Apoa2 - apolipoprotein A2 Gene

Also known as APOAII; Apo-AII; ApoA-II

About Apoa2

Summary

Enables Cholesterol transfer activity. Involved in several processes, including animal organ regeneration; response to estrogen; and response to glucocorticoid. Predicted to be located in extracellular space. Predicted to be part of chylomicron; spherical high-density lipoprotein particle; and very-low-density lipoprotein particle. Biomarker of hyperthyroidism. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in familial hypercholesterolemia. Orthologous to human APOA2 (Apolipoprotein A2). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]