Tetraspanin 18 Explained

Tetraspanin 18 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TSPAN18 gene.^[1]

Further reading

• Trynka G, Zhernakova A, Romanos J, Franke L, Hunt KA, Turner G, Bruinenberg M, Heap GA, Platteel M, Ryan AW, de Kovel C, Holmes GK, Howdle PD, Walters JR, Sanders DS, Mulder CJ, Mearin ML, Verbeek WH, Trimble V, Stevens FM, Kelleher D, Barisani D, Bardella MT, McManus R, van Heel DA, Wijmenga C . Coeliac disease-associated risk variants in TNFAIP3 and REL implicate altered NF-kappaB signalling . Gut . 58 . 8 . 1078–83 . August 2009 . 19240061 . 10.1136/gut.2008.169052 . 17111427 .
• Rose JE, Behm FM, Drgon T, Johnson C, Uhl GR . Personalized smoking cessation: interactions between nicotine dose, dependence and quit-success genotype score . Mol. Med. . 16 . 7–8 . 247–53 . 2010 . 20379614 . 2896464 . 10.2119/molmed.2009.00159 .
• Yuan J, Jin C, Qin HD, Wang J, Sha W, Wang M, Zhang Y, Zhang F, Li J, Li J, Yu S, Qi S, Shugart YY . Replication study confirms link between TSPAN18 mutation and schizophrenia in Han Chinese . PLOS ONE . 8 . 3 . e58785 . 2013 . 23505562 . 3591373 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0058785 . 2013PLoSO...858785Y . free .
• Zhang B, Li DX, Lu N, Fan QR, Li WH, Feng ZF . Lack of Association between the TSPAN18 Gene and Schizophrenia Based on New Data from Han Chinese and a Meta-Analysis . Int J Mol Sci . 16 . 6 . 11864–72 . May 2015 . 26016498 . 4490419 . 10.3390/ijms160611864 . free .
• Wu L, Chen F, Wei J, Shen Y, Xu Q . Study of the tetraspanin 18 association with schizophrenia in a Han Chinese population . Psychiatry Res . 241 . 263–6 . July 2016 . 27208512 . 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.03.057 . 4825701 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: Tetraspanin 18. 2018-05-04.