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Gene

PRR16

proline rich 16

Summary

Cytogenetic location
5q23.1
Coordinates
Chromosome 5: 120,464,300–120,687,314 (GRCh38)
Exons
2 exons across 223 kb
Protein
304 amino acids
Also known as
DSC54
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000407149.7NM_001300783.2
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads PRR16 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How PRR16 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 5, with a bracket where PRR16 sits. PRR16 and 0 genes near it on chromosome 5, from 120,075,807 to 121,075,806.Chromosome 55q23.1p15.33p15.32p15.31p15.2p15.1p14.3p14.2p14.1p13.3p13.2p13.1p12p11q11.1q11.2q12.1q12.2q12.3q13.1q13.2q13.3q14.1q14.2q14.3q15q21.1q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q23.1q23.2q23.3q31.1q31.2q31.3q32q33.1q33.2q33.3q34q35.1q35.2q35.3120.2 Mb120.4 Mb120.6 Mb120.8 Mb121 MbPRR16: 120,464,300–120,687,314, forward strandPRR16Diagram of PRR16: 2 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 5Exon 1: 120,464,300–120,464,645, 346 basesExon 2: 120,685,954–120,687,314, 1,361 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 1.7 kb of the gene's 223 kb; 915 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing PRR16

6Easy

How hard PRR16 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Almost all of PRR16's exons sit where short reads map cleanly.

What adds to it: the share of PRR16's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Shared with chrY0%
  • Reference coverage0%
  • Repeats5.8%
  • GC content23%

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.). PRR16 gene: proline rich 16. Retrieved 20 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/prr16

Vancouver

Dante Labs. PRR16 gene: proline rich 16 [Internet]. [cited 20 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/prr16

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