The encoded protein - uteroglobin-related protein 1 (UGRP1) - is thought to act as an anti-inflammatory agent and is mainly expressed in the lung and trachea.
A new gene, named UGRP1 and reported by Niimi et al., encodes uteroglobin-related protein and is expressed in the lung and trachea.Niimi et al. showed the -112G/A polymorphism of the UGRP1 gene to be associated with asthma in a case-control study.