NPTN

Neuroplastin
Identifiers
SymbolsNPTN ; GP55; GP65; SDFR1; SDR1; np55; np65
External IDsOMIM: 612820 HomoloGene: 7531 GeneCards: NPTN Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez27020n/a
EnsemblENSG00000156642n/a
UniProtQ9Y639n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001161363n/a
RefSeq (protein)NP_001154835n/a
Location (UCSC)Chr 15:
73.85 – 73.93 Mb
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PubMed searchn/a

Neuroplastin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPTN gene.[1][2][3]

Neuroplastin is a type I transmembrane protein belonging to the Ig superfamily. The protein is believed to be involved in cell-cell interactions or cell-substrate interactions. The alpha and beta transcripts show differential localization within the brain.[3]

In 2014, in a study led by Dr. Sylvane Desrivières, of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry found that "teenagers who had a highly functioning NPTN gene performed better in intelligence tests"[4][5][6]

References

  1. Andersson B, Wentland MA, Ricafrente JY, Liu W, Gibbs RA (Jun 1996). "A "double adaptor" method for improved shotgun library construction". Anal Biochem 236 (1): 107–13. doi:10.1006/abio.1996.0138. PMID 8619474.
  2. Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, Muzny DM, Ding Y, Liu W, Ricafrente JY, Wentland MA, Lennon G, Gibbs RA (Jun 1997). "Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing". Genome Res 7 (4): 353–8. doi:10.1101/gr.7.4.353. PMC 139146. PMID 9110174.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: NPTN neuroplastin".
  4. Is intelligence written in the genes?
  5. Researchers Find Gene that Links Grey Matter with Intelligence
  6. Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents

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