early placenta insulin-like peptide (EPIL, placentin,insulin-like peptide 4, [Contains: Early placenta insulin-like peptide B chain; Early placenta insulin-like peptide A chain], INSL4)

Function

• role in trophoblast development (putative)
• role in regulation of bone formation (putative)

Compartment

secreted

Expression

• expressed in placenta, uterus & fetal perichondrium
• expression increased early placentas

Pathology

• expression increased in molar pregnancies & diminished in choriocarcinoma cells

More general terms

• secreted protein

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/600910
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q14641.html