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FGF8

Chr 10q24.32

fibroblast growth factor 8

Aliases:
AIGF
MANE:
ENST00000320185.7

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Fetal anomalies

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Holoprosencephaly

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (GMS)

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • IUGR and IGF abnormalities

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Pituitary hormone deficiency

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
  • Monogenic short stature

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
  • Skeletal dysplasia

    Unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 6 with or without anosmia

    0.76
  • hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

    0.61
  • cancer

    0.61
  • Kallmann syndrome

    0.60
  • bone development disease

    0.60
  • holoprosencephaly

    0.59
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.46
  • semilobar holoprosencephaly

    0.45
  • ovarian carcinoma

    0.39
  • septopreoptic holoprosencephaly

    0.38

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Fibroblast growth factor 8

Plays an important role in the regulation of embryonic development, cell proliferation, cell differentiation and cell migration. Required for normal brain, eye, ear and limb development during embryogenesis. Required for normal development of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neuronal system (PubMed:16384934, PubMed:16597617, PubMed:8663044). Plays a role in neurite outgrowth in hippocampal cells (PubMed:21576111)

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.