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Gene

FABP7

fatty acid binding protein 7

Summary

Cytogenetic location
6q22.31
Coordinates
Chromosome 6: 122,779,716–122,784,074 (GRCh38)
Exons
4 exons across 4.4 kb
Protein
132 amino acids
Also known as
B-FABP, BLBP
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000368444.8NM_001446.5
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads FABP7 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How FABP7 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
Chromosome 6, with a bracket where FABP7 sits. FABP7 and 6 genes near it on chromosome 6, from 122,281,895 to 123,281,894.Chromosome 66q22.31p25.3p25.2p25.1p24.3p24.2p24.1p23p22.3p22.2p22.1p21.33p21.32p21.31p21.2p21.1p12.3p12.2p12.1p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.2q12q13q14.1q14.2q14.3q15q16.1q16.2q16.3q21q22.1q22.2q22.31q22.32q22.33q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.1q24.2q24.3q25.1q25.2q25.3q26q27122.4 Mb122.6 Mb122.8 Mb123 Mb123.2 MbHSF2: 122,399,533–122,433,219, forward strandHSF2SERINC1: 122,443,348–122,471,854, reverse strandSERINC1PKIB: 122,471,914–122,736,903, forward strandPKIBFABP7: 122,779,716–122,784,074, forward strandFABP7SMPDL3A: 122,788,456–122,811,801, forward strandSMPDL3ACLVS2: 122,996,029–123,072,925, forward strandCLVS2TRDN: 123,215,088–123,637,316, reverse strandTRDNDiagram of FABP7: 4 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 6Exon 1: 122,779,716–122,779,867, 152 basesExon 2: 122,780,291–122,780,463, 173 basesExon 3: 122,781,093–122,781,194, 102 basesExon 4: 122,783,717–122,784,074, 358 bases12345′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 0.8 kb of the gene's 4.4 kb; 399 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing FABP7

2Low

How hard FABP7 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats3.7%
  • GC content17%
  • Reference coverage0%

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.). FABP7 gene: fatty acid binding protein 7. Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/fabp7

Vancouver

Dante Labs. FABP7 gene: fatty acid binding protein 7 [Internet]. [cited 18 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/fabp7

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