protein_function: Possible candidate as a tumor suppressor gene ofneuroblastoma. May play an important role in preventing cells fromentering the final stage (G1,S) of the transformation process.
Differential screening-selected gene aberrative in neuroblastoma (DAN) is a member of the DAN family of secreted glycoproteins that are putative BMP antagonists. The NBL1 gene, also known as DAN, is originally cloned from a normal rat fibroblast cDNA library by a differential screening method. The human DAN gene is mapped to chromosome 1p36.13-p36. It is found that the DAN gene possesses a tumor suppressive activity when overexpressed in v-src transformed cells.