Gene
SALL4
spalt like transcription factor 4
- HGNC 15924↗(opens in a new tab)
- Ensembl gene ENSG00000101115↗(opens in a new tab)
- NCBI Gene 57167↗(opens in a new tab)
Summary
- Cytogenetic location
- 20q13.2
- Coordinates
- Chromosome 20: 51,782,331–51,802,521 (GRCh38)
- Exons
- 4 exons across 20.2 kb
- Protein
- 1,053 amino acids
- Also known as
- dJ1112F19.1, ZNF797
- MANE Select transcript
- ENST00000217086.9NM_020436.5
- Locus type
- gene with protein product
- Very high
- Confident
- Low
- Very low
Reference genomeGRCh38hg38
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How SALL4 is laid out
- Coding sequence
- Untranslated region
- Intron
- Direction of transcription
- Known disease-causing sites
- Stretches short reads find hard
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 5.2 kb of the gene's 20.2 kb; 3,162 of those bases code for the protein.
How a genome test reads SALL4
33
positions in SALL4 where ClinVar classes a change as pathogenic or likely pathogenic
None of them falls in a region short reads find hard.
A whole genome covers all 20.2 kb of SALL4, introns included, not only the 5.2 kb of exons.
Traits linked to SALL4
The Human Phenotype Ontology lists these as features of the rare conditions SALL4 can cause. Each trait's page lists the other genes linked to it.
Abnormality of limbs
- Short thighbone
- Underdeveloped inner large forearm bone
- Underdeveloped outer large forearm bone
- Abnormal morphology of the radius
- Abnormality of the thumb
- Aplasia/Hypoplasia of the radius
- Short outermost bone of the thumb
- Short thumb
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- Small thenar eminence
- Absent thumb
- Broad bone of big toe
- Extra thumb
- Finger-like thumb
- Fused forearm bones
- Fused wrist bones
- Fusion of wrist bones
- Gap between 1st and 2nd toes
- Radial ray deficiency
- Short big toe
- Upper limb undergrowth
- Absent/small thumb
- Club feet
- Finger syndactyly
- Fused toes
- Missing outer large bone of forearm
- Preaxial polydactyly
- Short fingers or toes
- Short humerus
- Small pec muscle
- Talipes
- Absent long bone of hand
- Dropped arches
- Hypoplasia of deltoid muscle
- Limited elbow movement
- Limited movement of hinge joints
- Limited wrist movement
- Radial deviation of the hand
- Shortened 1st long bone of hand
- Small carpal bones
- Underdevelopment of upper limb muscles
- Webbed fingers or toes
Abnormality of the eye
- Abnormality of eye movement
- Abnormally small eyeball
- Cross-eyed
- Duane anomaly
- Oculomotor apraxia
- Oculomotor nerve palsy
- Deeply set eye
- Impaired ocular abduction
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- Impaired ocular adduction
- Optic disc coloboma
- Optic disc hypoplasia
- Paroxysmal tonic upgaze
- Visual impairment
- Abnormality of the pupil
- Absent iris
- Birth defect that causes a hole in the innermost layer at the back of the eye
- Cat eye
- Central heterochromia
- Clouding of the lens of the eye
- Compensatory head posture
- Cornea of eye less than 10mm in diameter
- Drooping upper eyelid
- Gustatory lacrimation
- Hypoplastic iris stroma
- Involuntary, rapid, rhythmic eye movements
- Lazy eye
- Marcus Gunn jaw winking synkinesis
- Notched pupil
- Wide-set eyes
- Hole in the back of the eye
- Impaired convergence
- Paralysis or weakness of muscles within or surrounding outer part of eye
Abnormality of head or neck
- Short opening between the eyelids
- Low hairline at back of neck
- Narrow opening between the eyelids
- Nasal tip, upturned
- Abnormally small head
- Asymmetry of the posterior head
- Cleft palate
- Drooping lower lip
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- Eye folds
- Eyelid spasm
- Facial asymmetry
- Frontal bossing
- Little lower jaw
- Short neck
- Skin tag in front of the ear
- Webbed neck
- Wide nasal bridge
- Abnormal nasopharynx morphology
- Bell's palsy
- Blockage of the rear opening of the nasal cavity
- Narrowing of the rear opening of the nasal cavity
- Palpebral fissure narrowing on adduction
Abnormality of the genitourinary system
- Abnormal rotation of the kidneys
- Crossed fused renal ectopia
- Horseshoe kidney
- Absent/small kidney
- Bladder diverticulum
- Abnormal kidney location
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Absent kidney
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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.
- ClinVar and the GIAB stratifications: known disease-causing sites, and the regions short reads find hard.
- The Human Phenotype Ontology, release 2026-09-01: the traits linked to the gene. Find out more at hpo.jax.org.
- Data release 2026.10.16-c6eea6bf.
Cite this page
Dante Labs. (n.d.). SALL4 gene: spalt like transcription factor 4. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/sall4
Dante Labs. SALL4 gene: spalt like transcription factor 4 [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/sall4
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