SCARNA21

Summary

SCARNA21 (small Cajal body-specific RNA 21, HGNC:32579) is a small Cajal body RNA gene on chromosome 17p13.1.

Predicted to be involved in RNA processing. Predicted to be located in Cajal body and nucleolus.

Source: NCBI Gene 677763 — RefSeq curated summary.

At a glance

• Gene type: non-coding (scaRNA) — 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:32579
Approved symbol	SCARNA21
Name	small Cajal body-specific RNA 21
Location	17p13.1
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	ACA68, SCARNA21A
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000252835
Ensembl biotype	scaRNA
Entrez	677763
RNAcentral	URS000075DDD9 — ncRNA, 138 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 scaRNA

ENST00000517026

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000517026 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00002089303	7906122	7906260

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth ubiquitous, 121 present calls, max score 99.89.

FANTOM5 (CAGE): breadth ubiquitous, TPM avg 9.9429 / max 792.3980, expressed in 1636 samples.

FANTOM5 promoters (1 alternative TSS)

Promoter ID	TPM avg	Samples expressed
159440	9.9429	1636

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
corpus callosum	UBERON:0002336	99.89	gold quality
calcaneal tendon	UBERON:0003701	99.87	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	99.67	gold quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	98.81	gold quality
hindlimb stylopod muscle	UBERON:0004252	90.81	gold quality
granulocyte	CL:0000094	89.34	gold quality
right uterine tube	UBERON:0001302	87.30	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	87.07	gold quality
superior frontal gyrus	UBERON:0002661	84.95	gold quality
olfactory segment of nasal mucosa	UBERON:0005386	84.02	gold quality
prostate gland	UBERON:0002367	82.02	gold quality
skeletal muscle tissue	UBERON:0001134	81.49	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	81.43	gold quality
leukocyte	CL:0000738	81.42	gold quality
primary visual cortex	UBERON:0002436	81.10	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	79.51	gold quality
prefrontal cortex	UBERON:0000451	79.23	gold quality
right lung	UBERON:0002167	79.18	gold quality
saliva-secreting gland	UBERON:0001044	78.95	gold quality
apex of heart	UBERON:0002098	78.94	gold quality
minor salivary gland	UBERON:0001830	78.89	gold quality
endocervix	UBERON:0000458	78.71	gold quality
left testis	UBERON:0004533	78.20	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	78.05	gold quality
lower esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0035834	77.86	gold quality
right testis	UBERON:0004534	77.72	gold quality
body of uterus	UBERON:0009853	77.59	gold quality
myometrium	UBERON:0001296	77.54	gold quality
testis	UBERON:0000473	77.29	gold quality
cortex of kidney	UBERON:0001225	77.18	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	yes	6.17

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

Cross-species orthologs

1 orthologs

Organism	Symbol	Gene ID
mus_musculus	Gm22442	ENSMUSG00000087881

Paralogs (1): (ENSG00000252409)

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.