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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ludger Klein-Hitpass
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-36575 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Human molecular genetics 20120613 18
The Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) region in 15q11q13 harbours a cluster of imprinted genes expressed from the paternal chromosome only. Whereas loss of function of the SNORD116 genes appears to be responsible for the major features of PWS, the role of the other genes is less clear. One of these genes is C15orf2, which has no orthologues in rodents, but appears to be under strong positive selection in primates. C15orf2 encodes a 1156 amino acid protein with six nuclear localisation sequences. By pr ...[more]