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IFNA8
Identifiers
Aliases	IFNA8, IFN-alphaB, interferon alpha 8
External IDs	OMIM: 147568 HomoloGene: 68237 GeneCards: IFNA8
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 9 (human)
End	21,410,185 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	More reference expression data
	More reference expression data
Gene ontology
Molecular function
Cellular component
Biological process
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	3445
	n/a
	ENSG00000120242
	n/a
	P32881
	n/a
	NM_002170
	n/a
	NP_002161
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	Wikidata
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Interferon alpha-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA8 gene.^[3]^[4]

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^ ^a ^b ^c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000120242 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ Olopade OI, Bohlander SK, Pomykala H, Maltepe E, Van Melle E, Le Beau MM, Diaz MO (Dec 1992). "Mapping of the shortest region of overlap of deletions of the short arm of chromosome 9 associated with human neoplasia". Genomics. 14 (2): 437–43. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80238-1. PMID 1385305.
^ "Entrez Gene: IFNA8 interferon, alpha 8".

Further reading[edit]

Henco K, Brosius J, Fujisawa A, et al. (1985). "Structural relationship of human interferon alpha genes and pseudogenes". J. Mol. Biol. 185 (2): 227–60. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(85)90401-2. PMID 4057246.
Goeddel DV, Leung DW, Dull TJ, et al. (1981). "The structure of eight distinct cloned human leukocyte interferon cDNAs". Nature. 290 (5801): 20–6. Bibcode:1981Natur.290...20G. doi:10.1038/290020a0. PMID 6163083. S2CID 1900300.
Yelverton E, Leung D, Weck P, et al. (1981). "Bacterial synthesis of a novel human leukocyte interferon". Nucleic Acids Res. 9 (3): 731–41. doi:10.1093/nar/9.3.731. PMC 327233. PMID 6164048.
Bowden DW, Mao J, Gill T, et al. (1984). "Cloning of eukaryotic genes in single-strand phage vectors: the human interferon genes". Gene. 27 (1): 87–99. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(84)90241-5. PMID 6325303.
Tiefenbrun N, Melamed D, Levy N, et al. (1996). "Alpha interferon suppresses the cyclin D3 and cdc25A genes, leading to a reversible G0-like arrest". Mol. Cell. Biol. 16 (7): 3934–44. doi:10.1128/MCB.16.7.3934. PMC 231390. PMID 8668211.
Hussain M, Gill DS, Liao MJ, Testa D (1997). "Interferon-alpha 8b is the only variant of interferon-alpha 8 identified in a large human population". J. Interferon Cytokine Res. 16 (7): 523–9. doi:10.1089/jir.1996.16.523. PMID 8836918.
Nyman TA, Tölö H, Parkkinen J, Kalkkinen N (1998). "Identification of nine interferon-alpha subtypes produced by Sendai virus-induced human peripheral blood leucocytes". Biochem. J. 329. ( Pt 2) (2): 295–302. doi:10.1042/bj3290295. PMC 1219044. PMID 9425112.
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
Hardy MP, Owczarek CM, Jermiin LS, et al. (2005). "Characterization of the type I interferon locus and identification of novel genes". Genomics. 84 (2): 331–45. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.03.003. PMID 15233997.

[refGRCh38Ensembl-1] GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000120242 – Ensembl, May 2017

[2] "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

[pmid1385305-3] Olopade OI, Bohlander SK, Pomykala H, Maltepe E, Van Melle E, Le Beau MM, Diaz MO (Dec 1992). "Mapping of the shortest region of overlap of deletions of the short arm of chromosome 9 associated with human neoplasia". Genomics. 14 (2): 437–43. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80238-1. PMID 1385305.

[entrez-4] "Entrez Gene: IFNA8 interferon, alpha 8".

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