Entrez gene ID | | 9001 |
Official gene symbol | | HAP1 |
Full name | | huntingtin-associated protein 1 |
Aliases | | ,HAP2,HIP5,HLP,hHLP1, |
Gene summary | | Huntington's disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of striatal neurons, is caused by an expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the HD protein huntingtin. This gene encodes a protein that interacts with huntingtin, with two cytoskeletal proteins (dynactin and pericentriolar autoantigen protein 1), and with a hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate. The interactions with cytoskeletal proteins and a kinase substrate suggest a role for this protein in vesicular trafficking or organelle transport. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene. [provided by RefSeq] |
Location | | Chromosome: 17 Locus: 17q21.2-q21.3 |
Gene position | | 39890898 - 39878891 Map Viewer |
Gene orientation | | minus |
Gene size | | 12008 bp |
Gene sequence |
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OMIM ID | | 600947 |
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