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Gene

MSC

musculin

Summary

Cytogenetic location
8q13.3
Coordinates
Chromosome 8: 71,841,560–71,844,412 (GRCh38)
Exons
2 exons across 2.9 kb
Protein
206 amino acids
Also known as
ABF-1, bHLHa22
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000325509.5NM_005098.4
Locus type
gene with protein product
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How MSC is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
Chromosome 8, with a bracket where MSC sits. MSC and 2 genes near it on chromosome 8, from 71,342,986 to 72,342,985.Chromosome 88q13.3p23.3p23.2p23.1p22p21.3p21.2p21.1p12p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q12.1q12.2q12.3q13.1q13.2q13.3q21.11q21.12q21.13q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.11q24.12q24.13q24.21q24.22q24.23q24.371.4 Mb71.6 Mb71.8 Mb72 Mb72.2 MbEYA1: 71,197,432–71,592,025, reverse strandEYA1MSC: 71,841,560–71,844,412, reverse strandMSCTRPA1: 72,019,608–72,089,998, reverse strandTRPA1Diagram of MSC: 2 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 8Exon 2: 71,841,560–71,842,747, 1,188 basesExon 1: 71,843,645–71,844,412, 768 bases215′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 2 kb of the gene's 2.9 kb; 621 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.). MSC gene: musculin. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/msc

Vancouver

Dante Labs. MSC gene: musculin [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/msc

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