LINC02161

Summary

LINC02161 (long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2161, HGNC:53022) is a long non-coding RNA gene on chromosome 5q14.3.

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:53022
Approved symbol	LINC02161
Name	long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2161
Location	5q14.3
Locus type	RNA, long non-coding
Status	Approved
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000250437
Ensembl biotype	lncRNA
Entrez	105379076
RNAcentral	URS0000199686 — lncRNA, 420 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 lncRNA

ENST00000503691

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000503691 — 2 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00002079108	89581209	89581376
ENSE00002084783	89677450	89677701

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 24 present calls, max score 66.63.

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
vermiform appendix	UBERON:0001154	66.63	gold quality
urinary bladder	UBERON:0001255	65.03	gold quality
lymph node	UBERON:0000029	63.64	gold quality
right frontal lobe	UBERON:0002810	60.42	gold quality
tonsil	UBERON:0002372	54.04	gold quality
heart left ventricle	UBERON:0002084	53.61	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	52.73	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	51.96	silver quality
colon	UBERON:0001155	50.95	gold quality
adrenal gland	UBERON:0002369	50.88	gold quality
endometrium	UBERON:0001295	45.35	gold quality
rectum	UBERON:0001052	45.17	gold quality
hypothalamus	UBERON:0001898	44.99	gold quality
small intestine	UBERON:0002108	44.21	gold quality
spleen	UBERON:0002106	43.32	gold quality
transverse colon	UBERON:0001157	41.25	silver quality
esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0002469	41.22	silver quality
small intestine Peyer’s patch	UBERON:0003454	40.74	gold quality
muscle layer of sigmoid colon	UBERON:0035805	39.51	silver quality
omental fat pad	UBERON:0010414	39.15	silver quality
right ovary	UBERON:0002118	38.53	silver quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	38.15	silver quality
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	UBERON:0009834	33.73	silver quality
left testis	UBERON:0004533	27.79	silver quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	1.30

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.