The CLCA gene family is a novel family of calcium-activated chloride channe
ls. Several family members have recently been cloned from different mammali
an species with distinct, highly tissue-specific expression patterns. Here,
we describe radiation hybrid mapping of the human CLCA2 and CLCA3 genes us
ing the Genebridge 4 panel. Both genes were mapped to adjacent loci on the
short arm of chromosome 1 (1p22-31), a region to which the human CLCA1 had
been assigned earlier. The results show clustering of all human CLCA family
members known so far despite their moderately low levels of sequence homol
ogy and their heterogeneous expression patterns.