FAM87A Gene

Name family with sequence similarity 87, member A
Description Predicted to be located in membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Mar 2025]
Summary
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Proteins FA87A_HUMAN
NCBI Gene ID 157693
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Predicted Functions View FAM87A's ARCHS4 Predicted Functions.
Co-expressed Genes View FAM87A's ARCHS4 Predicted Functions.
Expression in Tissues and Cell Lines View FAM87A's ARCHS4 Predicted Functions.

Functional Associations

FAM87A has 132 functional associations with biological entities spanning 6 categories (organism, functional term, phrase or reference, disease, phenotype or trait, chemical, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA) extracted from 8 datasets.

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Dataset Summary
COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores cellular components containing FAM87A protein from the COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Diseases disease perturbations changing expression of FAM87A gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Diseases dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Gene Perturbations gene perturbations changing expression of FAM87A gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Gene Perturbations dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Kinase Perturbations kinase perturbations changing expression of FAM87A gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Kinase Perturbations dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Small Molecules small molecule perturbations changing expression of FAM87A gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Small Molecules dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Viral Infections virus perturbations changing expression of FAM87A gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Viral Infections dataset.
Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles cell lines with high or low copy number of FAM87A gene relative to other cell lines from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset.
TISSUES Curated Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores tissues with high expression of FAM87A protein from the TISSUES Curated Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores dataset.