[Hepatocytes normally express Cx26 and Cx32 as their major gap junction genes, but HepG2 cells, a hepatoma cell line, are deficient in gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) based on the down-regulation of Cx26 and aberrant localization of Cx32.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE