Forkhead Box D4 Like Protein 4 (FOXD4L4)

FOXD4L4 Contains 1 fork-head DNA-binding domain. 5 FOXD4-like proteins (FOXD4L2, FOXD4L3, FOXD4L4, FOXD4L5 and FOXD4L6) are encoded by a strongly repeated region of the 9q12 chromosome region. They are very similar and it is therefore difficult to provide a clear and unambiguous protein sequence.

Members of the FOX family of transcription factors are regulators of embryogenesis and may play a role in human cancer. This gene lies in a region of chromosome 2 that surrounds the site where two ancestral chromosomes fused to form human chromosome 2. This region is duplicated elsewhere in the human genome, primarily in subtelomeric and pericentromeric locations, thus mutiple copies of this gene have been found.