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FURIN wt Allele
Human FURIN wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 15q26.1 and is approximately 15 kb in length. This allele, which encodes furin protein, plays a role in the cleavage of proteins containing paired basic amino-acid residues to release mature proteins from their precursor proteins. (NCI Thesaurus)
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