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Piwi-like protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PIWIL1 gene.This gene encodes a member of the PIWI subfamily of Argonaute proteins evolutionarily conserved proteins containing both PAZ and Piwi motifs that play important roles in stem cell self-renewal RNA silencing and translational regulation in diverse organisms. The encoded protein may play a role as an intrinsic regulator of the self-renewal capacity of germline and hematopoietic stem cells.