Alanine and arginine-rich domain-containing protein

AARD
Identifiers
Aliases	AARD, C8orf85, alanine and arginine rich domain containing protein
External IDs	MGI: 2181621; GeneCards: AARD
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 8 (human)
End	116,944,487 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 15 (mouse)
End	51,909,118 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	left testis; ; right testis; ; gastric mucosa; ; gonad; ; testicle; ; urinary bladder; ; muscle layer of sigmoid colon; ; fundus; ; prefrontal cortex; ; islet of Langerhans;
	Top expressed in
	Gonadal ridge; ; seminiferous tubule; ; vestibular membrane of cochlear duct; ; vestibular sensory epithelium; ; motor neuron; ; lumbar subsegment of spinal cord; ; outer renal medulla; ; yolk sac; ; transitional epithelium of ureter; ; cumulus cell;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Orthologs
Databases	NCBI: entry; OMA: entry
	441376
	239435
	ENSG00000205002
	ENSMUSG00000068522
	Q4LEZ3
	Q811W1
	NM_001025357
	NM_175503
	NP_001020528
	NP_780712
	Wikidata
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AARD (Alanine and Arginine rich domain containing protein) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AARD gene.

Function

AARD has been implicated in spermatogenesis in mice.^[5]

1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000205002 – Ensembl, May 2017
1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000068522 – Ensembl, May 2017
↑ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
↑ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
↑ Svingen, Terje; Beverdam, Annemiek; Verma, Pali; Wilhelm, Dagmar; Koopman, Peter (2007). "Aard is specifically up-regulated in Sertoli cells during mouse testis differentiation". The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 51 (3): 255–258. doi:10.1387/ijdb.062219ts. ISSN 0214-6282. PMID 17486547.