Chromosome 18 Open Reading Frame 8 (C18orf8)

C18orf8 Belongs to the Mic1 family.Contains 1 Mic1 domain. MIC1, also known as C18orf8, is a 657 amino acid protein that contains one MIC1 domain and is encoded by a gene which maps to human chromosome 18. Chromosome 18 houses over 300 protein-coding genes and contains nearly 76 million bases. There are a variety of diseases associated with defects in chromosome 18-localized genes, some of which include Trisomy 18 (also known as Edwards syndrome), Niemann-Pick disease, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, erythropoietic protoporphyria and follicular lymphomas.Chromosome 18 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 18 spans about 85 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents about 2.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.