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SIX6

Chr 14q23.1

SIX homeobox 6

Aliases:
Six9
MANE:
ENST00000327720.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Anophthalmia or microphthalmia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Structural eye disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Ocular coloboma

    BOTH monoallelic and biallelic, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Bilateral congenital or childhood onset cataracts

  • DDG2P

    MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Microphthalmia - cataract

    0.73
  • open-angle glaucoma

    0.56
  • glaucoma

    0.47
  • Developmental cataract

    0.43
  • sclerocornea

    0.43
  • low tension glaucoma

    0.42
  • anophthalmia-microphthalmia syndrome

    0.42
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.41
  • isolated anophthalmia-microphthalmia syndrome

    0.37
  • microphthalmia

    0.36

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

Protein function (UniProt)

Homeobox protein SIX6

May be involved in eye development

Curated MONDO disease pages that list SIX6 among their top associated genes.

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.