Zinc finger protein ZFAT
The ZFAT gene encodes a transcription factor that is associated with autoimmune thyroid disease such as Hashimoto thyreoiditis and Grave disease.
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Shirasawa S et al. (2004) SNPs in the promoter of a B cell-specific antisense transcript, SAS-ZFAT, determine susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disease.
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Sakai K et al. (2001) Identification of susceptibility loci for autoimmune thyroid disease to 5q31-q33 and Hashimoto's thyroiditis to 8q23-q24 by multipoint affected sib-pair linkage analysis in Japanese.
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Tsunoda T et al. (2010) Immune-related zinc finger gene ZFAT is an essential transcriptional regulator for hematopoietic differentiation in blood islands.
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NCBI article
NCBI 57623
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OMIM.ORG article
Omim 610931
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Update: Aug. 14, 2020