The prolactin and growth hormone families: Pregnancy-specific hormones/cytokines at the maternal-fetal interface

Table 3 Members of the primate PRL and GH gene families

Member	Abbreviation	Human GenBank Accession No.	Rhesus Monkey GenBank Accession No.
Prolactin family member
Prolactin	PRL	NM_000948	U09018
Growth hormone family members*
Growth hormone-N	GH-N	NM_000515	L16556
Chorionic somatomammotropin-L	CS-L, rhCS3	NM_001318	L16554
Chorionic somatomammotropin-A	CS-A, rhCS1	NM_001317	L16552
Growth hormone variant	GH-V	NM_002059	U02293
Chorionic somatomammotropin-B	CS-B, rhCS2	NM_020991	L16553

*Please note that it is difficult to precisely assign orthologs for the human and rhesus monkey CS genes and that multiple transcripts have been identified for each human GH family member. GenBank accession numbers are only presented for transcript variant 1.

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