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Gene

REG3A

regenerating family member 3 alpha

Summary

Cytogenetic location
2p12
Coordinates
Chromosome 2: 79,157,006–79,159,753 (GRCh38)
Exons
6 exons across 2.7 kb
Protein
175 amino acids
Also known as
HIP, REG-III, REG3, PBCGF, PAP1
Previous symbols
PAP
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000305165.3NM_002580.3
Locus type
gene with protein product
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads REG3A yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How REG3A is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
Chromosome 2, with a bracket where REG3A sits. REG3A and 4 genes near it on chromosome 2, from 78,658,380 to 79,658,379.Chromosome 22p12p25.3p25.2p25.1p24.3p24.2p24.1p23.3p23.2p23.1p22.3p22.2p22.1p21p16.3p16.2p16.1p15p14p13.3p13.2p13.1p12p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.2q12.1q12.2q12.3q13q14.1q14.2q14.3q21.1q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q23.1q23.2q23.3q24.1q24.2q24.3q31.1q31.2q31.3q32.1q32.2q32.3q33.1q33.2q33.3q34q35q36.1q36.2q36.3q37.1q37.2q37.378.8 Mb79 Mb79.2 Mb79.4 Mb79.6 MbREG3G: 79,025,686–79,028,507, forward strandREG3GREG1B: 79,085,023–79,088,019, reverse strandREG1BREG1A: 79,111,236–79,123,410, forward strandREG1AREG3A: 79,157,006–79,159,753, reverse strandREG3ACTNNA2: 79,185,231–80,650,269, forward strandCTNNA2Diagram of REG3A: 6 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 2Exon 6: 79,157,006–79,157,293, 288 basesExon 5: 79,157,572–79,157,698, 127 basesExon 4: 79,158,326–79,158,463, 138 basesExon 3: 79,158,651–79,158,769, 119 basesExon 2: 79,159,330–79,159,439, 110 basesExon 1: 79,159,728–79,159,753, 26 bases6543215′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 0.8 kb of the gene's 2.7 kb; 528 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.). REG3A gene: regenerating family member 3 alpha. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/reg3a

Vancouver

Dante Labs. REG3A gene: regenerating family member 3 alpha [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/reg3a

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