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Gene

GALP

galanin like peptide

Summary

Cytogenetic location
19q13.43
Coordinates
Chromosome 19: 56,176,008–56,185,775 (GRCh38)
Exons
6 exons across 9.8 kb
Protein
116 amino acids
Also known as
GAL
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000357330.7NM_033106.4
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How GALP is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 19, with a bracket where GALP sits. GALP and 25 genes near it on chromosome 19, from 55,680,892 to 56,680,891.Chromosome 1919q13.43p13.3p13.2p13.13p13.12p13.11p12p11q11q12q13.11q13.12q13.13q13.2q13.31q13.32q13.33q13.41q13.42q13.4355.8 Mb56 Mb56.2 Mb56.4 Mb56.6 MbEPN1: 55,675,109–55,709,858, forward strandEPN1NLRP9: 55,708,438–55,738,402, reverse strandNLRP9RFPL4A: 55,759,043–55,763,424, forward strandRFPL4ARFPL4AL1: 55,769,118–55,773,420, forward strandRFPL4AL1NLRP11: 55,785,397–55,836,800, reverse strandNLRP11NLRP4: 55,836,540–55,881,855, forward strandNLRP4NLRP13: 55,891,699–55,932,336, reverse strandNLRP13NLRP8: 55,947,832–55,981,158, forward strandNLRP8NLRP5: 55,986,775–56,061,810, forward strandNLRP5ZNF787: 56,087,366–56,121,534, reverse strandZNF787ZNF444: 56,132,599–56,160,897, forward strandZNF444GALP: 56,176,008–56,185,775, forward strandGALPZSCAN5B: 56,189,686–56,197,815, reverse strandZSCAN5BZSCAN5C: 56,202,273–56,209,461, forward strandZSCAN5CZSCAN5A: 56,219,670–56,368,383, reverse strandZSCAN5AEDDM13: 56,272,735–56,310,454, forward strandEDDM13ZNF582: 56,375,840–56,393,606, reverse strandZNF582ZNF583: 56,397,966–56,436,035, forward strandZNF583ZNF667: 56,438,631–56,478,099, reverse strandZNF667ZNF471: 56,507,730–56,530,276, forward strandZNF471ZFP28: 56,538,875–56,557,597, forward strandZFP28ZNF470: 56,567,018–56,588,911, forward strandZNF470ZNF71: 56,595,257–56,626,833, forward strandZNF71: 56,595,302–56,657,247, forward strandSMIM17: 56,643,141–56,657,252, forward strandSMIM17ZNF835: 56,661,980–56,671,783, reverse strandZNF835Diagram of GALP: 6 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 19Exon 1: 56,176,008–56,176,062, 55 basesExon 2: 56,177,070–56,177,195, 126 basesExon 3: 56,180,586–56,180,634, 49 basesExon 4: 56,182,172–56,182,252, 81 basesExon 5: 56,183,135–56,183,212, 78 basesExon 6: 56,185,215–56,185,775, 561 bases1234565′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 1 kb of the gene's 9.8 kb; 351 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing GALP

2Easy

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

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

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

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats7.1%
  • GC content5.8%
  • 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.). GALP gene: galanin like peptide. Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/galp

Vancouver

Dante Labs. GALP gene: galanin like peptide [Internet]. [cited 18 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/galp

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