KCNJ8
Encyclopedia
Potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 8, also known as KCNJ8, is a human gene
encoding the Kir6.1 protein.. A mutation in KCNJ8 has been associated with cardiac arrest in the early repolarization syndrome.
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
encoding the Kir6.1 protein.. A mutation in KCNJ8 has been associated with cardiac arrest in the early repolarization syndrome.