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    Cytokine. 1999 Oct;11(10):729-35.

    FGF-19, a novel fibroblast growth factor with unique specificity for FGFR4.

    Xie MH, Holcomb I, Deuel B, Dowd P, Huang A, Vagts A, Foster J, Liang J, Brush J, Gu Q, Hillan K, Goddard A, Gurney AL.

    Department of Molecular Biology, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.

    We have identified a novel fibroblast growth factor, FGF-19, the most distant member of the FGF family described to date. FGF-19 is a high affinity, heparin dependent ligand for FGFR4 and is the first member of the FGF family to show exclusive binding to FGFR4. Human FGF-19 maps to chromosome 11 q13.1, a region associated with an osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome of skeletal and retinal defects. FGF-19 message is expressed in several tissues including fetal cartilage, skin, and retina, as well as adult gall bladder and is overexpressed in a colon adenocarcinoma cell line. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.

    PMID: 10525310 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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