/Likely pathogenic as Likely pathogenic.

EffectPLPVUSLBBSum
synonymous
0
missense
11
clinvar
11
nonsense
0
start loss
0
frameshift
0
splice donor/acceptor (+/-2bp)
0
Total00110011
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Transcript Catalog

Annotated transcript isoforms across RefSeq and Ensembl databases

Showing 3 of 3 transcripts
Transcript IDSourceProtein IDCoding ExonsMANE Status
NM_021052.4RefSeqNP_066390.11MANE Select
ENST00000303910.5EnsemblENSP00000303373.21MANE Select
ENST00000850583.1EnsemblENSP00000520870.11Standard

Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations & Pathways

Biological processes, molecular functions, cellular components and pathways

Pathways ConsensusPathDB

  • Systemic lupus erythematosus - Homo sapiens (human)
  • Necroptosis - Homo sapiens (human)
  • Alcoholism - Homo sapiens (human)
  • B-WICH complex positively regulates rRNA expression
  • ERCC6 (CSB) and EHMT2 (G9a) positively regulate rRNA expression

dbNSFP Gene Annotations

Source: dbNSFP

Function
FUNCTION: Core component of nucleosome. Nucleosomes wrap and compact DNA into chromatin, limiting DNA accessibility to the cellular machineries which require DNA as a template. Histones thereby play a central role in transcription regulation, DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosomal stability. DNA accessibility is regulated via a complex set of post-translational modifications of histones, also called histone code, and nucleosome remodeling.;

Intolerance Scores

LoFtool
0.0619
RVIS EVS
-0.41
RVIS percentile EVS
26.23

Essentials

Essential (CRISPR)
N
Essential (CRISPR2)
N
Essential (gene trap)
N
Indispensability pred.
E
Indispensability score
0.995

Gene Damage Prediction

AllRecessiveDominant
MendelianLowLowLow
Primary ImmunodeficiencyLowLowLow
CancerLowLowLow
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