SNORA18

Summary

SNORA18 (small nucleolar RNA, H/ACA box 18, HGNC:32608) is a small nucleolar RNA gene on chromosome 11q21.

Predicted to be involved in RNA processing. Predicted to be located in nucleolus.

Source: NCBI Gene 677805 — RefSeq curated summary.

At a glance

• Gene type: non-coding (snoRNA) — 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:32608
Approved symbol	SNORA18
Name	small nucleolar RNA, H/ACA box 18
Location	11q21
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	ACA18
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000207145
Ensembl biotype	snoRNA
Entrez	677805
RNAcentral	URS0000202A89 — snoRNA, 132 nt, 2 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 snoRNA

ENST00000384416

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000384416 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001808590	93733466	93733597

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 44 present calls, max score 99.61.

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	99.61	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	98.20	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	96.83	gold quality
intestine	UBERON:0000160	88.69	gold quality
tibial nerve	UBERON:0001323	88.51	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	87.10	gold quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	86.25	gold quality
colon	UBERON:0001155	86.09	gold quality
primordial germ cell in gonad	CL:0000670 ∩ UBERON:0000991	85.86	gold quality
stomach	UBERON:0000945	84.42	gold quality
adult mammalian kidney	UBERON:0000082	83.60	gold quality
heart	UBERON:0000948	80.89	gold quality
body of pancreas	UBERON:0001150	78.60	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	77.39	gold quality
skin of leg	UBERON:0001511	76.42	gold quality
myometrium	UBERON:0001296	75.27	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	75.04	gold quality
anterior cingulate cortex	UBERON:0009835	74.46	gold quality
muscle of leg	UBERON:0001383	72.99	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	72.87	gold quality
C1 segment of cervical spinal cord	UBERON:0006469	71.32	gold quality
left lobe of thyroid gland	UBERON:0001120	70.42	gold quality
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	UBERON:0009834	69.94	gold quality
islet of Langerhans	UBERON:0000006	69.63	gold quality
right atrium auricular region	UBERON:0006631	68.38	gold quality
caudate nucleus	UBERON:0001873	67.51	gold quality
subcutaneous adipose tissue	UBERON:0002190	66.97	gold quality
ascending aorta	UBERON:0001496	66.80	gold quality
cerebral cortex	UBERON:0000956	66.60	gold quality
brain	UBERON:0000955	65.28	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	0.00

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

Cross-species orthologs

4 orthologs

Organism	Symbol	Gene ID
mus_musculus	Gm24455	ENSMUSG00000065282
rattus_norvegicus	LOC120101255	ENSRNOG00000059407
rattus_norvegicus	Snora18	ENSRNOG00000061688
rattus_norvegicus		ENSRNOG00000078043

Paralogs (7): (ENSG00000200288), (ENSG00000206592), (ENSG00000206849), (ENSG00000252249), (ENSG00000252425), (ENSG00000252601), (ENSG00000252719)

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.