KC6

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KC6 ("Keratoconus gene 6") is a novel gene located on chromosome 18 at p12.3. It was discovered by Rabinowitz et al. (2005) in a study whose aims were finding genes expressed in human cornea and increasing the knowledge of molecular changes in keratoconus. It lies adjacent to the PIK3C3 gene, but is apparently non-protein coding. Its function is unknown so far and the only study available is that of its discovery. Authors suggest that the gene may be cornea-specific in its expression.

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{{cite journal |vauthors=Rabinowitz YS, Dong L, Wistow G |title=Gene expression profile studies of human keratoconus cornea for NEIBank: a novel cornea-expressed gene and the absence of transcripts for aquaporin 5 |journal=Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=1239–1246 |date=April 2005 |pmid=15790884 |doi=10.1167/iovs.04-1148 |url=http://www.keratoconus.com/resources/Gene+Expression+Profile.pdf |access-date=2016-01-06 |archive-date=2021-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604203913/http://www.keratoconus.com/resources/Gene+Expression+Profile.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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