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Gene

TAFA5

TAFA chemokine like family member 5

Summary

Cytogenetic location
22q13.32
Coordinates
Chromosome 22: 48,489,553–48,751,932 (GRCh38)
Exons
4 exons across 262.4 kb
Protein
132 amino acids
Also known as
TAFA-5
Previous symbols
FAM19A5
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000402357.6NM_001082967.3
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads TAFA5 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How TAFA5 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 22, with a bracket where TAFA5 sits. TAFA5 and 0 genes near it on chromosome 22, from 48,120,743 to 49,120,742.Chromosome 2222q13.32p13p12p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q12.1q12.2q12.3q13.1q13.2q13.31q13.32q13.3348.2 Mb48.4 Mb48.6 Mb48.8 Mb49 MbTAFA5: 48,489,553–48,751,932, forward strandTAFA5Diagram of TAFA5: 4 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 22Exon 1: 48,489,553–48,489,704, 152 basesExon 2: 48,646,597–48,646,746, 150 basesExon 3: 48,707,717–48,707,844, 128 basesExon 4: 48,749,839–48,751,932, 2,094 bases12345′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 2.5 kb of the gene's 262.4 kb; 399 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing TAFA5

15Moderate

How hard TAFA5 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Some of TAFA5's exons sit where short reads can miss or misplace a change.

What adds to it: the share of TAFA5's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Shared with chrY0%
  • Reference coverage0%
  • Repeats3%
  • GC content69%

A Dante Labs score from our own research, built on NIST's Genome in a Bottle maps of hard-to-sequence regions.How it's scored

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.). TAFA5 gene: TAFA chemokine like family member 5. Retrieved 20 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/tafa5

Vancouver

Dante Labs. TAFA5 gene: TAFA chemokine like family member 5 [Internet]. [cited 20 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/tafa5

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