LINC02979

Summary

LINC02979 (long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2979, HGNC:56043) is a long non-coding RNA gene on chromosome 18p11.21.

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:56043
Approved symbol	LINC02979
Name	long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2979
Location	18p11.21
Locus type	RNA, long non-coding
Status	Approved
Aliases	RP11-703I16.1
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000267480
Ensembl biotype	lncRNA
Entrez	123706539
RNAcentral	URS00000B04B5 — lncRNA, 527 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 lncRNA

ENST00000587619

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000587619 — 2 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00002888183	12031178	12031218
ENSE00002939159	12031696	12032181

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth ubiquitous, 131 present calls, max score 82.82.

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
body of pancreas	UBERON:0001150	82.82	gold quality
skeletal muscle tissue	UBERON:0001134	81.57	gold quality
hindlimb stylopod muscle	UBERON:0004252	81.05	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	80.82	gold quality
muscle of leg	UBERON:0001383	80.59	gold quality
male germ line stem cell (sensu Vertebrata) in testis	CL:0000089 ∩ UBERON:0000473	80.15	gold quality
lower esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0035834	79.79	gold quality
skin of abdomen	UBERON:0001416	79.39	gold quality
zone of skin	UBERON:0000014	78.94	gold quality
pancreas	UBERON:0001264	78.57	gold quality
skin of leg	UBERON:0001511	78.46	gold quality
muscle tissue	UBERON:0002385	78.37	gold quality
mucosa of transverse colon	UBERON:0004991	76.93	gold quality
esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0002469	76.78	gold quality
adult mammalian kidney	UBERON:0000082	76.56	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	75.94	gold quality
leukocyte	CL:0000738	75.42	gold quality
esophagus	UBERON:0001043	75.10	gold quality
urinary bladder	UBERON:0001255	74.95	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	73.63	gold quality
rectum	UBERON:0001052	73.50	gold quality
bone marrow cell	CL:0002092	73.43	silver quality
lower esophagus	UBERON:0013473	73.16	gold quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	73.13	gold quality
esophagogastric junction muscularis propria	UBERON:0035841	71.85	gold quality
fundus of stomach	UBERON:0001160	71.84	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	71.09	gold quality
smooth muscle tissue	UBERON:0001135	70.79	gold quality
primordial germ cell in gonad	CL:0000670 ∩ UBERON:0000991	70.69	gold quality
islet of Langerhans	UBERON:0000006	70.66	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	yes	2.95

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.