Full name: butyrophilin subfamily 1 member A1

Gene type: protein coding

RefSeq status: VALIDATED

Also known as: BT; BTN; BTN1

Summary: Butyrophilin is the major protein associated with fat droplets in the milk. It is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. It may have a cell surface receptor function. The human butyrophilin gene is localized in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I region of 6p and may have arisen relatively recently in evolution by the shuffling of exons between 2 ancestral gene families [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Expression: Low expression observed in reference dataset

Gene size: 10123bp

Exon count: 8