Description
The MYH16 gene, encoding a sarcomeric myosin heavy chain expressed in nonhuman primate masticatory muscles, is inactivated in humans. Stedman et al. (2004) [PubMed 15042088] hypothesized that the decrement in masticatory muscle size caused by the inactivation of MYH16 removed an evolutionary constraint on encephalization in early man.[supplied by OMIM]
Bioinformatics
| Uniprot |
Human
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| Product By Gene ID |
84176 |
| Alternate Names |
- FLJ22037
- MHC20
- MYH16P
- MYH5
- myosin, heavy chain 16 pseudogene
- myosin, heavy chain 16
- myosin, heavy polypeptide 16
- myosin, heavy polypeptide 5
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