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. 2012 Jan 5;2:111. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00111

Table 3.

Hormones preferentially expressed in pituitary gland.

Tag sequences Tag frequency
Description (UniGene cluster, GenBank accession no.) Chromosomal location
Parietal cortex Hypothalamus Pituitary gland
AAGTGTCGCCG 0 4 14963 Growth hormone (Mm.343934, NM_008117) 11
AAGTGTTGCCG 0 0 28 EST growth hormone (Mm.343934, AVI 73676)
CGCAGCGACGA 0 0 218 EST growth hormone (Mm.343934, BB749308)
AAAGTGTCGCC 0 0 40 EST growth hormone (Mm.343934, CB236481)
GCACCACGGGC 0 0 12 Growth hormone releasing hormone receptor (Mm.89928, XM_132546) 6
CTGTGTGGCCA 2 2 347 Glycoprotein hormones, alpha subunit (Mm.l361, NM_009889) 4
GTCCGAGTACT 0 0 75 Luteinizing hormone beta (Mm.5706l, NM_008497) 7
CTTGGGTGCAA 0 0 1307 Prolactin (Mm.1270, NM_011164) 13
CACTGAAAACT 0 0 107 EST prolactin (Mm.1270, BB025395)
AACAGCCAGGG 0 0 23 EST prolactin (Mm.1270, CB231671)
GGCGAGCTGAT 0 0 1496 Proopiomelanocortin-alpha (Mm.153634, BC061215) 12
GAGCACTTCCG 0 0 21 Proopiomelanocortin-alpha (Mm.277996, M30489)
TTACTCCTTAT 0 0 49 Thyroid stimulating hormone, beta subunit (Mm.110730, NM_009432) 3

All tags are expressed at higher levels in the pituitary gland compared to other two regions, p < 0.05.