DCHS2

Identifiers

Aliases, CDH27, CDHJ, CDHR7, PCDH23, PCDHJ, dachsous cadherin-related 2

External IDsOMIM: ; HomoloGene: ; GeneCards: ; OMA:

Gene location ( Human )

Chr.Chromosome 4 (human)

Band 4q31.3 Start 154,231,742 bp

End154,491,799 bp

RNA expression patternHumanMouse (ortholog)prefrontal cortex Achilles tendon superior frontal gyrus nucleus accumbens smooth muscle tissue muscle layer of sigmoid colon sural nerve body of uterus myometrium caudate nucleusn/an/a

RNA expression pattern

HumanMouse (ortholog)prefrontal cortex Achilles tendon superior frontal gyrus nucleus accumbens smooth muscle tissue muscle layer of sigmoid colon sural nerve body of uterus myometrium caudate nucleusn/a

Human Mouse (ortholog)

prefrontal cortex Achilles tendon superior frontal gyrus nucleus accumbens smooth muscle tissue muscle layer of sigmoid colon sural nerve body of uterus myometrium caudate nucleusn/a

prefrontal cortex Achilles tendon superior frontal gyrus nucleus accumbens smooth muscle tissue muscle layer of sigmoid colon sural nerve body of uterus myometrium caudate nucleus

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Gene ontologyMolecular functionCellular componentBiological processSources: /

Gene ontology

Molecular function

Cellular component

Biological process

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OrthologsSpeciesHumanMouseEntrezn/aEnsembln/aUniProtn/aRefSeq (mRNA)n/aRefSeq (protein)n/aLocation (UCSC)n/aPubMed searchn/a

Orthologs

Species Human Mouse

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Wikidata

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Protein dachsous homolog 2, also known as protocadherin-23 (PCDH23) or cadherin-27 (CDH27), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DCHS2 gene.

DCHS2 has been implicated in the nose angle (how much a nose is upturned). As well as facial genetics

DCHS2

Further reading