Prospero homeobox protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PROX1gene.[5][6] The Prox1 gene is critical for the development of multiple
tissues. Prox1 activity is necessary and sufficient to specify a lymphatic endothelial cell fate in endothelial progenitors located in the embryonic veins.[7]
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