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Most cancers showed weak to moderate cytoplasmic immunoreactivity. Several cases of prostate cancers were strongly stained. Lymphomas, endometrial, testicular, renal, gastric and liver cancers were generally negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
HAP1 (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
HAP2, hHLP1, HIP5, HLP
Description
Huntingtin-associated protein 1 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
Huntington's disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of striatal neurons, is caused by an expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the HD protein huntingtin. This gene encodes a protein that interacts with huntingtin, with two cytoskeletal proteins (dynactin and pericentriolar autoantigen protein 1), and with a hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate. The interactions with cytoskeletal proteins and a kinase substrate suggest a role for this protein in vesicular trafficking or organelle transport. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]