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Gene

TNRC18

trinucleotide repeat containing 18

Summary

Cytogenetic location
7p22.1
Coordinates
Chromosome 7: 5,306,811–5,423,834 (GRCh38)
Exons
30 exons across 117 kb
Protein
2,968 amino acids
Also known as
CAGL79, TNRC18A, KIAA1856
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000430969.6NM_001080495.3
Locus type
Protein-coding

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads TNRC18 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How TNRC18 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 7, with a bracket where TNRC18 sits. TNRC18 and 11 genes near it on chromosome 7, from 4,865,323 to 5,865,322.Chromosome 77p22.1p22.3p22.2p22.1p21.3p21.2p21.1p15.3p15.2p15.1p14.3p14.2p14.1p13p12.3p12.2p12.1p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.21q11.22q11.23q21.11q21.12q21.13q21.2q21.3q22.1q22.2q22.3q31.1q31.2q31.31q31.32q31.33q32.1q32.2q32.3q33q34q35q36.1q36.2q36.35 Mb5.2 Mb5.4 Mb5.6 Mb5.8 MbRADIL: 4,797,055–4,883,716, reverse strandRADILMMD2: 4,892,248–4,959,230, reverse strandMMD2RBAK-RBAKDN: 4,983,718–5,073,221, forward strandRBAK-RBAKDNRBAK: 5,045,821–5,069,491, forward strandRBAKRBAKDN: 5,072,125–5,073,223, forward strandRBAKDNWIPI2: 5,190,182–5,233,855, forward strandWIPI2SLC29A4: 5,274,369–5,307,194, forward strandSLC29A4TNRC18: 5,306,811–5,423,834, reverse strandTNRC18FBXL18: 5,431,335–5,513,814, reverse strandFBXL18ACTB: 5,526,409–5,563,902, reverse strandACTBFSCN1: 5,592,806–5,606,656, forward strandFSCN1RNF216: 5,620,047–5,781,696, reverse strandRNF216Diagram of TNRC18: 30 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 7Exon 30: 5,306,811–5,308,312, 1,502 basesExon 29: 5,308,875–5,308,949, 75 basesExon 28: 5,309,132–5,309,368, 237 basesExon 27: 5,312,503–5,313,863, 1,361 basesExon 26: 5,314,984–5,315,148, 165 basesExon 25: 5,315,956–5,316,072, 117 basesExon 24: 5,320,318–5,320,426, 109 basesExon 23: 5,320,532–5,320,607, 76 basesExon 22: 5,321,073–5,321,190, 118 basesExon 21: 5,324,214–5,324,355, 142 basesExon 20: 5,325,096–5,325,248, 153 basesExon 19: 5,332,622–5,333,049, 428 basesExon 18: 5,345,562–5,345,810, 249 basesExon 17: 5,351,819–5,352,094, 276 basesExon 16: 5,356,916–5,357,276, 361 basesExon 15: 5,359,398–5,359,569, 172 basesExon 14: 5,361,594–5,361,722, 129 basesExon 13: 5,361,897–5,362,033, 137 basesExon 12: 5,362,650–5,362,825, 176 basesExon 11: 5,370,375–5,371,364, 990 basesExon 10: 5,374,055–5,374,484, 430 basesExon 9: 5,376,034–5,376,224, 191 basesExon 8: 5,376,847–5,376,993, 147 basesExon 7: 5,377,371–5,377,576, 206 basesExon 6: 5,377,922–5,378,024, 103 basesExon 5: 5,387,672–5,389,336, 1,665 basesExon 4: 5,390,485–5,390,628, 144 basesExon 3: 5,394,440–5,394,595, 156 basesExon 2: 5,421,060–5,421,489, 430 basesExon 1: 5,423,441–5,423,834, 394 bases3025201510515′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 10.8 kb of the gene's 117 kb; 8,907 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing TNRC18

45Hard

How hard TNRC18 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

Much of TNRC18 sits where short reads can miss or misplace a change.

What adds to it: the share of TNRC18's exons in each kind of hard region

  • Mappability10%
  • Homology43%
  • Shared with chrY0%
  • Reference coverage0%
  • Repeats6.9%
  • GC content77%

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.). TNRC18 gene: trinucleotide repeat containing 18. Retrieved 19 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/tnrc18

Vancouver

Dante Labs. TNRC18 gene: trinucleotide repeat containing 18 [Internet]. [cited 19 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/tnrc18

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