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Mouse (GRCm39)
Description

myostatin [Source:MGI Symbol;Acc:MGI:95691]

Gene Synonyms

Gdf8

Location

Chromosome 1: 53,100,799-53,107,240 forward strand.

GRCm39:CM000994.3

About this gene

This gene has 3 transcripts (splice variants), 129 orthologues, 31 paralogues and is associated with 62 phenotypes.

Transcript IDNamebpProteinTranslation IDBiotypeCCDSUniProt MatchFlags
ENSMUST00000027269.7Mstn-2012705376aaENSMUSP00000027269.6
 
Protein coding
CCDS14950O08689 Q540E2 Ensembl CanonicalGENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS P1TSL:1
ENSMUST00000191197.3Mstn-2022512189aaENSMUSP00000140249.2
 
Protein coding
A0A087WQL8 GENCODE BasicTSL:5
ENSMUST00000395363.1Mstn-2032705125aaENSMUSP00000173726.1
 
Nonsense mediated decay
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