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BBS8 - Bardet-Biedl syndrome 8

Involved in cilium assembly. Predicted to be located in cilium. Predicted to be part of BBSome. Predicted to be active in ciliary basal body and non-motile cilium. Is expressed in chordotonal neurons; eo neurons; and larval antenno-maxillary sensory complex. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Bardet-Biedl syndrome; Bardet-Biedl syndrome 8; and retinitis pigmentosa 51. Orthologous to human TTC8 (tetratricopeptide repeat domain 8). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Dec 2024]

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Species Gene Architecture aa