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PTK6

Gene

protein tyrosine kinase 6

HGNCHGNC:9617EnsemblENSG00000101213NCBI Gene5753
Locus: gene with protein productLocation: 20q13.33

Also known as

Symbols and names change; identity (the HGNC ID) does not. Previous and alternative forms are kept distinct.

Also known asBRK
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Alias symbolsBRK
Previous namesPTK6 protein tyrosine kinase 6

Associated diseases

via associated_with

Diseases linked to this gene through the canonical GENE→DISEASE (associated_with) relation, drawn from Open Targets' top-ranked associations by overall score — not the full association set. Disease-level detail lives on each disease's own page.

Medullary thyroid gland carcinoma
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Thyroid gland carcinoma
Neoplasms
Colorectal adenocarcinoma
Cutaneous melanoma
Gastric carcinoma

Drawn from Open Targets’ top 10 associations by overall score for this gene — the subset resolved to a canonical disease. Lower-ranked associations, and diseases not yet canonicalised, are not shown.

Gene family

HGNC gene-group membership.

SH2 domain containingPTK6 family tyrosine kinases

Provenance

HGNCCanonical human gene identity from HGNC (release 2026-07-07), updated 2023-01-20.
Open TargetsGene–disease associations from the Open Targets Platform.