protein C20orf203 (C20orf203)

Compartment

cytoplasm

Expression

• expressed most abundantly in the brain at protein level
• present in cortex, cerebellum & midbrain
• found in neurons
• also expressed in testis

Pathology

• elevated expression detected in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease

Genetics

• originated from non-coding DNA sequences (insertion of repeat elements especially Alu)
• seems to exists only in human

More general terms

• evolutionary divergent human protein

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=284805
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q8NBC4.html