Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
Melanophilin is a carrier protein which in humans is encoded by the MLPH gene .[ 5] [ 6] alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.
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