Harmonizome 3.0

melanoma antigen family A10

This gene is a member of the MAGEA gene family. The members of this family encode proteins with 50 to 80% sequence identity to each other. The promoters and first exons of the MAGEA genes show considerable variability, suggesting that the existence of this gene family enables the same function to be expressed under different transcriptional controls. The MAGEA genes are clustered at chromosomal location Xq28. They have been implicated in some hereditary disorders, such as dyskeratosis congenita. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Read-through transcription also exists between this gene and the downstream melanoma antigen family A, 5 (MAGEA5) gene.[provided by RefSeq, Oct 2011]

MAGEA10-MAGEA5 readthrough

This locus represents naturally occurring read-through transcription between the neighboring MAGEA10 (melanoma antigen family A, 10) and MAGEA5 (melanoma antigen family A, 5) genes on chromosome X. The read-through transcript is predicted to encode the downstream gene product. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2011]