Alternative titles; symbols
HGNC Approved Gene Symbol: H2AC17
Cytogenetic location: 6p22.1 Genomic coordinates (GRCh38): 6:27,892,699-27,893,185 (from NCBI)
For background information on histones, histone gene clusters, and the H2A histone family, see HIST1H2AA (613499).
Dobner et al. (1991) identified a gene encoding a member of the H2A class of histones and designated it H2A.1.
By analysis of a YAC contig from 6p22-p21.3, Albig and Doenecke (1997) characterized a second cluster of 16 histone genes that included H2A.1, which they designated H2A/n, located 2 Mb centromeric to the major histone gene cluster.
By genomic sequence analysis, Marzluff et al. (2002) determined that the histone gene cluster on chromosome 6p22-p21, which they called histone gene cluster-1 (HIST1), contains 55 histone genes, including HIST1H2AM.
See HIST1H2AA (613499) for functional information on H2A histones.
Albig, W., Doenecke, D. The human histone gene cluster at the D6S105 locus. Hum. Genet. 101: 284-294, 1997. [PubMed: 9439656] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050630]
Dobner, T., Wolf, I., Mai, B., Lipp, M. A novel divergently transcribed human histone H2A/H2B gene pair. DNA Seq. 1: 409-413, 1991. [PubMed: 1768865] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.3109/10425179109020799]
Marzluff, W. F., Gongidi, P., Woods, K. R., Jin, J., Maltais, L. J. The human and mouse replication-dependent histone genes. Genomics 80: 487-498, 2002. [PubMed: 12408966] [Full Text: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0888754302968503]