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Literature associating ANGPTL8 and breast sarcoma

ANGPTL8 [ENSP00000479969]

Angiopoietin-like protein 8; Hormone that acts as a blood lipid regulator by regulating serum triglyceride levels (PubMed:22569073, PubMed:22809513, PubMed:23150577). May be involved in the metabolic transition between fasting and refeeding: required to direct fatty acids to adipose tissue for storage in the fed state (By similarity). ; Belongs to the ANGPTL8 family.

Synonyms:  ANGPTL8,  ANGPTL8p,  hANGPTL8,  K7EIY2,  K7EJY6 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt

The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.