Tags: Protein.
WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 1 also known as WNK1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WNK1 gene. The human gene is located on short arm of chromosome 12 (12p13.3).WNK1 is also known as Human Accelerated Region 5. WNK1 may have played a key role in differentiating Humans from Apes.