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Gene

QTGAL

queuosine-tRNA galactosyltransferase

Summary

Cytogenetic location
17q25.3
Coordinates
Chromosome 17: 82,942,149–83,051,770 (GRCh38)
Exons
13 exons across 109.6 kb
Protein
346 amino acids
Also known as
B3GNT8
Previous symbols
B3GNTL1
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000320865.4NM_001009905.3
Locus type
gene with protein product
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Reference genomeGRCh38

Positions on gene and variant pages follow this choice, in this browser.

Curated reports relevant to this gene

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

How QTGAL is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 17, with a bracket where QTGAL sits. QTGAL and 8 genes near it on chromosome 17, from 82,496,960 to 83,496,959.Chromosome 1717q25.3p13.3p13.2p13.1p12p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.2q12q21.1q21.2q21.31q21.32q21.33q22q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.1q24.2q24.3q25.1q25.2q25.382.6 Mb82.8 Mb83 Mb83.2 Mb83.4 MbFOXK2: 82,519,248–82,644,662, forward strandFOXK2WDR45B: 82,614,562–82,648,553, reverse strandWDR45BRAB40B: 82,654,543–82,698,734, reverse strandRAB40BFN3KRP: 82,716,693–82,730,873, forward strandFN3KRPFN3K: 82,735,149–82,751,198, forward strandFN3KTBCD: 82,751,845–82,945,918, forward strandTBCDZNF750: 82,829,434–82,840,030, reverse strandZNF750QTGAL: 82,942,149–83,051,770, reverse strandQTGALMETRNL: 83,079,583–83,095,125, forward strandMETRNLDiagram of QTGAL: 13 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 17Exon 13: 82,942,149–82,944,049, 1,901 basesExon 12: 82,946,879–82,946,983, 105 basesExon 11: 82,956,695–82,956,769, 75 basesExon 10: 82,957,181–82,957,249, 69 basesExon 9: 82,957,359–82,957,494, 136 basesExon 8: 82,961,057–82,961,181, 125 basesExon 7: 82,965,651–82,965,746, 96 basesExon 6: 83,005,115–83,005,210, 96 basesExon 5: 83,014,454–83,014,519, 66 basesExon 4: 83,035,035–83,035,099, 65 basesExon 3: 83,048,471–83,048,570, 100 basesExon 2: 83,048,669–83,048,785, 117 basesExon 1: 83,051,737–83,051,770, 34 bases131210864215′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 kb of the gene's 109.6 kb; 1,041 of those bases code for the protein.

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.). QTGAL gene: queuosine-tRNA galactosyltransferase. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/qtgal

Vancouver

Dante Labs. QTGAL gene: queuosine-tRNA galactosyltransferase [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/qtgal

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