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Gene

RTL3

retrotransposon Gag like 3

Summary

Cytogenetic location
Xq21.1
Coordinates
Chromosome X: 78,656,068–78,659,328 (GRCh38)
Exons
2 exons across 3.3 kb
Protein
475 amino acids
Also known as
FLJ38865, Mar3, Mart3, ZHC5, SIRH9
Previous symbols
ZCCHC5
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000321110.2NM_152694.3
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads RTL3 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How RTL3 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
Chromosome X, with a bracket where RTL3 sits. RTL3 and 4 genes near it on chromosome X, from 78,157,698 to 79,157,697.Chromosome XXq21.1p22.33p22.32p22.31p22.2p22.13p22.12p22.11p21.3p21.2p21.1p11.4p11.3p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11.1q11.2q12q13.1q13.2q13.3q21.1q21.2q21.31q21.32q21.33q22.1q22.2q22.3q23q24q25q26.1q26.2q26.3q27.1q27.2q27.3q2878.2 Mb78.4 Mb78.6 Mb78.8 Mb79 MbCYSLTR1: 78,270,496–78,327,845, reverse strandCYSLTR1RTL3: 78,656,068–78,659,328, reverse strandRTL3LPAR4: 78,747,680–78,758,724, forward strandLPAR4P2RY10: 78,945,332–78,963,727, forward strandP2RY10GPR174: 79,144,664–79,175,318, forward strandGPR174Diagram of RTL3: 2 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome XExon 2: 78,656,068–78,658,648, 2,581 basesExon 1: 78,659,261–78,659,328, 68 bases215′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 2.6 kb of the gene's 3.3 kb; 1,428 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing RTL3

1Low

How hard RTL3 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats1.5%
  • GC content9.4%
  • Reference coverage0%

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.). RTL3 gene: retrotransposon Gag like 3. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/rtl3

Vancouver

Dante Labs. RTL3 gene: retrotransposon Gag like 3 [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/rtl3

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