LINC00442

Summary

LINC00442 (long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 442, HGNC:42779) is a long non-coding RNA gene on chromosome 13q12.11.

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:42779
Approved symbol	LINC00442
Name	long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 442
Location	13q12.11
Locus type	RNA, long non-coding
Status	Approved
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000232685
Ensembl biotype	lncRNA
Entrez	348021
RNAcentral	URS000075A735 — lncRNA, 2138 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 6 — 6 lncRNA

ENST00000428086, ENST00000456737, ENST00000659140, ENST00000670804, ENST00000719674, ENST00000719675

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000428086 — 3 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001661642	19009303	19009443
ENSE00001711795	19011433	19011849
ENSE00001781728	19008264	19009139

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 33 present calls, max score 91.37.

FANTOM5 (CAGE): breadth tissue_specific, TPM avg 0.0294 / max 36.5379, expressed in 3 samples.

FANTOM5 promoters (1 alternative TSS)

Promoter ID	TPM avg	Samples expressed
134270	0.0294	3

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
male germ line stem cell (sensu Vertebrata) in testis	CL:0000089 ∩ UBERON:0000473	91.37	gold quality
right testis	UBERON:0004534	83.97	gold quality
left testis	UBERON:0004533	81.34	gold quality
testis	UBERON:0000473	80.76	gold quality
multicellular organism	UBERON:0000468	60.01	gold quality
metanephros cortex	UBERON:0010533	59.51	gold quality
tibial nerve	UBERON:0001323	54.63	gold quality
stomach	UBERON:0000945	52.25	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	50.82	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	50.54	silver quality
adult mammalian kidney	UBERON:0000082	48.03	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	46.31	gold quality
body of pancreas	UBERON:0001150	45.22	silver quality
left lobe of thyroid gland	UBERON:0001120	45.06	gold quality
minor salivary gland	UBERON:0001830	43.69	gold quality
skin of abdomen	UBERON:0001416	42.12	silver quality
prostate gland	UBERON:0002367	42.01	gold quality
pituitary gland	UBERON:0000007	41.88	silver quality
zone of skin	UBERON:0000014	41.80	silver quality
thoracic aorta	UBERON:0001515	41.54	silver quality
skin of leg	UBERON:0001511	41.16	silver quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	40.44	silver quality
omental fat pad	UBERON:0010414	40.11	silver quality
primordial germ cell in gonad	CL:0000670 ∩ UBERON:0000991	39.85	gold quality
subcutaneous adipose tissue	UBERON:0002190	39.79	gold quality
spleen	UBERON:0002106	39.43	silver quality
vagina	UBERON:0000996	38.01	silver quality
muscle layer of sigmoid colon	UBERON:0035805	37.63	silver quality
body of stomach	UBERON:0001161	36.53	silver quality
transverse colon	UBERON:0001157	36.35	silver quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	1.47

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

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.