MAGEA8
Identifiers
Aliases	MAGEA8, CT1.8, MAGE8, Melanoma antigen family a, 8, MAGE family member A8
External IDs	OMIM: 300341 HomoloGene: 74553 GeneCards: MAGEA8
Gene location (Human) Chr. X chromosome (human)[1] Band Xq28 Start 149,881,141 bp[1] End 149,885,835 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in placenta gastric mucosa cervix canal of the cervix fundus left uterine tube thoracic aorta ascending aorta myometrium vagina n/a More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function protein binding molecular function Cellular component cellular component Biological process biological process Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 4107 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000156009 n/a UniProt P43361 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_005364 NM_001166400 NM_001166401 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_001159872 NP_001159873 NP_005355 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr X: 149.88 – 149.89 Mb n/a PubMed search [2] n/a
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Melanoma antigen family A, 8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAGEA8 gene. ^[3]

Function

This gene is a member of the MAGEA gene family. The members of this family encode proteins with 50 to 80% sequence identity to each other. The promoters and first exons of the MAGEA genes show considerable variability, suggesting that the existence of this gene family enables the same function to be expressed under different transcriptional controls. The MAGEA genes are clustered at chromosomal location Xq28. They have been implicated in some hereditary disorders, such as dyskeratosis congenita. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified.