SFTPA2( Human )
surfactant protein A2
Alias
COLEC5|PSAP|PSP-A|PSPA|SFTP1|SFTPA2B|SP-2A|SP-A|SPA2|SPAII
This gene is one of several genes encoding pulmonary-surfactant associated proteins (SFTPA) located on chromosome 10. Mutations in this gene and a highly similar gene located nearby, which affect the highly conserved carbohydrate recognition domain, are associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The current version of the assembly displays only a single centromeric SFTPA gene pair rather than the two gene pairs shown in the previous assembly which were thought to have resulted from a duplication. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009].