Predicted to be involved in sensory perception of smell and visual perception. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Forensic Context
A study in Wistar-albino rats demonstrated that the NXNL2 gene was up-regulated at 12 hours post-mild traumatic brain injury and subsequently down-regulated at 48 hours, identifying it as part of a gene interaction network responding to injury [Colak et al. DOI:10.1016/j.injury.2012.01.021].