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Gene

CEP44

centrosomal protein 44

Summary

Cytogenetic location
4q34.1
Coordinates
Chromosome 4: 174,283,911–174,320,328 (GRCh38)
Exons
12 exons across 36.4 kb
Protein
390 amino acids
Previous symbols
KIAA1712
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000503780.6NM_001040157.3
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads CEP44 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How CEP44 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 4, with a bracket where CEP44 sits. CEP44 and 3 genes near it on chromosome 4, from 173,802,120 to 174,802,119.Chromosome 44q34.1p16.3p16.2p16.1p15.33p15.32p15.31p15.2p15.1p14p13p12p11q11q12q13.1q13.2q13.3q21.1q21.21q21.22q21.23q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q23q24q25q26q27q28.1q28.2q28.3q31.1q31.21q31.22q31.23q31.3q32.1q32.2q32.3q33q34.1q34.2q34.3q35.1q35.2174 Mb174.2 Mb174.4 Mb174.6 Mb174.8 MbFBXO8: 174,236,526–174,283,978, reverse strandFBXO8CEP44: 174,283,911–174,320,328, forward strandCEP44HPGD: 174,453,668–174,523,154, reverse strandHPGDGLRA3: 174,636,920–174,829,247, reverse strandGLRA3Diagram of CEP44: 12 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 4Exon 1: 174,283,911–174,283,943, 33 basesExon 2: 174,297,966–174,298,062, 97 basesExon 3: 174,299,072–174,299,210, 139 basesExon 4: 174,302,039–174,302,186, 148 basesExon 5: 174,303,703–174,303,849, 147 basesExon 6: 174,304,247–174,304,369, 123 basesExon 7: 174,308,689–174,308,859, 171 basesExon 8: 174,309,850–174,310,056, 207 basesExon 9: 174,310,783–174,310,858, 76 basesExon 10: 174,316,166–174,316,290, 125 basesExon 11: 174,316,530–174,316,567, 38 basesExon 12: 174,317,335–174,320,328, 2,994 bases1246810125′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 4.3 kb of the gene's 36.4 kb; 1,173 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing CEP44

3Easy

How hard CEP44 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Almost all of CEP44's exons sit where short reads map cleanly.

What adds to it: the share of CEP44's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats6%
  • GC content17%
  • 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.). CEP44 gene: centrosomal protein 44. Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/cep44

Vancouver

Dante Labs. CEP44 gene: centrosomal protein 44 [Internet]. [cited 18 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/cep44

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