KC6

KC6 ("Keratoconus gene 6") is a novel gene located on chromosome 18 at p12.3. It was discovered by Rabinowitz et al. (2005)[1] in a study whose aims were finding genes expressed in human cornea and increasing the knowledge of molecular changes in keratoconus. It lies adjacent to the PIK3C3 gene, but is apparently non-protein coding. Its function is unknown so far and the only study available is that of its discovery. Authors suggest that the gene may be cornea-specific in its expression.

References
  1. Rabinowitz YS, Dong L, Wistow G (April 2005). "Gene expression profile studies of human keratoconus cornea for NEIBank: a novel cornea-expressed gene and the absence of transcripts for aquaporin 5" (PDF). Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 46 (4): 1239–1246. doi:10.1167/iovs.04-1148. PMID 15790884.
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