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Alpha-fetoprotein related gene (ARG): a new member of the albumin gene family that is no longer functional in primates.
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- The Placental Steroid Hypothesis of Human Brain Evolution.Evolutionary anthropology · 2025Review
- Variations in the Human Serum Albumin Gene: Molecular and Functional Aspects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- AM-1241 CB2 Receptor Agonist Attenuates Inflammation, Apoptosis and Stimulate Progenitor Cells in Bile Duct Ligated Rats.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Diagnosis, Phenotype, and Molecular Genetics of Congenital Analbuminemia.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- The alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) third domain: a search for AFP interaction sites of cell cycle proteins.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2016Article
- Review of the putative cell-surface receptors for alpha-fetoprotein: identification of a candidate receptor protein family.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2011Review
- The mouse alpha-albumin (afamin) promoter is differentially regulated by hepatocyte nuclear factor 1α and hepatocyte nuclear factor 1β.DNA and cell biology · 2011Article
- Zhx2 and Zbtb20: novel regulators of postnatal alpha-fetoprotein repression and their potential role in gene reactivation during liver cancer.Seminars in cancer biology · 2011Review
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Abstract
The serum albumin gene family is comprised of albumin, alpha-fetoprotein, alpha-albumin (afamin), and the more distantly related Vitamin D binding protein. These genes arose from a common ancestor through a series of duplication events, are expressed primarily in the liver and tightly linked in all species where this has been investigated. Here, we describe a fifth member of the albumin gene family that we have named Alpha-fetoprotein Related Gene (ARG) since it exhibits greatest similarity to this family member. ARG is activated in the liver perinatally, but is expressed at very low levels. The ARG gene is present and intact in the mouse, rat, dog and horse genomes. In contrast, the ARG gene in human, chimpanzee, rhesus monkey, and marmoset contains a number of mutations common to all four species, indicating that this gene has been an inactive pseudogene in primates for at least 40 million years. Low expression and aberrant splicing of the ARG gene in the mouse liver suggests that ARG may have less functional significance than other members of the serum albumin gene family even in species where it is still intact.
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