Species Human Entrez 2488 | Human Mouse Ensembl ENSG00000131808 | |
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Aliases FSHB, HH24, follicle stimulating hormone beta subunit, Follitropin subunit beta External IDs MGI: 95582 HomoloGene: 430 GeneCards: FSHB | ||
Follitropin subunit beta also known as follicle-stimulating hormone beta subunit (FSH-B) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FSHB gene. Alternative splicing results in two transcript variants encoding the same protein.
Function
The pituitary glycoprotein hormone family includes follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, chorionic gonadotropin, and thyroid-stimulating hormone. All of these glycoproteins consist of an identical alpha subunit and a hormone-specific beta subunit. This gene encodes the beta subunit of follicle-stimulating hormone. In conjunction with luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone induces egg and sperm production.
References
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