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mettl2a

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nomenclature changes

21MAY2026

Synteny suggests that Xenopus mettl2b has been misidentified and is not a true ortholog of human METTL2B, but instead is the orthologous to human METTL2A.

The chick gene is also misnamed.

There does not appear to be a X. laevis S model for this gene.

NCBI orthology predictions confirm this!

Note that METTL2B is [so far] only annotated in primates.

Thus the genes in Xtrop and Xlaevis on chr10 and 9_10L have been renamed mettle2a.