Predicted funtional terms: GO | ChEA | Mouse Phenotype | Human Phenotype | KEA | KEGG
Most similar genes based on co-expression: Pearson correlation
Expression levels across tissues and cell lines: Tissue Expression | Cell Line Expression

Description: Defensins form a family of antimicrobial and cytotoxic peptides made by neutrophils. Defensins are short, processed peptide molecules that are classified by structure into three groups: alpha-defensins, beta-defensins and theta-defensins. All beta-defensin genes are densely clustered in four to five syntenic chromosomal regions. Chromosome 8p23 contains at least two copies of the duplicated beta-defensin cluster. This duplication results in two identical copies of defensin, beta 104, DEFB104A and DEFB104B, in head-to-head orientation. This gene, DEFB104A, represents the more centromeric copy. NCBI Entrez Gene | GeneCards | Harmonizome