Progranulin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A precursor protein to granulin.

    "Haploinsufficiency of the human progranulin gene, GRN, causes frontotemporal dementia."

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"Haploinsufficiency of the human progranulin gene, GRN, causes frontotemporal dementia."

Etymology

From pro- + granulin.

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