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Canine gene

NKX2-8

Human counterpart: NKX2-8

NKX2-8 is a gene catalogued in the canine genome. Here is its canonical identity across the genomics world and, where documented, its human counterpart.

In the reference databases

NKX2-8 as it is catalogued across the genomics world. Each link is the canonical record, so this gene composes with everything those resources know.

The human counterpart

In humans, this gene's counterpart is NKX2-8. That ortholog is what connects NKX2-8 to a century of human medical genetics. The dog and human proteins are 87% identical.

In people, NKX2-8 appears tolerant of loss-of-function variation (gnomAD v4.1 constraint, LOEUF 1.93). Constraint measures intolerance to loss-of-function only and does not indicate importance; some tolerant genes cause disease through other mechanisms.

Research tools for this gene

Lookup and discovery are candidate-framed research surfaces. Classification renders AVCG grades we cite; Sniff does not score variants with a model of its own.

On the numbers

Per-breed allele frequencies across the atlas are surfaced for the trait loci Sniff has verified a direction-of-effect for. For NKX2-8 we show the cited identity and disease associations, and we would rather show you exactly that than a frequency we cannot yet interpret honestly. See the gene catalog for trait loci with frequency views and every disease-linked gene page.

How to cite this page

Gene identity and disease associations are grounded in OMIA (CC-BY) and the open Sniff Atlas. Full citation formats at sniff.world/cite.

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Sources: OMIA · Sniff gene crossrefs · Ensembl / NCBI / HGNC · gnomAD v4.1 (Karczewski 2020)