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HOXD4

Protein-coding gene

HOXD4
Identifiers
Aliases	HOXD4, HHO.C13, HOX-5.1, HOX4, HOX4B, Hox-4.2, homeobox D4
External IDs	OMIM: 142981; MGI: 96208; HomoloGene: 7773; GeneCards: HOXD4; OMA:HOXD4 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 2 (human)[1] Band 2q31.1 Start 176,151,550 bp[1] End 176,153,226 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 2 (mouse)[2] Band 2 C3|2 44.13 cM Start 74,542,273 bp[2] End 74,559,504 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in body of uterus right uterine tube corpus epididymis testicle right ovary left ovary left uterine tube tail of epididymis human kidney left adrenal cortex Top expressed in cervical vertebral column thoracic vertebral column tail of embryo lumbar subsegment of spinal cord enteric nervous system lactiferous gland genital tubercle embryo transitional epithelium of urinary bladder uterus More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function DNA-binding transcription factor activity sequence-specific DNA binding DNA binding RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific Cellular component nucleus nucleoplasm cell junction Biological process transcription, DNA-templated regulation of transcription, DNA-templated multicellular organism development transcription by RNA polymerase II positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II skeletal system development anterior/posterior pattern specification embryonic skeletal system morphogenesis Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3233 15436 Ensembl ENSG00000170166 ENSMUSG00000101174 UniProt P09016 P10628 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_014621 NM_010469 RefSeq (protein) NP_055436 NP_034599 Location (UCSC) Chr 2: 176.15 – 176.15 Mb Chr 2: 74.54 – 74.56 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Homeobox protein Hox-D4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXD4 gene.^[5][6][7]

This gene belongs to the homeobox family of genes. The homeobox genes encode a highly conserved family of transcription factors that play an important role in morphogenesis in all multicellular organisms. Mammals possess four similar homeobox gene clusters, HOXA, HOXB, HOXC and HOXD, located on different chromosomes, consisting of 9 to 11 genes arranged in tandem. This gene is one of several homeobox HOXD genes located at 2q31-2q37 chromosome regions. Deletions that removed the entire HOXD gene cluster or 5' end of this cluster have been associated with severe limb and genital abnormalities. The protein encoded by this gene may play a role in determining positional values in developing limb buds. Alternatively spliced variants have been described but their full length nature has not been determined.^[7]

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• HOXD4+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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