Cancer Protein Description

This report provides a detailed description of a selected cancer protein with information collected from various sources, including UniProt, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC), and the Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology.


Protein Name: PDGFA
Gene Name: PDGFA
Protein Full Name: Platelet-derived growth factor subunit A
Alias: PDGF-1;Platelet-derived growth factor A chain;Platelet-derived growth factor alpha polypeptide
Mass (Da): 24043
Number AA: 211
UniProt ID: P04085
Locus ID: 5154
COSMIC ID: PDGFA
Gene location on chromosome: 7p22.3
Number of cancer specimens: 19989
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.2


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