1. Claus, Laura R, Chen, Chuan, Stallworth, Jennifer, van Eerde, Albertien M, Steet, Richard. 2023. Certain heterozygous variants in the kinase domain of the serine/threonine kinase NEK8 can cause an autosomal dominant form of polycystic kidney disease. In Kidney international, 104, 995-1007. doi:10.1016/j.kint.2023.07.021. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37598857/
2. Kang, Eunji, Kim, Hong-Kyu, Lee, Han-Byoel, Han, Wonshik. 2023. Never in mitosis gene A-related kinase-8 promotes proliferation, migration, invasion, and stemness of breast cancer cells via β-catenin signalling activation. In Scientific reports, 13, 6829. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32631-3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37100815/
3. Mehawej, Cybel, Chouery, Eliane, Ghabril, Ramy, Tokajian, Sima, Megarbane, Andre. 2022. NEK8-Associated Nephropathies: Do Autosomal Dominant Forms Exist? In Nephron, 147, 229-233. doi:10.1159/000526841. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36215968/
4. Grampa, Valentina, Delous, Marion, Zaidan, Mohamad, Jeanpierre, Cécile, Saunier, Sophie. 2016. Novel NEK8 Mutations Cause Severe Syndromic Renal Cystic Dysplasia through YAP Dysregulation. In PLoS genetics, 12, e1005894. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005894. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26967905/
5. Fukui, Hajime, Shiba, Dai, Asakawa, Kazuhide, Kawakami, Koichi, Yokoyama, Takahiko. 2012. The ciliary protein Nek8/Nphp9 acts downstream of Inv/Nphp2 during pronephros morphogenesis and left-right establishment in zebrafish. In FEBS letters, 586, 2273-9. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2012.05.064. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22687244/
6. Trapp, Melissa L, Galtseva, Alevtina, Manning, Danielle K, Rosenblum, Norman D, Quarmby, Lynne M. 2008. Defects in ciliary localization of Nek8 is associated with cystogenesis. In Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 23, 377-87. doi:10.1007/s00467-007-0692-y. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18189147/
7. Manning, Danielle K, Sergeev, Mikhail, van Heesbeen, Roy G, Shah, Jagesh V, Beier, David R. . Loss of the ciliary kinase Nek8 causes left-right asymmetry defects. In Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 24, 100-12. doi:10.1681/ASN.2012050490. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23274954/
8. Wang, Mingliang, Yu, Kexun, Meng, Futao, Wang, Huizhen, Li, Yongxiang. 2025. NEK8 promotes the progression of gastric cancer by reprogramming asparagine metabolism. In Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.), 31, 3. doi:10.1186/s10020-024-01062-9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39762761/