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Gene

PITPNB

phosphatidylinositol transfer protein beta

Summary

Cytogenetic location
22q12.1
Coordinates
Chromosome 22: 27,851,669–27,919,256 (GRCh38)
Exons
12 exons across 67.6 kb
Protein
271 amino acids
Also known as
VIB1B
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000335272.10NM_012399.5
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How PITPNB is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 22, with a bracket where PITPNB sits. PITPNB and 2 genes near it on chromosome 22, from 27,385,463 to 28,385,462.Chromosome 2222q12.1p13p12p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q12.1q12.2q12.3q13.1q13.2q13.31q13.32q13.3327.4 Mb27.6 Mb27.8 Mb28 Mb28.2 MbMN1: 27,748,277–27,801,756, reverse strandMN1PITPNB: 27,851,669–27,919,256, reverse strandPITPNBTTC28: 27,978,014–28,679,925, reverse strandTTC28Diagram of PITPNB: 12 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 22Exon 12: 27,851,669–27,853,663, 1,995 basesExon 11: 27,854,854–27,854,939, 86 basesExon 10: 27,858,387–27,858,509, 123 basesExon 9: 27,860,131–27,860,241, 111 basesExon 8: 27,873,738–27,873,815, 78 basesExon 7: 27,894,555–27,894,638, 84 basesExon 6: 27,896,552–27,896,626, 75 basesExon 5: 27,897,130–27,897,137, 8 basesExon 4: 27,897,801–27,897,892, 92 basesExon 3: 27,910,964–27,911,109, 146 basesExon 2: 27,914,317–27,914,347, 31 basesExon 1: 27,919,172–27,919,256, 85 bases1210864215′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 2.9 kb of the gene's 67.6 kb; 816 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing PITPNB

2Easy

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

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

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

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Shared with chrY0%
  • Reference coverage0%
  • Repeats6.3%
  • GC content2.9%

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.). PITPNB gene: phosphatidylinositol transfer protein beta. Retrieved 20 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/pitpnb

Vancouver

Dante Labs. PITPNB gene: phosphatidylinositol transfer protein beta [Internet]. [cited 20 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/pitpnb

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