XB-FEAT-6071380

tpm2

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nomenclature changes

05/29/2017 Human name has changed for Entrez Gene: 7169. From tropomyosin 2 (beta) to tropomyosin 2

summary

This gene encodes beta-tropomyosin, a member of the actin filament binding protein family, and mainly expressed in slow, type 1 muscle fibers. Mutations in this gene can alter the expression of other sarcomeric tropomyosin proteins, and cause cap disease, nemaline myopathy and distal arthrogryposis syndromes. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.[provided by RefSeq, Mar 2009]

OMIM disease

cap disease, nemaline myopathy distal arthrogryposis syndromes.