Gene: XRN2

Alternate names for this Gene: -

Gene Summary: This gene encodes a 5'-3' exonuclease that promotes transcription termination at cotranscriptional cleavage sites. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms.

Gene is located in Chromosome: 20

Location in Chromosome : 20p11.22

Description of this Gene: 5'-3' exoribonuclease 2

Type of Gene: protein-coding

rs62217959 in XRN2 gene and Finding of Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin PMID 30595370 2019 Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power.

PMID 27863252 2016 The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease.