IGHG4

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IGHG4
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Aliases IGHG4 , immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma 4 (G4m marker)
External IDs OMIM: 147130; GeneCards: IGHG4; OMA:IGHG4 - orthologs
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SpeciesHumanMouse
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Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 105.62 – 105.63 Mb n/a
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Ig gamma-4 chain C region is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IGHG4 gene. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000211892 Ensembl, May 2017
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. "Entrez Gene: IGHG4 immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma 4 (G4m marker)".

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