DCHS2

DCHS2
Identifiers
Aliases	DCHS2, CDH27, CDHJ, CDHR7, PCDH23, PCDHJ, dachsous cadherin-related 2
External IDs	OMIM: 612486; HomoloGene: 130686; GeneCards: DCHS2; OMA:DCHS2 - orthologs
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 4 (human)
End	154,491,799 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	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;
	n/a
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Gene ontology
Molecular function	calcium ion binding; molecular function; cadherin binding;
Cellular component	integral component of membrane; plasma membrane; membrane; cellular component;
Biological process	cell adhesion; homophilic cell adhesion via plasma membrane adhesion molecules; biological process; cell-cell adhesion;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	54798
	n/a
	ENSG00000197410; ENSG00000284227
	n/a
	Q6V1P9
	n/a
	NM_001142552; NM_001142553; NM_017639; NM_199348; NM_001358235
	n/a
	NP_001136024; NP_001345164
	n/a
	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