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Gene

PSMA8

proteasome 20S subunit alpha 8

Summary

Cytogenetic location
18q11.2
Coordinates
Chromosome 18: 26,133,869–26,193,355 (GRCh38)
Exons
7 exons across 59.5 kb
Protein
250 amino acids
Also known as
MGC26605, PSMA7L
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000415576.7NM_001025096.2
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads PSMA8 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How PSMA8 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 18, with a bracket where PSMA8 sits. PSMA8 and 3 genes near it on chromosome 18, from 25,663,612 to 26,663,611.Chromosome 1818q11.2p11.32p11.31p11.23p11.22p11.21p11.1q11.1q11.2q12.1q12.2q12.3q21.1q21.2q21.31q21.32q21.33q22.1q22.2q22.3q2325.8 Mb26 Mb26.2 Mb26.4 Mb26.6 MbSS18: 26,016,253–26,091,217, reverse strandSS18PSMA8: 26,133,869–26,193,355, forward strandPSMA8TAF4B: 26,226,386–26,391,685, forward strandTAF4BKCTD1: 26,454,910–26,657,401, reverse strandKCTD1Diagram of PSMA8: 7 exons on the forward strand of chromosome 18Exon 1: 26,133,869–26,134,067, 199 basesExon 2: 26,144,559–26,144,685, 127 basesExon 3: 26,151,858–26,151,982, 125 basesExon 4: 26,158,122–26,158,244, 123 basesExon 5: 26,178,830–26,178,949, 120 basesExon 6: 26,179,068–26,179,130, 63 basesExon 7: 26,192,319–26,193,355, 1,037 bases124675′3′

Exons of the gene's MANE Select transcript (release v1.5), from NCBI and EMBL-EBI, on the GRCh38 reference genome.

Chromosome bands from UCSC's GRCh38 ideogram (2022-10-29).

Nearby genes from Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.

Exons make up 1.8 kb of the gene's 59.5 kb; 753 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing PSMA8

4Low

How hard PSMA8 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

  • Mappability0%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats10%
  • GC content23%
  • Reference coverage0%

External links

Where this comes from

  • HGNC: the gene's symbol, name, other symbols and location.
  • MANE Select v1.5, from NCBI and EMBL-EBI: the transcript, its exons and coding sequence.
  • The Genome in a Bottle genome stratifications, from NIST: the sequencing difficulty score.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). PSMA8 gene: proteasome 20S subunit alpha 8. Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/psma8

Vancouver

Dante Labs. PSMA8 gene: proteasome 20S subunit alpha 8 [Internet]. [cited 18 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/psma8

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