Gametogenetin binding protein 1 (pseudogene)

Gametogenetin binding protein 1 (pseudogene) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GGNBP1 gene.

GGNBP1
Identifiers
Aliases	GGNBP1, gametogenetin binding protein 1 (pseudogene)
External IDs	OMIM: 609495; GeneCards: GGNBP1; OMA:GGNBP1 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 6 (human) Band 6p21.31 Start 33,540,046 bp End 33,589,026 bp
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 449520 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000204188 n/a UniProt n a n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001005478 n/a RefSeq (protein) n/a n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 6: 33.54 – 33.59 Mb n/a PubMed search n/a
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Function

This gene is the ortholog of the mouse gametogenetin-binding protein 1 gene. In human, the open reading frame is disrupted by a nonsense mutation after 8-aa; consequently, this gene is currently considered to be a unitary pseudogene in human even though it is functional in other mammals. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2009].

Further reading

• Zhou Y, Zhao Q, Bishop CE, Huang P, Lu B (March 2005). "Identification and characterization of a novel testicular germ cell-specific gene Ggnbp1". Mol. Reprod. Dev. 70 (3): 301–7. doi:10.1002/mrd.20214. PMID 15625700. S2CID 31851460.
• Talmud PJ, Drenos F, Shah S, Shah T, Palmen J, Verzilli C, Gaunt TR, Pallas J, Lovering R, Li K, Casas JP, Sofat R, Kumari M, Rodriguez S, Johnson T, Newhouse SJ, Dominiczak A, Samani NJ, Caulfield M, Sever P, Stanton A, Shields DC, Padmanabhan S, Melander O, Hastie C, Delles C, Ebrahim S, Marmot MG, Smith GD, Lawlor DA, Munroe PB, Day IN, Kivimaki M, Whittaker J, Humphries SE, Hingorani AD (November 2009). "Gene-centric association signals for lipids and apolipoproteins identified via the HumanCVD BeadChip". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 85 (5): 628–42. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.10.014. PMC 2775832. PMID 19913121.

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.