Gene
RTL1
retrotransposon Gag like 1
- HGNC 14665↗(opens in a new tab)
- Ensembl gene ENSG00000254656↗(opens in a new tab)
- NCBI Gene 388015↗(opens in a new tab)
Summary
- Cytogenetic location
- 14q32.2
- Coordinates
- Chromosome 14: 100,879,753–100,903,722 (GRCh38)
- Exons
- 4 exons across 24 kb
- Protein
- 1,358 amino acids
- Also known as
- PEG11, MART1, Mar1, SIRH2, HUR1
- MANE Select transcript
- ENST00000649591.1NM_001134888.3
- Locus type
- gene with protein product
- Very high
- Confident
- Low
- Very low
Reference genomeGRCh38hg38
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How RTL1 is laid out
- Coding sequence
- Untranslated region
- Intron
- Direction of transcription
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 5.4 kb of the gene's 24 kb; 4,077 of those bases code for the protein.
Traits linked to RTL1
The Human Phenotype Ontology lists these as features of the rare conditions RTL1 can cause. Each trait's page lists the other genes linked to it.
Abnormality of head or neck
- Abnormal facial shape
- Abnormally large tongue
- Chin with horizontal crease
- Deep philtrum
- Depressed nasal bridge
- Hairy forehead
- Prominent forehead
- Receding chin
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- Short neck
- Short opening between the eyelids
- Abnormally small head
- Asymmetry of the posterior head
- Bifid uvula
- Big lower jaw
- Broad forehead
- Chin with H-shaped crease
- Cleft palate
- Decreased facial expression
- Decreased size of maxilla
- Dense bone of skull base
- Downturned corners of mouth
- Drooling
- Exaggerated cupid's bow
- Extra bones within cranial sutures
- Eye folds
- Frontal bossing
- Full cheeks
- Full lips
- High palate
- Little lower jaw
- Long philtrum
- Narrow eyelid opening
- Narrow forehead
- Narrow mouth
- Narrow opening between the eyelids
- Nasal tip, upturned
- Open mouth
- Prominent area between the eyebrows
- Redundant neck skin
- Relatively large head
- Short philtrum
- Tented mouth
- Wide nasal bridge
- Wide nose
- Wider-than-typical soft spot of skull
Abnormality of limbs
- Short foot
- Small hand
- Limb undergrowth
- Abnormality of the outermost finger bone
- Acromicria
- Bowed shankbone
- Broad outermost finger bone
- Coxa valga
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- Curvature of digit
- Curvature of middle finger
- Flexion contracture of finger
- Front half of foot turns inward
- Interphalangeal joint contracture of finger
- Inward turned thumb
- Long toe
- Metaphyseal spurs
- Overlapping toe
- Prominent heel bone
- Short neck of thighbone
- Short shinbone
- Shortened 1st long bone of hand
- Single transverse palmar crease
- Small end part of innermost shankbone
- Thumb contracture
- Ulnar deviation of the wrist
- Upper limb undergrowth
- Wrist flexion contracture
Abnormality of the musculoskeletal system
- Coat hanger sign of ribs
- Double-Jointed
- Low muscle tone
- Small chest
- Abnormality of the skeletal system
- Flexed joint that cannot be straightened
- Funnel chest
- Hypoplastic iliac wing
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- Kyphoscoliosis
- Low muscle tone, in neonatal onset
- Abnormality of the costochondral junction
- Absent glenoid fossa
- Anterior rib cupping
- Decreased muscle tone in infant
- Long collarbone
- Missing part of vertebrae
- Narrow chest
- Permanent flexion of the finger or toe
- Prominent sternum
- Scoliosis
- Short ribs
- Small shoulder blade
- Small wings of the pelvic girdle
- Speckled calcifications in end part of bone
- Wavy ribs
Abnormality of the cardiovascular system
- Abnormal aortic arch morphology
- Abnormality of the heart
- An opening in the wall separating the top two chambers of the heart
- Avascular peripheral retina
- Enlarged and thickened heart muscle
- Enlarged liver and spleen
- Hole in heart wall separating two lower heart chambers
- Increased blood pressure in blood vessels of lungs
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Growth abnormality
- Growth delay as children
- Prenatal growth deficiency
- Birth weight > 90th percentile
- Growth delay
- Obesity
- Short stature
- Small for gestational age
- Truncal obesity
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External links
Gene records
Transcript
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.
- The Human Phenotype Ontology, release 2026-09-01: the traits linked to the gene. Find out more at hpo.jax.org.
Cite this page
Dante Labs. (n.d.). RTL1 gene: retrotransposon Gag like 1. Retrieved 16 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/rtl1
Dante Labs. RTL1 gene: retrotransposon Gag like 1 [Internet]. [cited 16 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/rtl1
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