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Gene

GHRH

growth hormone releasing hormone

Summary

Cytogenetic location
20q11.23
Coordinates
Chromosome 20: 37,251,086–37,261,814 (GRCh38)
Exons
5 exons across 10.7 kb
Protein
108 amino acids
Previous symbols
GHRF
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000373614.7NM_021081.6
Locus type
gene with protein product
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Reference genomeGRCh38

Positions on gene and variant pages follow this choice, in this browser.

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How GHRH is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 20, with a bracket where GHRH sits. GHRH and 12 genes near it on chromosome 20, from 36,756,450 to 37,756,449.Chromosome 2020q11.23p13p12.3p12.2p12.1p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q12q13.11q13.12q13.13q13.2q13.31q13.32q13.3336.8 Mb37 Mb37.2 Mb37.4 Mb37.6 MbDSN1: 36,751,791–36,774,298, reverse strandDSN1MTCL2: 36,777,447–36,863,795, reverse strandMTCL2TLDC2: 36,873,061–36,898,931, forward strandTLDC2SAMHD1: 36,890,216–36,951,893, reverse strandSAMHD1RBL1: 36,996,088–37,096,034, reverse strandRBL1MROH8: 37,101,226–37,179,588, reverse strandMROH8RPN2: 37,178,396–37,241,630, forward strandRPN2GHRH: 37,251,086–37,261,814, reverse strandGHRHMANBAL: 37,289,559–37,317,260, forward strandMANBALSRC: 37,344,673–37,406,050, forward strandSRCBLCAP: 37,492,472–37,528,100, reverse strandBLCAPNNAT: 37,521,201–37,523,690, forward strandNNATCTNNBL1: 37,693,949–37,872,129, forward strandCTNNBL1Diagram of GHRH: 5 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 20Exon 5: 37,251,086–37,251,231, 146 basesExon 4: 37,254,210–37,254,329, 120 basesExon 3: 37,256,394–37,256,498, 105 basesExon 2: 37,256,807–37,256,908, 102 basesExon 1: 37,261,743–37,261,814, 72 bases543215′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 10.7 kb; 327 of those bases code for the protein.

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.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). GHRH gene: growth hormone releasing hormone. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/ghrh

Vancouver

Dante Labs. GHRH gene: growth hormone releasing hormone [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/ghrh

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