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Gene

HECA

HECA ribonucleoprotein granule regulator

Summary

Cytogenetic location
6q24.1
Coordinates
Chromosome 6: 139,135,080–139,180,802 (GRCh38)
Exons
4 exons across 45.7 kb
Protein
543 amino acids
Also known as
HDCL, hHDC, HDC, dJ225E12.1
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000367658.3NM_016217.3
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How HECA is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 6, with a bracket where HECA sits. HECA and 7 genes near it on chromosome 6, from 138,657,941 to 139,657,940.Chromosome 66q24.1p25.3p25.2p25.1p24.3p24.2p24.1p23p22.3p22.2p22.1p21.33p21.32p21.31p21.2p21.1p12.3p12.2p12.1p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.2q12q13q14.1q14.2q14.3q15q16.1q16.2q16.3q21q22.1q22.2q22.31q22.32q22.33q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.1q24.2q24.3q25.1q25.2q25.3q26q27138.8 Mb139 Mb139.2 Mb139.4 Mb139.6 MbNHSL1: 138,422,033–138,693,253, reverse strandNHSL1CCDC28A: 138,773,493–138,809,746, forward strandCCDC28AECT2L: 138,795,911–138,904,711, forward strandECT2LREPS1: 138,902,982–138,988,356, reverse strandREPS1ABRACL: 139,013,371–139,046,816, forward strandABRACLHECA: 139,135,080–139,180,802, forward strandHECATXLNB: 139,239,083–139,291,998, reverse strandTXLNBCITED2: 139,370,966–139,375,909, reverse strandCITED2Diagram of HECA: 4 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 6Exon 1: 139,135,080–139,135,667, 588 basesExon 2: 139,166,284–139,167,324, 1,041 basesExon 3: 139,174,385–139,174,539, 155 basesExon 4: 139,176,941–139,180,802, 3,862 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 5.6 kb of the gene's 45.7 kb; 1,632 of those bases code for the protein.

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.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). HECA gene: HECA ribonucleoprotein granule regulator. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/heca

Vancouver

Dante Labs. HECA gene: HECA ribonucleoprotein granule regulator [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/heca

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