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CDR2 (gene)

protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ17860729 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cerebellar degeneration-related protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CDR2 gene. It promotes cerebellar Purkinje cell survival through downregulation of c-Myc, indicating that CDR2 is a protooncogene.

See also

Cerebellar degeneration-related protein 1

References

Further reading

External links

CDR2 human gene location in the UCSC Genome Browser.

CDR2 human gene details in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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“CDR2 (gene)” enters the record as protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what CDR2, gene and protein-coding can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “CDR2 (gene)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.