Mu hemoglobin

hemoglobin, mu
Identifiers
Symbol	HBM
Alt. symbols	HBAP2
Entrez	3042
HUGO	4826
OMIM	609639
RefSeq	NM_001003938
UniProt	Q6B0K9
Other data
Locus	Chr. 16 p13.3

Mu hemoglobin is a protein which in humans is encoded by the HBM gene.^[1][2][3] The order of genes is: 5' - zeta - pseudozeta - mu - pseudoalpha-1 - alpha-2 - alpha-1 - theta1 - 3'.

References

1. Higgs DR, Vickers MA, Wilkie AO, Pretorius IM, Jarman AP, Weatherall DJ (April 1989). "A review of the molecular genetics of the human alpha-globin gene cluster". Blood 73 (5): 1081–104. PMID 2649166.
2. Fischel-Ghodsian N, Nicholls RD, Higgs DR (November 1987). "Unusual features of CpG-rich (HTF) islands in the human alpha globin complex: association with non-functional pseudogenes and presence within the 3' portion of the zeta gene". Nucleic Acids Res. 15 (22): 9215–25. doi:10.1093/nar/15.22.9215. PMC 306463. PMID 2825132.
3. Goh SH, Lee YT, Bhanu NV, et al. (August 2005). "A newly discovered human alpha-globin gene". Blood 106 (4): 1466–72. doi:10.1182/blood-2005-03-0948. PMC 1895206. PMID 15855277.