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NKX6-2

Chr 10q26.3

NK6 homeobox 2

Aliases:
NKX6B, GTX, NKX6.1
MANE:
ENST00000368592.8

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset dystonia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary ataxia with onset in adulthood

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • spastic ataxia 8, autosomal recessive, with hypomyelinating leukodystrophy

    0.81
  • Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia with leukoencephalopathy

    0.59
  • hereditary disease

    0.19
  • spermatocele

    0.16
  • male reproductive organ cancer

    0.11
  • genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

    0.09
  • placental retention

    0.09
  • schizophrenia

    0.08
  • undetermined early-onset epileptic encephalopathy

    0.08
  • developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep

    0.08

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Homeobox protein Nkx-6.2

Transcription factor with repressor activity involved in the regulation of axon-glial interactions at myelin paranodes in oligodendrocytes. Binds to the consensus DNA sequence 5'-(A/T)TTAATGA-3'. In oligodendrocytes, binds to MBP and PLP1 promoter regions

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.