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WBSCR17

Putative polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-like protein 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WBSCR17 gene.[1][2][3]

This gene encodes an N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase, which has 97% sequence identity to the mouse protein. This gene is deleted in Williams syndrome, a multisystem developmental disorder caused by the deletion of contiguous genes at 7q11.23.[3]

References

References

  1. Merla G, Ucla C, Guipponi M, Reymond A (Jun 2002). “Identification of additional transcripts in the Williams-Beuren syndrome critical region”. Hum Genet. 110 (5): 429–38. doi:10.1007/s00439-002-0710-x. PMID 12073013.
  2. Nakamura N, Toba S, Hirai M, Morishita S, Mikami T, Konishi M, Itoh N, Kurosaka A (Mar 2005). “Cloning and expression of a brain-specific putative UDP-GalNAc: polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase gene”. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 28 (3): 429–33. doi:10.1248/bpb.28.429. PMID 15744064.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: WBSCR17 Williams-Beuren syndrome chromosome region 17”.
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