C7orf11

Chromosome 7 open reading frame 11
Identifiers
Symbols C7orf11; ABHS; ORF20
External IDs OMIM609188 MGI1913558 HomoloGene32633 GeneCards: C7orf11 Gene
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 136647 66308
Ensembl ENSG00000168303 ENSMUSG00000012429
UniProt Q8TAP9 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_138701 NM_025479.5
RefSeq (protein) NP_619646 NP_079755.1
Location (UCSC) Chr 7:
40.17 – 40.17 Mb
Chr 13:
17.79 – 17.79 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

TTD non-photosensitive 1 protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C7orf11 gene.[1][2]. Patients with an inherited defect in both alleles of the gene suffer from trichothiodystrophy (TTD), a disease hallmarked by brittle hair and nails and usually by developmental difficulties as well. One patient carries a homozygous deletion of the whole gene area, which indicates that the gene is not essential for embryonic development. TTD can be diagnosed by the presence of tigertail-striped patterns in hair visible under polarised light microscopy, or biochemically by a reduced cystein content of the hairs. Only a minority of the TTD cases carry a TTDN1 defect: more frequently, the gene ERCC2 is mutated, which encodes a subunit of the protein complex TFIIH that is required for general transcription and for nucleotide excision repair of DNA damage.

References

  1. ^ Nakabayashi K, Fernandez BA, Teshima I, Shuman C, Proud VK, Curry CJ, Chitayat D, Grebe T, Ming J, Oshimura M, Meguro M, Mitsuya K, Deb-Rinker P, Herbrick JA, Weksberg R, Scherer SW (Feb 2002). "Molecular genetic studies of human chromosome 7 in Russell-Silver syndrome". Genomics 79 (2): 186–96. doi:10.1006/geno.2002.6695. PMID 11829489. 
  2. ^ "Entrez Gene: C7orf11 chromosome 7 open reading frame 11". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=136647. 

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