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Assignment of the human TYRP (brown) locus to chromosome region 9p23 by nonradioactive in situ hybridization.

The TYRP (brown) locus determines pigmentation and coat color in the mouse. The human homolog of the TYRP locus has been recently identified and shown to encode a 75-kDa transmembrane melanosomal glycoprotein called gp75. The gp75 glycoprotein is homologous to tyrosinase, an enzyme involved in the synthesis of melanin, forming a family of tyrosinase-related proteins. A genomic clone of human gp75 was used to map the human TYRP locus to chromosome 9, region 9p23, by nonradioactive fluorescent in situ hybridization. Specificity of hybridization was tested with a genomic fragment of human tyrosinase that mapped to a distinct site on 11q21. The 9p region has been reported to be nonrandomly altered in human melanoma, suggesting a role for the region near the TYRP locus in melanocyte transformation.[1]

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  1. Assignment of the human TYRP (brown) locus to chromosome region 9p23 by nonradioactive in situ hybridization. Murty, V.V., Bouchard, B., Mathew, S., Vijayasaradhi, S., Houghton, A.N. Genomics (1992) [Pubmed]
 
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