Gene or accession: CG18144 Gene annotation error Gene CG18144 has incorrect exon/intron structure. Comments: The region reported to code for the 15 aa gene product CG18144 contains the bHLH (basic helix-loop-helix) Hand gene, equally similar to human paralogues HAND1 and HAND2. As predicted by FGenes, using one of the CG18144 splice sites, a 174 aa protein is assembled from 4 exons, with a poorly conserved (but similar size) N-terminus, a highly conserved bHLH domain and a highly conserved C-terminal Hand-specific second motif (KGRTWWPxVWAxEL). Predicted protein: >FGENES MFKNSVALTCEYSTMYYNSIYNTSNMFDMKHSESQVQQQIYNTSHLGYVPTSNTRIVKKR NTANKKERRRTQSINNAFSYLREKIPNVPTDTKLSKIKTLKLAILYINYLVNVLDGDLDP KGGFRAELKPVSRKICSEKKHCLKSEIQNVPLSTKGRTGWPQDVWASELIPEHN from AE003628: complement 1 \- 1 CDSl 55866 \- 55946 1 \- 2 CDSi 57559 \- 57714 1 \- 3 CDSi 57948 \- 58144 1 \- 4 CDSf 58294 \- 58384 Kind regards, Jurg Spring