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Gene information for TNFSF12 (Homo sapiens)
(Information is obtained from NCBI Gene database)
Entrez gene ID8742
Official gene symbolTNFSF12
Full nametumor necrosis factor (ligand) superfamily, member 12
Aliases,APO3L,DR3LG,MGC129581,MGC20669,TWEAK,
Gene summaryThe protein encoded by this gene is a cytokine that belongs to the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) ligand family. This protein is a ligand for the FN14/TWEAKR receptor. This cytokine has overlapping signaling functions with TNF, but displays a much wider tissue distribution. This cytokine, which exists in both membrane-bound and secreted forms, can induce apoptosis via multiple pathways of cell death in a cell type-specific manner. This cytokine is also found to promote proliferation and migration of endothelial cells, and thus acts as a regulator of angiogenesis. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Some transcripts skip the last exon of this gene and continue into the second exon of the neighboring TNFSF13 gene; such read-through transcripts are contained in GeneID 407977, TNFSF12-TNFSF13. [provided by RefSeq]
LocationChromosome: 17   Locus: 17p13
Gene position7452375 - 7461207  Map Viewer
Gene orientationplus
Gene size8833 bp
Gene sequence
OMIM ID602695