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Automatically associated channels: Kir2.1 , Kir3.1

Title: Human G-protein-coupled inwardly rectifying potassium channel (GIRK1) gene (KCNJ3): localization to chromosome 2 and identification of a simple tandem repeat polymorphism.

Authors: M Stoffel, R Espinosa, K L Powell, L H Philipson, M M Le Beau, G I Bell

Journal, date & volume: Genomics, 1994 May 1 , 21, 254-6

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8088798

Abstract
The gene encoding the human G-protein-coupled inwardly rectifying potassium channel designated GIRK1 (gene symbol, KCNJ3) was mapped to chromosome 2 by analyzing its segregation in a panel of human-hamster somatic cell hybrids. This assignment was confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization to metaphase chromosomes, and the gene was further localized to band 2q24.1. A highly informative simple tandem repeat DNA polymorphism of the form (CA)n was identified and used to localize KCNJ3 within the genetic map of the long arm of chromosome 2.