Mucin-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MUC7 gene.[3][4] In animals, the MUC7 gene is found in most placental mammals, but not marsupials.[5]

Human variations

Humans carry either a five or six tandem repeat version of the gene. In other primates, the number of repeats found is 4-5 for gorillas, 5 for chimpanzees, 6-7 for orangutans, 8-10 for macaques, 10-11 for baboons and 11-12 for green monkeys.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000171195Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. ^ Bobek LA, Liu J, Sait SN, Shows TB, Bobek YA, Levine MJ (February 1996). "Structure and chromosomal localization of the human salivary mucin gene, MUC7". Genomics. 31 (3): 277–82. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0049. PMID 8838308.
  4. ^ "Entrez Gene: MUC7 mucin 7, secreted".
  5. ^ a b Xu D, Pavlidis P, Thamadilok S, Redwood E, Fox S, Blekhman R, Ruhl S, Gokcumen O (August 2016). "Recent evolution of the salivary mucin MUC7". Scientific Reports. 6: 31791. Bibcode:2016NatSR...631791X. doi:10.1038/srep31791. PMC 4997351. PMID 27558399. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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