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DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 2
Identifiers
Symbol(s) DGCR2; IDD; DGS-C; DKFZp686I1730; KIAA0163; LAN; SEZ-12
External IDs OMIM: 600594 MGI892866 HomoloGene31292
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 9993 13356
Ensembl ENSG00000070413 n/a
Uniprot P98153 n/a
Refseq NM_005137 (mRNA)
NP_005128 (protein)
NM_010048 (mRNA)
NP_034178 (protein)
Location Chr 22: 17.4 - 17.49 Mb n/a
Pubmed search [1] [2]

DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 2, also known as DGCR2, is a human gene. The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI website is run by The Jackson Laboratory. HomoloGene, a tool of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI is a system for automated detection of homologs (similarity attributable to descent The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a powerful Federated search engine or Web portal that allows users to search many discrete Health sciences Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent UniProt is the uni versal prot ein resource a central repository of Protein data created by combining Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles History See also History of genetics The existence of genes was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884 who in the 1860s studied inheritance [1]

Deletions of the 22q11. 2 have been associated with a wide range of developmental defects (notably DiGeorge syndrome, velocardiofacial syndrome, conotruncal anomaly face syndrome and isolated conotruncal cardiac defects) classified under the acronym CATCH 22. The DGCR2 gene encodes a novel putative adhesion receptor protein, which could play a role in neural crest cells migration, a process which has been proposed to be altered in DiGeorge syndrome. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b Entrez Gene: DGCR2 DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 2.

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