DMRT1

Doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor 1
Identifiers
Symbols DMRT1; DMT1
External IDs OMIM602424 MGI1354733 HomoloGene9280 GeneCards: DMRT1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 1761 50796
Ensembl ENSG00000137090 ENSMUSG00000024837
UniProt Q9Y5R6 Q19AV2
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_021951 NM_015826.5
RefSeq (protein) NP_068770 NP_056641.2
Location (UCSC) Chr 9:
0.84 – 0.97 Mb
Chr 19:
25.58 – 25.68 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor 1, also known as DMRT1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the DMRT1 gene.[1][2][3]

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Function

This gene is found in a cluster with two other members of the gene family, having in common a zinc finger-like DNA-binding motif (DM domain). The DM domain is an ancient, conserved component of the vertebrate sex-determining pathway that is also a key regulator of male development in flies and nematodes, and is found to be the key sex-determining factor in chickens.[4] This gene exhibits a gonad-specific and sexually dimorphic expression pattern, just like the related doublesex gene in fruit flies. Defective testicular development and XY feminization occur when this gene is hemizygous.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: DMRT1 doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor 1". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1761. 
  2. ^ Raymond CS, Shamu CE, Shen MM, Seifert KJ, Hirsch B, Hodgkin J, Zarkower D (February 1998). "Evidence for evolutionary conservation of sex-determining genes". Nature 391 (6668): 691–5. doi:10.1038/35618. PMID 9490411. 
  3. ^ Raymond CS, Parker ED, Kettlewell JR, Brown LG, Page DC, Kusz K, Jaruzelska J, Reinberg Y, Flejter WL, Bardwell VJ, Hirsch B, Zarkower D (June 1999). "A region of human chromosome 9p required for testis development contains two genes related to known sexual regulators". Hum. Mol. Genet. 8 (6): 989–96. doi:10.1093/hmg/8.6.989. PMID 10332030. 
  4. ^ Smith CA, Roeszler KN, Ohnesorg T, Cummins DM, Farlie PG, Doran TJ, Sinclair AH (August 2009). "The avian Z-linked gene DMRT1 is required for male sex determination in the chicken". Nature 461 (7261): 267–71. doi:10.1038/nature08298. PMID 19710650. 

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This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.