FSH

Aliases
  • FSH
  • FSH-B
  • FSH-beta
  • FSHB
  • Follitropin beta chain
  • Follitropin subunit beta
  • follicle stimulating hormone, beta polypeptide
  • follicle-stimulating hormone beta subunit
  • follitropin, beta chain
Description
The pituitary glycoprotein hormone family includes follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, chorionic gonadotropin, and thyroid-stimulating hormone. All of these glycoproteins consist of an identical alpha subunit and a hormone-specific beta subunit. This gene encodes the beta subunit of follicle-stimulating hormone. In conjunction with luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone induces egg and sperm production. Alternative splicing results in two transcript variants encoding the same protein. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008] Defects in FSHB are a cause of isolated follicle-stimulating hormone deficiency. Selective follicle-stimulating hormone deficiency is an uncommon cause of infertility, producing amenorrhea and hypogonadism in women and oligo or azoospermia with normal testosterone levels in normally virilised men. FSHB belongs to the glycoprotein hormones subunit beta family. There are two transcript variants from alternative splicing that each encode the same protein.
Attributes
QA State
Curated
Type
Protein
HGNC Name
FSHB
Certifications
  • None
QA State for Ovary
Curated

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