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Gene

CXorf51B

chromosome X open reading frame 51B

Summary

Cytogenetic location
Xq27.3
Coordinates
Chromosome X: 146,809,771–146,810,411 (GRCh38)
Exons
2 exons across 0.6 kb
Protein
108 amino acids
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000438525.3NM_001244892.2
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads CXorf51B yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How CXorf51B is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome X, with a bracket where CXorf51B sits. CXorf51B and 1 gene near it on chromosome X, from 146,310,091 to 147,310,090.Chromosome XXq27.3p22.33p22.32p22.31p22.2p22.13p22.12p22.11p21.3p21.2p21.1p11.4p11.3p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11.1q11.2q12q13.1q13.2q13.3q21.1q21.2q21.31q21.32q21.33q22.1q22.2q22.3q23q24q25q26.1q26.2q26.3q27.1q27.2q27.3q28146.4 Mb146.6 Mb146.8 Mb147 Mb147.2 MbCXorf51B: 146,809,771–146,810,411, forward strandCXorf51BCXorf51A: 146,814,106–146,814,744, reverse strandCXorf51ADiagram of CXorf51B: 2 exons on the forward strand of chromosome XExon 1: 146,809,771–146,809,923, 153 basesExon 2: 146,810,114–146,810,411, 298 bases125′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 0.5 kb of the gene's 0.6 kb; 327 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing CXorf51B

100Hard

How hard CXorf51B is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Much of CXorf51B sits where short reads can miss or misplace a change.

What adds to it: the share of CXorf51B's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability100%
  • Homology100%
  • Shared with chrY0%
  • Reference coverage0%
  • Repeats0%
  • GC content0%

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.). CXorf51B gene: chromosome X open reading frame 51B. Retrieved 20 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/cxorf51b

Vancouver

Dante Labs. CXorf51B gene: chromosome X open reading frame 51B [Internet]. [cited 20 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/cxorf51b

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