LINC00242

Summary

LINC00242 (long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 242, HGNC:21249) is a long non-coding RNA gene on chromosome 6q27.

At a glance

• Gene type: non-coding (lncRNA) — no protein product; not a drug target. Variant/disease associations are omitted (they would be positional, from an overlapping protein-coding gene).

Identifiers

Gene identifiers

Field	Value
HGNC ID	HGNC:21249
Approved symbol	LINC00242
Name	long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 242
Location	6q27
Locus type	RNA, long non-coding
Status	Approved
Aliases	FLJ31451, dJ266L20.5
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000229214
Ensembl biotype	lncRNA
Entrez	401288
RNAcentral	URS00001C235B — lncRNA, 2418 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 2 — 2 lncRNA

ENST00000437615, ENST00000648769

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000437615 — 2 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001677179	169788790	169791118
ENSE00001801277	169798737	169798825

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth ubiquitous, 123 present calls, max score 85.22.

Top tissues by expression

123 total, by Bgee expression score (0-100, higher = more expressed):

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
primordial germ cell in gonad	CL:0000670 ∩ UBERON:0000991	85.22	gold quality
right lobe of liver	UBERON:0001114	70.45	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	68.76	gold quality
cortical plate	UBERON:0005343	65.18	gold quality
islet of Langerhans	UBERON:0000006	62.78	gold quality
ventricular zone	UBERON:0003053	60.86	gold quality
ganglionic eminence	UBERON:0004023	59.90	gold quality
nucleus accumbens	UBERON:0001882	59.28	gold quality
duodenum	UBERON:0002114	58.63	gold quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	58.31	gold quality
lower esophagus	UBERON:0013473	58.26	gold quality
pituitary gland	UBERON:0000007	57.90	gold quality
putamen	UBERON:0001874	57.11	gold quality
hindlimb stylopod muscle	UBERON:0004252	56.64	gold quality
Brodmann (1909) area 9	UBERON:0013540	56.43	gold quality
stromal cell of endometrium	CL:0002255	56.36	gold quality
caudate nucleus	UBERON:0001873	56.29	gold quality
adenohypophysis	UBERON:0002196	56.16	gold quality
prefrontal cortex	UBERON:0000451	55.85	gold quality
frontal cortex	UBERON:0001870	55.75	gold quality
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	UBERON:0009834	55.72	gold quality
superior frontal gyrus	UBERON:0002661	55.71	gold quality
right frontal lobe	UBERON:0002810	55.61	gold quality
smooth muscle tissue	UBERON:0001135	55.28	gold quality
mucosa of transverse colon	UBERON:0004991	55.24	gold quality
primary visual cortex	UBERON:0002436	55.21	gold quality
vermiform appendix	UBERON:0001154	55.05	gold quality
brain	UBERON:0000955	54.74	gold quality
hypothalamus	UBERON:0001898	54.59	gold quality
cerebral cortex	UBERON:0000956	54.56	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

Detected in 1 experiment(s), a significant marker in 0.

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	0.34

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

Literature-anchored findings (GeneRIF, showing 1)

• LINC00242/miR-1-3p/G6PD axis regulates Warburg effect and affects gastric cancer proliferation and apoptosis. (PMID:33514309)

Cross-species orthologs

0 orthologs

Protein

Non-coding RNA — no protein product; not a drug target.

Function

No curated pathway, Gene-Ontology, or interaction data.

Disease & clinical

No curated disease, variant, or cancer-driver associations.

Drugs & pharmacology

No drug or pharmacology data — not an established drug target.