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Gene

NCALD

neurocalcin delta

Summary

Cytogenetic location
8q22.3
Coordinates
Chromosome 8: 101,686,542–101,790,969 (GRCh38)
Exons
4 exons across 104.4 kb
Protein
193 amino acids
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000220931.11NM_032041.3
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How NCALD is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 8, with a bracket where NCALD sits. NCALD and 2 genes near it on chromosome 8, from 101,238,756 to 102,238,755.Chromosome 88q22.3p23.3p23.2p23.1p22p21.3p21.2p21.1p12p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q12.1q12.2q12.3q13.1q13.2q13.3q21.11q21.12q21.13q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.11q24.12q24.13q24.21q24.22q24.23q24.3101.4 Mb101.6 Mb101.8 Mb102 Mb102.2 MbGRHL2: 101,492,421–101,669,727, forward strandGRHL2NCALD: 101,686,542–101,790,969, reverse strandNCALDRRM2B: 102,204,502–102,239,382, reverse strandRRM2BDiagram of NCALD: 4 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 8Exon 4: 101,686,542–101,689,406, 2,865 basesExon 3: 101,692,791–101,692,896, 106 basesExon 2: 101,719,252–101,719,648, 397 basesExon 1: 101,790,862–101,790,969, 108 bases43215′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 3.5 kb of the gene's 104.4 kb; 582 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing NCALD

0Easy

How hard NCALD is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Almost all of NCALD's exons sit where short reads map cleanly.

What adds to it: the share of NCALD's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats2.1%
  • GC content0%
  • Reference coverage0%

A Dante Labs score from our own research, built on NIST's Genome in a Bottle maps of hard-to-sequence regions.How it's scored

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.
  • The Genome in a Bottle genome stratifications, from NIST: the sequencing difficulty score.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). NCALD gene: neurocalcin delta. Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/ncald

Vancouver

Dante Labs. NCALD gene: neurocalcin delta [Internet]. [cited 18 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/ncald

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