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Gene information for CENPA (Homo sapiens)
(Information is obtained from NCBI Gene database)
Entrez gene ID1058
Official gene symbolCENPA
Full namecentromere protein A
Aliases,CENP-A,
Gene summaryCentromeres are the differentiated chromosomal domains that specify the mitotic behavior of chromosomes. CENPA encodes a centromere protein which contains a histone H3 related histone fold domain that is required for targeting to the centromere. CENPA is proposed to be a component of a modified nucleosome or nucleosome-like structure in which it replaces 1 or both copies of conventional histone H3 in the (H3-H4)2 tetrameric core of the nucleosome particle. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq]
LocationChromosome: 2   Locus: 2p24-p21
Gene position27008882 - 27017457  Map Viewer
Gene orientationplus
Gene size8576 bp
Gene sequence
OMIM ID117139