LINC03178

Summary

LINC03178 (long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 3178, HGNC:58942) is a long non-coding RNA gene on chromosome 2q24.3.

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:58942
Approved symbol	LINC03178
Name	long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 3178
Location	2q24.3
Locus type	RNA, long non-coding
Status	Approved
Aliases	uc.94, uc.93
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000237844
Ensembl biotype	lncRNA
Entrez	144432480

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 2 — 2 lncRNA

ENST00000429636, ENST00000666867

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000429636 — 5 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001646219	163950181	163950259
ENSE00001671143	163749573	163749907
ENSE00001722532	164250720	164250811
ENSE00001723535	163869149	163869252
ENSE00001800436	164352120	164352223

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 95 present calls, max score 80.34.

Top tissues by expression

95 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	80.34	gold quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	73.54	gold quality
colonic epithelium	UBERON:0000397	67.65	silver quality
hindlimb stylopod muscle	UBERON:0004252	66.56	gold quality
lymph node	UBERON:0000029	56.40	gold quality
apex of heart	UBERON:0002098	54.56	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	53.73	gold quality
islet of Langerhans	UBERON:0000006	53.62	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	52.45	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	52.25	silver quality
duodenum	UBERON:0002114	51.74	gold quality
bone marrow	UBERON:0002371	51.03	silver quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	51.02	silver quality
prefrontal cortex	UBERON:0000451	50.33	gold quality
primordial germ cell in gonad	CL:0000670 ∩ UBERON:0000991	50.08	silver quality
calcaneal tendon	UBERON:0003701	49.24	silver quality
vermiform appendix	UBERON:0001154	48.64	gold quality
muscle of leg	UBERON:0001383	48.64	gold quality
gall bladder	UBERON:0002110	48.17	gold quality
heart	UBERON:0000948	48.08	gold quality
heart left ventricle	UBERON:0002084	48.04	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	47.70	gold quality
superior frontal gyrus	UBERON:0002661	47.56	silver quality
right atrium auricular region	UBERON:0006631	47.48	gold quality
lower esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0035834	45.64	silver quality
esophagogastric junction muscularis propria	UBERON:0035841	45.63	gold quality
lower esophagus	UBERON:0013473	44.80	gold quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	44.71	gold quality
Brodmann (1909) area 9	UBERON:0013540	44.47	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	44.24	silver quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	yes	2.60

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.