Afamin

AFM
Identifiers
Aliases	AFM, ALB2, ALBA, ALF, afamin
External IDs	OMIM: 104145; MGI: 2429409; HomoloGene: 881; GeneCards: AFM; OMA:AFM - orthologs
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 4 (human)
End	73,504,001 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 5 (mouse)
End	90,701,402 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	right lobe of liver; ; testicle; ; kidney tubule; ; human kidney; ; glomerulus; ; metanephric glomerulus; ; tibialis anterior muscle; ; renal medulla; ; mucosa of ileum; ; fundus;
	Top expressed in
	left lobe of liver; ; human kidney; ; right kidney; ; proximal straight tubule; ; renal pelvis; ; fetal liver hematopoietic progenitor cell; ; renal calyx; ; sexually immature organism; ; migratory enteric neural crest cell; ; gallbladder;
	More reference expression data
	More reference expression data
Gene ontology
Molecular function	vitamin E binding; protein binding;
Cellular component	extracellular region; blood microparticle; extracellular exosome; extracellular space;
Biological process	vitamin transport; transport; protein transport; protein stabilization; protein transport within extracellular region;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	173
	280662
	ENSG00000079557
	ENSMUSG00000029369
	P43652
	O89020
	NM_001133
	NM_145146
	NP_001124
	NP_660128
	Wikidata
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Afamin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AFM gene.^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000079557 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ ^a ^b ^c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000029369 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ Lichenstein HS, Lyons DE, Wurfel MM, Johnson DA, McGinley MD, Leidli JC, Trollinger DB, Mayer JP, Wright SD, Zukowski MM (Aug 1994). "Afamin is a new member of the albumin, alpha-fetoprotein, and vitamin D-binding protein gene family". J Biol Chem. 269 (27): 18149–54. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(17)32429-8. PMID 7517938.
^ "Entrez Gene: AFM afamin".