Skip to content
Use your HSA or FSA funds
Sequence your genome (opens in a new tab)

Gene

HOXC5

homeobox C5

Summary

Cytogenetic location
12q13.13
Coordinates
Chromosome 12: 54,033,050–54,035,361 (GRCh38)
Exons
2 exons across 2.3 kb
Protein
222 amino acids
Previous symbols
HOX3D, HOX3
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000312492.3NM_018953.4
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads HOXC5 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How HOXC5 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
Chromosome 12, with a bracket where HOXC5 sits. HOXC5 and 23 genes near it on chromosome 12, from 53,534,206 to 54,534,205.Chromosome 1212q13.13p13.33p13.32p13.31p13.2p13.1p12.3p12.2p12.1p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11q12q13.11q13.12q13.13q13.2q13.3q14.1q14.2q14.3q15q21.1q21.2q21.31q21.32q21.33q22q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.11q24.12q24.13q24.21q24.22q24.23q24.31q24.32q24.3353.6 Mb53.8 Mb54 Mb54.2 Mb54.4 MbATF7-NPFF: 53,506,691–53,625,979, reverse strandATF7-NPFFATF7: 53,507,856–53,626,412, reverse strandATF7ATP5MC2: 53,626,515–53,678,658, reverse strandATP5MC2CALCOCO1: 53,708,517–53,727,745, reverse strandCALCOCO1HOXC13: 53,938,718–53,946,544, forward strandHOXC13HOXC12: 53,954,903–53,958,956, forward strandHOXC11: 53,973,126–53,977,643, forward strandHOXC10: 53,985,065–53,990,279, forward strand: 53,985,845–54,034,888, forward strandHOXC6: 53,990,624–54,030,823, forward strandHOXC6HOXC9: 53,994,895–54,003,337, forward strandHOXC8: 54,008,911–54,012,769, forward strandHOXC8HOXC4: 54,015,897–54,056,030, forward strandHOXC4HOXC5: 54,033,050–54,035,361, forward strandHOXC5SMUG1: 54,121,277–54,189,008, reverse strandSMUG1CBX5: 54,230,942–54,280,141, reverse strandCBX5HNRNPA1: 54,280,193–54,287,088, forward strandHNRNPA1NFE2: 54,292,107–54,301,259, reverse strandNFE2COPZ1: 54,301,202–54,351,848, forward strandCOPZ1GPR84: 54,362,445–54,364,493, reverse strandGPR84ZNF385A: 54,369,129–54,391,338, reverse strandZNF385AITGA5: 54,395,261–54,419,515, reverse strandITGA5GTSF1: 54,455,950–54,473,602, reverse strandGTSF1NCKAP1L: 54,497,713–54,548,243, forward strandNCKAP1LDiagram of HOXC5: 2 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 12Exon 1: 54,033,050–54,033,576, 527 basesExon 2: 54,034,278–54,035,361, 1,084 bases125′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 1.6 kb of the gene's 2.3 kb; 669 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.). HOXC5 gene: homeobox C5. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/hoxc5

Vancouver

Dante Labs. HOXC5 gene: homeobox C5 [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/hoxc5

One test. A lifetime of answers.

From $449Free shipping · Results in 6–8 weeks

Get my Genome Test