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Mouse (GRCm39)
Description

interleukin 21 receptor [Source:MGI Symbol;Acc:MGI:1890475]

Gene Synonyms

NILR

Location

Chromosome 7: 125,202,601-125,232,756 forward strand.

GRCm39:CM001000.3

About this gene

This gene has 4 transcripts (splice variants), 131 orthologues, 8 paralogues and is associated with 52 phenotypes.

Transcript IDNamebpProteinTranslation IDBiotypeCCDSUniProt MatchFlags
ENSMUST00000033000.9Il21r-2012556529aaENSMUSP00000033000.7
 
Protein coding
CCDS21823Q3TAI3 Q9JHX3 Ensembl CanonicalGENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS P2TSL:1
ENSMUST00000206103.3Il21r-2022459268aaENSMUSP00000145966.2
 
Protein coding
Q6PEU8 GENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS ALT2TSL:1
ENSMUST00000417710.1Il21r-204262452aaENSMUSP00000196073.1
 
Nonsense mediated decay
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ENSMUST00000206234.2Il21r-203182263aaENSMUSP00000145772.2
 
Nonsense mediated decay
A0A0U1RP02 TSL:1