MAGEA2

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MAGEA2
Identifiers
Aliases MAGEA2 , CT1.2, MAGE2, MAGEA2A, MAGE family member A2
External IDs OMIM: 300173; HomoloGene: 18781; GeneCards: MAGEA2; OMA:MAGEA2 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
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RefSeq (mRNA)

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RefSeq (protein)

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Location (UCSC) Chr X: 152.75 – 152.75 Mb n/a
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Melanoma-associated antigen 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAGEA2 gene. [3] [4] [5]

This gene is a member of the MAGEA gene family. The members of this family encode proteins with 50 to 80% sequence identity to each other. The promoters and first exons of the MAGEA genes show considerable variability, suggesting that the existence of this gene family enables the same function to be expressed under different transcriptional controls. The MAGEA genes are clustered at chromosomal location Xq28. They have been implicated in some hereditary disorders, such as dyskeratosis congenita. This gene has two identical copies at different loci. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been identified for this gene. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000268606 Ensembl, May 2017
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. van der Bruggen P, Traversari C, Chomez P, Lurquin C, De Plaen E, Van den Eynde B, Knuth A, Boon T (Jan 1992). "A gene encoding an antigen recognized by cytolytic T lymphocytes on a human melanoma". Science. 254 (5038): 1643–7. doi:10.1126/science.1840703. PMID   1840703.
  4. Rogner UC, Wilke K, Steck E, Korn B, Poustka A (Mar 1996). "The melanoma antigen gene (MAGE) family is clustered in the chromosomal band Xq28". Genomics. 29 (3): 725–31. doi:10.1006/geno.1995.9945. PMID   8575766.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: MAGEA2 melanoma antigen family A, 2".

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