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Epo
Gene Detail
 Symbol
Name
ID
Epo
erythropoietin
MGI:95407
STS D5Mit46
Feature Type protein coding gene
Genetic Map
Chromosome 5
76.50 cM, cytoband G
Detailed Genetic Map ± 1 cM


Mapping data(36)
Sequence Map
Chr5:137482259-137533242 bp, - strand
From VEGA annotation of GRCm38

  50984 bp   ±  kb flank

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Vertebrate
homology
HomoloGene:624  Vertebrate Homology Class
1 human; 1 mouse; 1 rat; 1 chimpanzee; 1 rhesus macaque; 1 cattle; 1 dog; 2 zebrafish

Protein SuperFamily: erythropoietin
Gene Tree: Epo

Human
homologs
Human Homolog EPO, erythropoietin
NCBI Gene ID 2056
neXtProt AC  NX_P01588
Human Synonyms  EP, MVCD2
Human Chr (Location)  7q22; chr7:100318423-100321323 (+)  GRCh37.p10
Disease Associations  (1) Diseases Associated with Human EPO
Alleles
and
phenotypes
All alleles(22) : Targeted(4) Gene trapped(17) Transgenic(1)
 
Homozygotes for a targeted null mutation exhibit reduced primitive erythropoiesis and die around embryonic day 13 due to impaired fetal liver erythropoiesis.
 
Gene Ontology
(GO)
classifications
All GO classifications: (36 annotations)
Process angiogenesis, apoptotic process, ...
Component extracellular region, extracellular space
Function erythropoietin receptor binding, eukaryotic cell surface binding, ...
External Resources: FuncBase
Expression Literature Summary: (39 records)
Data Summary: Results (88)    Tissues (27)    Images (3)
Theiler Stages: 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28
Assay TypeResults
RNA in situ 2
Western blot 7
RT-PCR 79
cDNA source data(7)
External Resources: Allen Institute   GEO   ArrayExpress
Molecular
reagents
All nucleic(30) Genomic(9) cDNA(7) Primer pair(10) Other(4)
Microarray probesets(1)
Other database
links
VEGA Gene ModelOTTMUSG00000021944 (Evidence)
Ensembl Gene ModelENSMUSG00000029711 (Evidence)
Entrez Gene13856 (Evidence)
UniGene349116
DFCITC1761920
DoTSDT.101312972
Consensus CDS ProjectCCDS39332.1
International Mouse Knockout Project StatusEpo
Sequences
Representative SequencesLengthStrain/SpeciesFlank
genomic OTTMUSG00000021944 VEGA Gene Model | MGI Sequence Detail 50984 C57BL/6J ±  kb
transcript OTTMUST00000052085 VEGA | MGI Sequence Detail 1583 Not Applicable 
polypeptide OTTMUSP00000024625 VEGA | MGI Sequence Detail 192 Not Applicable 

For the selected sequences
All sequences(33) RefSeq(2) UniProt(3)
Polymorphisms All PCR and RFLP(10) : PCR(4) RFLP(6) SNPs(4 from dbSNP Build 128)
Protein-related
information
ResourceIDDescription
InterPro IPR003013 Erythropoietin
InterPro IPR001323 Erythropoietin/thrombopoeitin
InterPro IPR019767 Erythropoietin/thrombopoeitin, conserved site
InterPro IPR012351 Four-helical cytokine, core
InterPro IPR009079 Four-helical cytokine-like, core
Protein Ontology PR:000007141 erythropoietin
References (Earliest) J:8454 McDonald JD, et al., Cloning, sequencing, and evolutionary analysis of the mouse erythropoietin gene. Mol Cell Biol. 1986 Mar;6(3):842-8
(Latest) J:193997 Liu Q, et al., Hypoxia-inducible factor regulates hepcidin via erythropoietin-induced erythropoiesis. J Clin Invest. 2012 Dec 3;122(12):4635-44
All references(162)
Other
accession IDs
MGD-MRK-9566

Contributing Projects:
Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO), MouseCyc
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last database update
05/22/2013
MGI 5.13
The Jackson Laboratory