Collagen, type VIII, alpha 2

COL8A2
Identifiers
Aliases COL8A2, FECD, FECD1, PPCD, PPCD2, collagen type VIII alpha 2
External IDs MGI: 88464 HomoloGene: 55879 GeneCards: COL8A2
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

1296

329941

Ensembl

ENSG00000171812

ENSMUSG00000056174

UniProt

P25067
Q4VAQ0

P25318

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001294347
NM_005202

NM_199473

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001281276.1
NP_005193.1

NP_955767.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 36.1 – 36.13 Mb Chr 4: 126.29 – 126.31 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Collagen alpha-2(VIII) chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the COL8A2 gene.[3][4] Mutations of the gene are linked to posterior polymorphous dystrophy type 2.

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Biswas S, Munier FL, Yardley J, Hart-Holden N, Perveen R, Cousin P, Sutphin JE, Noble B, Batterbury M, Kielty C, Hackett A, Bonshek R, Ridgway A, McLeod D, Sheffield VC, Stone EM, Schorderet DF, Black GC (Nov 2001). "Missense mutations in COL8A2, the gene encoding the alpha2 chain of type VIII collagen, cause two forms of corneal endothelial dystrophy". Hum Mol Genet. 10 (21): 2415–23. doi:10.1093/hmg/10.21.2415. PMID 11689488.
  4. "Entrez Gene: COL8A2 collagen, type VIII, alpha 2".

Further reading


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