The first protein discovered in the family was Gal-1. As
reported by the MapViewer program and the Entrez
genome database on the NCBI website (http://www.ncbi.
nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Genome&itool=toolbar),
Gal-1 is encoded by the LSGALS1 gene located on chromosome
22q12 (Figure 1).