Description: Homo sapiens ring finger protein 111 (RNF111), transcript variant 4, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_001270530): The protein encoded by this gene is a nuclear RING-domain containing E3 ubiquitin ligase. This protein interacts with the transforming growth factor (TGF) -beta/NODAL signaling pathway by promoting the ubiquitination and proteosomal degradation of negative regulators, like SMAD proteins, and thereby enhances TGF-beta target-gene transcription. As a modulator of the nodal signaling cascade, this gene plays a critical role in the induction of mesoderm during embryonic development. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2012]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr15:59,377,786-59,389,618 Size: 11,833 Total Exon Count: 5 Strand: + Coding Region Position: hg19 chr15:59,377,982-59,387,099 Size: 9,118 Coding Exon Count: 5
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Genetic Association Studies of Complex Diseases and Disorders
Genetic Association Database (archive): RNF111 CDC HuGE Published Literature: RNF111 Positive Disease Associations: Echocardiography
, Hip Related Studies:
Echocardiography Ramachandran S Vasan et al. BMC medical genetics 2007, Genome-wide association of echocardiographic dimensions, brachial artery endothelial function and treadmill exercise responses in the Framingham Heart Study., BMC medical genetics.
[PubMed 17903301]
In hypothesis-generating GWAS of echocardiography, ETT and BA vascular function in a moderate-sized community-based sample, we identified several SNPs that are candidates for replication attempts and we provide a web-based GWAS resource for the research community.
Hip Douglas P Kiel et al. BMC medical genetics 2007, Genome-wide association with bone mass and geometry in the Framingham Heart Study., BMC medical genetics.
[PubMed 17903296]
The FHS 100K SNP project offers an unbiased genome-wide strategy to identify new candidate loci and to replicate previously suggested candidate genes for osteoporosis.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.