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Zinc finger protein 142
Introduction
Zinc finger protein 142 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF142 gene. [1]
Function
Function
The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the Kruppel family of C2H2-type zinc finger proteins. It contains 31 C2H2-type zinc fingers and may be involved in transcriptional regulation. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene.
Further reading
Further reading
This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.