Dpy-19 Like Protein 1 (DPY19L1)

Although both DPY19L1 and DPY19L2 share homology to the C. elegans gene DPY-19 and are within a set of related LCRs, these two genes are not recent duplicates of each other.DPY19L1 does not show high sequence identity with the region of LCR7C that contains DPY19L2 .

Along with DPY19L1 and DPY19L2, homology searches identified two other human genes that have amino acid identity to the C. elegans gene DPY-19. These two genes, DPY19L3 and DPY19L4, are located on Chromosomes 19q13.11 and 8q22.1, respectively, and do not reside in any segmental duplications. Similar to DPY19L1 and DPY19L2, the functions of these genes are uncharacterized.