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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 May 23;1839(12):1463–1476. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.05.014

Table 1.

KMTs, KDMs and histones mutations and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) observed in diseases.

Protein Mutation SNP
KMTs KMT1B/SUV39H2 Diabetes, lung cancer
KMT1C/G9a/EHMT2 Breast cancer, chronic hepatitis B, colorectal cancer
KMT1D/GLP/EHMT1 Kleefstra syndrome, ganglioglioma Beast cancer
KMT1E/SETDB1 Autism, plausible candidate gene for melanoma susceptibility
KMT2A / MLL Gastric adenocarcinoma, liver cancer, bladder cancer, MM, AML, HCC ALL
KMT2B/MLL2* HCC, OSCC, bladder urothelial carcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal carcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, ccRCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma
KMT2C / MLL3 Kleefstra syndrome, MB, AML, colorectal cancer, gastric adenocarcinoma, liver cancer, bladder cancer, bile duct cancer, highly agressive tumors, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, glioblastoma, HNSCC, ccRCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, prostate cancer, MM, HCC Breast cancer, gastric cancer
KMT2D/MLL4* Kabuki syndrome, MB, MDS, CLL, prostate cancer, CRPC, bladder cancer, DLBCL, ETP-ALL, FL, MCL, ccRCC, AML, breast adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal carcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma, childhood B-cell ALL, MM, HCC, OSCC
KMT2E/MLL5 CRPC, breast cancer
KMT2F/SETD1A Gastric adenocarcinoma
KMT2G/SETD1B CRPC
KMT2H/ASH1L Lung cancer (cell lines), CRPC, high grade glioma
KMT3A/SETD2 Renal carcinoma, high-grade gliomas, ccRCC, ETP-ALL, synovial sarcoma, bladder urothelial carcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal carcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, AML, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma
KMT3B / NSD1 AML, Sotos syndrome, Weaver syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, ALL, bladder urothelial carcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal carcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, ccRCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma, OSCC
KMT3E/SMYD3 colorectal cancer, breast cancer, HCC, NSCLC, ESCC
KMT3F/WHSC1L1 / NSD3 MM
KMT3G / WHSC1 / NSD2 / MMSET MCL, MM, pediatric ALL, low grade glioma
KMT4 / DOT1L Osteoarthritis of the hip, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and pubertal height velocity
KMT6 / EZH2 Prostate cancer, DLBCL, FL, myelofibrosis, myeloid malignancies, T-ALL, HCC, MDS, CLL, AML, ETP-ALL, CMML, Weaver syndrome, bladder urothelial carcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, ccRCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma Cholangiocarcinoma, colorectal cancer, HCC, lung cancer, metastatic colorectal cancer
KMT8A/PRDM2/RIZ1 # Gastric carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma, colorectal carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, DLBCL Breast cancer, leukemia, bone mineral density, lung cancer, Parkinson’s disease
KMT8B/PRDM9 Lung cancer (cell lines)
KDMs KDM1A/LSD1 Lymphoblastic leukemia, medulloblastoma
KDM2B/FBXL10 Gastric adenocarcinoma
KDM3A / JHDM2A / JMJD1A MB
KDM3C/JMJD1C Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
KDM4A/JMJD2A Breast cancer
KDM4B/JMJD2B Lung cancer (cell lines)
KDM4C/JMJD2C MB Autism spectrum disorders, esophageal cancer
KDM5A/JARID1A# MB, AML Ankylosing spondylitis
KDM5B/JARID1B/PLU1 MB, breast cancer
KDM5C/JARID1C/SMCX Renal carcinoma, ccRCC, autism spectrum disorder, X-linked mental retardation, bladder urothelial carcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal carcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma, OSCC, high grade glioma
KDM6A / UTX lung cancer (cell lines), Leukemia, Kabuki syndrome, MB, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, renal carcinoma, ccRCC, adenoid cystic carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, CMML, AML, MM, ESCC, SCLC, T-ALL, colorectal adenocarcinoma, endometrial adenocarcinoma, glioblastoma, NSCLC, breast adenocarcinoma, HNSCC, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma, childhood B-cell ALL, CRPC Graves’ disease
KDM6B/JMJD3 MB, near haploid lymphoblastic leukemia
KDM7A/ JHDM1D / KIAA1718 MB
KDM7B/PHF8 X-linked mental retardation
Histones H1.2 Bladder urothelial carcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal carcinoma, GBM, HNSCC, ccRCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, ovarian serous carcinoma, NHLs, DLBCL
H1.3 DLBCL
H1.4 Adenoid cystic carcinomas, DLBCL
H2A.1 Adenoid cystic carcinomas, DLBCL
H3.1 Paediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas, non- brainstem paediatric glioblastomas, DLBCL, OSCC, osteosarcoma
H3.3 Childhood ALL, paediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and non-Brainstem glioblastomas, anasplastic astrocytomas, high-grade thalamic gliomas from young adults, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, giant cell tumor of bone, chondroblastoma
H3.5 GBM, HNSCC, lung adenocarcinoma and SCC, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma
H4 DLBCL, HCC

Abbreviations: AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia), ccRCC (clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma), CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia), CML (Chronic Myeloid Leukemia), CMML (Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia), CRPC (Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer), DLBCL (Diffuse Large B Cell Lynphoma), ESCC (Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma), ETP-ALL (Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia), FL (Follicular Lymphoma), GBM (glioblastoma multiforme), HCC (Hepatocellular Carcinoma), HNSCC (Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma), MB (Medulloblastoma), MCL (Mantle Cell Lymphoma), MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome), MM (Multiple Myeloma), NHLs (Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), NSCLC (Non Small Cell Lung Cancer), OSCC (Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma), SCLC (Small Cell Lung Cancer), SCC (Squamous Cell Carcinoma).

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KMT2B/MLL2 gene ID 9757 is located on chromosome 19, KMT2D/MLL4 gene ID 8085 is located on chromosome 12;

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indicates coding SNP. This table is illustrative of variants observed in the literature and might not be fully inclusive. We apologize to all those whose work we could not depict or cite due to space limitation.