Gene
GLI2
GLI family zinc finger 2
- HGNC 4318(opens in a new tab)
- Ensembl gene ENSG00000074047(opens in a new tab)
- NCBI Gene 2736(opens in a new tab)
Summary
- Cytogenetic location
- 2q14.2
- Coordinates
- Chromosome 2: 120,735,868–120,992,653 (GRCh38)
- Exons
- 14 exons across 256.8 kb
- Protein
- 1,569 amino acids
- Also known as
- THP2, HPE9, THP1
- MANE Select transcript
- ENST00000361492.9NM_001374353.1
- Locus type
- gene with protein product
- Very high
- Confident
- Low
- Very low
Reference genomeGRCh38hg38
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Non-Acquired Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency
Congenital hypopituitarism is characterized by multiple pituitary hormone deficiency, including somatotroph, thyrotroph, lactotroph, corticotroph or gonadotroph deficiencies, due to mutations of pituitary transcription factors involved in pituitary ontogenesis.
- 4 GenCC submitters rate it definitive or strong
How GLI2 is laid out
- Coding sequence
- Untranslated region
- Intron
- Direction of transcription
- Known disease-causing sites
- Stretches short reads find hard
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 7.1 kb of the gene's 256.8 kb; 4,710 of those bases code for the protein.
How a genome test reads GLI2
48
positions in GLI2 where ClinVar classes a change as pathogenic or likely pathogenic
None of them falls in a region short reads find hard.
A whole genome covers all 256.8 kb of GLI2, introns included, not only the 7.1 kb of exons.
Traits linked to GLI2
The Human Phenotype Ontology lists these as features of the rare conditions GLI2 can cause. Each trait's page lists the other genes linked to it.
Abnormality of the nervous system
- Epilepsy
- Global developmental delay
- Grand mal seizures
- High pitched voice
- Interictal epileptiform activity
- Severe global developmental delay
- Partial agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Abnormal central motor function
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- Abnormal corpus callosum morphology
- Abnormal morphology of the olfactory bulb
- Abnormal shape of brainstem
- Abnormal shape of midbrain
- Abnormality of the autonomic nervous system
- Absent speech development
- Anxiety
- Aplasia of the falx cerebri
- Attention deficit
- Behavioral abnormality
- Communication delay
- Depression
- Impulsivity
- Inability to walk
- Intellectual disability
- Irritability
- Lack of feeling, emotion, interest
- Lethargy
- Limb dystonia
- Neural tube defect
- Oromotor apraxia
- Poor speech
- Short attention span
- Sleep-wake cycle disturbance
- Specific learning disability
- Abnormal septum pellucidum morphology
- Agenesis of corpus callosum
- Alobar holoprosencephaly
- Enlarged brain
- Holoprosencephaly
- Hypoplasia of the pons
- Intellectual disability, severe
- Lateral ventricular asymmetry
- Occipital meningocele
- Perisylvian polymicrogyria
- Rhombencephalosynapsis
- Thin corpus callosum
- Too much cerebrospinal fluid in the brain
- Absent septum pellucidum
- Abnormal cortical gyration
Abnormality of head or neck
- Decreased size of maxilla
- Depressed nasal bridge
- Blockage of the rear opening of the nasal cavity
- Midnasal stenosis
- Only one upper front tooth
- Abnormally small head
- Bad bite
- Bifid uvula
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- Central cleft upper lip
- Cleft lip
- Cleft palate
- Flat nose
- High palate
- Narrow nasal bridge
- Prominent forehead
- Short philtrum
- Tented mouth
- Zygomatic flattening
- Absent lacrimal punctum
- Big calvaria
- Both sided cleft lip
- Broad nasal tip
- Cleft of the mouth
- Cleft upper lip
- Downturned corners of mouth
- Eye folds
- Facial asymmetry
- Frontoethmoidal encephalocele
- Full lower lip
- Midface retrusion
- Mono nostril
- Nasal tip, upturned
- Proboscis
- Right and left cleft palate
- Short neck
- Short nose
- Skin tag in front of the ear
- Wider-than-typical soft spot of skull
- Central cleft palate
- Absence of front tooth
- Hypoplasia of the primary palate bone
- Short hard palate
Abnormality of the endocrine system
- Abnormal TSH response to thyrotrophin-releasing hormone stimulation test
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency
- Central hypothyroidism
- Decreased circulating free T4 concentration
- Decreased circulating insulin-like growth factor 1 concentration
- Decreased growth hormone responses to growth hormone-releasing hormone challenge
- Decreased response to growth hormone stimulation test
- Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
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- Hypopituitarism
- Low blood cortisol level
- Reduced circulating growth hormone concentration
- Underdeveloped pituitary gland
- Abnormal hypothalamus physiology
- Abnormal prolactin level
- Abnormality of the endocrine system
- Absent pituitary gland
- Anterior hypopituitarism
- Central diabetes insipidus
- Decreased circulating ACTH concentration
- Decreased circulating follicle stimulating hormone concentration
- Decreased circulating luteinizing hormone level
- Decreased thyroid-stimulating hormone level
- Diabetes insipidus
- Early onset of puberty
- Ectopic posterior pituitary
- Low thyroid gland function due to abnormal pituitary gland
- Reduced circulating prolactin concentration
- Absence of secondary sex characteristics
- Delayed puberty
- Panhypopituitarism
- Underactive thyroid
- Ectopic anterior pituitary gland
Abnormality of the eye
- Abnormality of the eye
- Abnormally close eyes
- Cerebral visual impairment
- Absence of eyeballs
- Cat eye
- Cross-eyed
- Cyclops eye
- Drooping upper eyelid
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External links
Gene records
Transcript
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.
- GenCC and ClinGen, released 2026-10-16: which conditions the gene is linked to, and how strongly.
- The ACMG secondary findings list, SF v3.2.
- ClinVar and the GIAB stratifications: known disease-causing sites, and the regions short reads find hard.
- The Human Phenotype Ontology, release 2026-09-01: the traits linked to the gene. Find out more at hpo.jax.org.
- Data release 2026.10.16-c6eea6bf.
Cite this page
Dante Labs. (n.d.). GLI2 gene: GLI family zinc finger 2. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/gli2
Dante Labs. GLI2 gene: GLI family zinc finger 2 [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/gli2
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