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Mouse (GRCm39)
Description

melanocortin 4 receptor [Source:MGI Symbol;Acc:MGI:99457]

Gene Synonyms

Fatboy, Pkcp

Location

Chromosome 18: 66,990,775-66,993,577 reverse strand.

GRCm39:CM001011.3

About this gene

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 226 orthologues, 18 paralogues and is associated with 44 phenotypes.

Transcript IDNamebpProteinTranslation IDBiotypeCCDSUniProt MatchFlags
ENSMUST00000057942.4Mc4r-2012803332aaENSMUSP00000054776.3
 
Protein coding
CCDS29316P56450 Ensembl CanonicalGENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS P1TSL:NA