Cav1.3

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cav1.3 also known as the calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L type, alpha 1D subunit (CACNA1D), is a human gene.A gene is a unit of heredity in a living organism. It normally resides on some stretches of DNA and RNA that codes for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living things depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains. Genes hold the information to build and maintain an organism's cells and pass genetic traits to offspring, although some organelles (e.g. mitochondria) are self-replicating and are not coded for by the organism's DNA.