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                   Genetic Sequence Data Bank
                         December 15 2016

               NCBI-GenBank Flat File Release 217.0

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 198565475 loci, 224973060433 bases, from 198565475 reported sequences

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LOCUS       HUMALB2       477 bp ds-DNA         
    PRI       15-JUN-1989
DEFINITION  Human albumin gene, exon 15 and
 3' flank.
ACCESSION   M13076
KEYWORDS    albumin; serum protein.
SEGMENT     2 of 2
SOURCE      Human fibroblast DNA, library of H.
Hamada and T.Kakunaga.
  ORGANISM  Homo sapiens
            Eukaryota; Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Theria;
            Eutheria; Primates; Haplorhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae.
REFERENCE   1  (bases 1 to 477)
  AUTHORS   Urano,Y., Watanabe,K., Sakai,M. and Tamaoki,T.
  TITLE     The human albumin gene: Characterization of the 5' and 3' flanking
            regions and the polymorphic gene transcripts
  JOURNAL   J. Biol. Chem. 261, 3244-3251 (1986)
  STANDARD  full automatic
FEATURES             Location/Qualifiers
     exon            <1..164
                     /number=15
                     /gene="ALB"
     exon            <1..325
                     /number=15
                     /gene="ALB"
     polyA_signal    143..148
                     /gene="ALB"
     polyA_site      164
                     /note="major alternative"
     polyA_signal    298..303
                     /gene="ALB"
     polyA_site      325
                     /note="minor alternative"
     source          1..477
                     /organism="Homo sapiens"
BASE COUNT      171 a     71 c     73 g    162 t
ORIGIN      About 17 kb after segment 1; Chromsome 4q11-q13.
        1 cctaccatga gaataagaga aagaaaatga agatcaaaag cttattcatc tgtttttctt
       61 tttcgttggt gtaaagccaa caccctgtct aaaaaacata aatttcttta atcattttgc
      121 ctcttttctc tgtgcttcaa ttaataaaaa atggaaagaa tctaatagag tggtacagca
      181 ctgttatttt tcaaagatgt gttgctatcc tgaaaattct gtaggttctg tggaagttcc
      241 agtgttctct cttattccac ttcggtagag gatttctagt ttcttgtggg ctaattaaat
      301 aaatcattaa tactcttcta agttatggat tataaacatt caaaataata ttttgacatt
      361 atgataattc tgaataaaag aacaaaaacc atggtatagg taaggaatat aaaacatggc
      421 ttttacctta gaaaaaacaa ttctaaaatt catatggaat caaaaaagag cctgcag
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