SETD2 (Entrez ID: 29072)

Entrez Gene ID 29072
Official Gene Symbol SETD2 (GeneCards)
Full name SET domain containing 2
Location 3p21.31
Other ids Vega : OTTHUMG00000133514
MIM : 612778
HGNC : HGNC:18420
Ensembl : ENSG00000181555
Other names LLS, HYPB, SET2, HIF-1, HIP-1, KMT3A, HBP231, HSPC069, p231HBP
Summary Huntington's disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of striatal neurons, is caused by an expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the HD protein huntingtin. This gene encodes a protein belonging to a class of huntingtin interacting proteins characterized by WW motifs. This protein is a histone methyltransferase that is specific for lysine-36 of histone H3, and methylation of this residue is associated with active chromatin. This protein also contains a novel transcriptional activation domain and has been found associated with hyperphosphorylated RNA polymerase II. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2008]

Variants

Found 33 variants in this database.