This gene is intronless and encodes a member of the nucleosome assembly protein (NAP) family. This gene is linked closely to a region of genes responsible for several X-linked cognitive disability syndromes. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]
Forensic Context
A study in humans analyzing heart tissue from patients with various structural heart diseases identified the NAP1L3 as a significantly up-regulated gene expression marker (mean fold change 1.8298, adjusted p-value 4.7889 × 10^-15) within a 62-gene signature that achieved approximately 95% classification accuracy for distinguishing diseased from control samples [Fajarda et al. DOI:10.1186/s13040-020-00217-8]. A separate bioinformatics analysis of human platelet transcriptomes from acute myocardial infarction patients identified the NAP1L3 as a hub gene in the sky-blue module related to energy metabolism in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients [Zhang et al. DOI:PMC8129354].