| 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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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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If available, associations are ranked by standardized value
| Dataset | Summary | |
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| 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. | |