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Gene

CDH18

cadherin 18

Summary

Cytogenetic location
5p14.3
Coordinates
Chromosome 5: 19,471,296–19,988,200 (GRCh38)
Exons
13 exons across 516.9 kb
Protein
790 amino acids
Also known as
CDH14, EY-CADHERIN
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000382275.6NM_004934.5
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads CDH18 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How CDH18 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 5, with a bracket where CDH18 sits. CDH18 and 0 genes near it on chromosome 5, from 18,954,391 to 20,505,105.Chromosome 55p14.3p15.33p15.32p15.31p15.2p15.1p14.3p14.2p14.1p13.3p13.2p13.1p12p11q11.1q11.2q12.1q12.2q12.3q13.1q13.2q13.3q14.1q14.2q14.3q15q21.1q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q23.1q23.2q23.3q31.1q31.2q31.3q32q33.1q33.2q33.3q34q35.1q35.2q35.319 Mb19.2 Mb19.4 Mb19.6 Mb19.8 Mb20 Mb20.2 Mb20.4 MbCDH18: 19,471,296–19,988,200, reverse strandCDH18Diagram of CDH18: 13 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 5Exon 13: 19,471,296–19,473,716, 2,421 basesExon 12: 19,483,301–19,483,552, 252 basesExon 11: 19,502,992–19,503,109, 118 basesExon 10: 19,520,657–19,520,778, 122 basesExon 9: 19,543,869–19,544,005, 137 basesExon 8: 19,571,579–19,571,832, 254 basesExon 7: 19,591,057–19,591,244, 188 basesExon 6: 19,612,434–19,612,601, 168 basesExon 5: 19,721,347–19,721,466, 120 basesExon 4: 19,746,942–19,747,236, 295 basesExon 3: 19,838,759–19,839,242, 484 basesExon 2: 19,981,060–19,981,178, 119 basesExon 1: 19,988,086–19,988,200, 115 bases1310515′3′

Exons of the gene's MANE Select transcript (release v1.5), from NCBI and EMBL-EBI, on the GRCh38 reference genome.

Chromosome bands from UCSC's GRCh38 ideogram (2022-10-29).

Nearby genes from Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.

Exons make up 4.8 kb of the gene's 516.9 kb; 2,373 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing CDH18

1Easy

How hard CDH18 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Almost all of CDH18's exons sit where short reads map cleanly.

What adds to it: the share of CDH18's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats2.8%
  • GC content4.7%
  • Reference coverage0%

A Dante Labs score from our own research, built on NIST's Genome in a Bottle maps of hard-to-sequence regions.How it's scored

External links

Where this comes from

  • HGNC: the gene's symbol, name, other symbols and location.
  • MANE Select v1.5, from NCBI and EMBL-EBI: the transcript, its exons and coding sequence.
  • The Genome in a Bottle genome stratifications, from NIST: the sequencing difficulty score.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). CDH18 gene: cadherin 18. Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/cdh18

Vancouver

Dante Labs. CDH18 gene: cadherin 18 [Internet]. [cited 18 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/cdh18

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