SNORD18A

Summary

SNORD18A (small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 18A, HGNC:32714) is a small nucleolar RNA gene on chromosome 15q22.31.

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

Source: NCBI Gene 595098 — 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:32714
Approved symbol	SNORD18A
Name	small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 18A
Location	15q22.31
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	U18A
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000200623
Ensembl biotype	snoRNA
Entrez	595098
RNAcentral	URS00004DF250 — snoRNA, 70 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 snoRNA

ENST00000363753

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000363753 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001438516	66503243	66503314

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 26 present calls, max score 97.29.

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	97.29	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	90.54	gold quality
heart	UBERON:0000948	88.07	gold quality
Brodmann (1909) area 9	UBERON:0013540	83.51	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	81.36	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	80.82	gold quality
right frontal lobe	UBERON:0002810	80.23	gold quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	76.44	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	74.50	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	73.24	gold quality
adult mammalian kidney	UBERON:0000082	64.55	gold quality
Ammon’s horn	UBERON:0001954	60.74	gold quality
omental fat pad	UBERON:0010414	60.22	gold quality
body of stomach	UBERON:0001161	59.95	gold quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	58.10	gold quality
stomach	UBERON:0000945	55.42	gold quality
pituitary gland	UBERON:0000007	53.86	gold quality
nucleus accumbens	UBERON:0001882	52.81	gold quality
right hemisphere of cerebellum	UBERON:0014890	52.14	gold quality
right adrenal gland	UBERON:0001233	49.74	gold quality
transverse colon	UBERON:0001157	49.53	gold quality
left lobe of thyroid gland	UBERON:0001120	46.27	silver quality
skin of leg	UBERON:0001511	43.74	gold quality
colon	UBERON:0001155	42.85	gold quality
left testis	UBERON:0004533	35.60	gold quality
prostate gland	UBERON:0002367	35.33	silver 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

3 orthologs

Organism	Symbol	Gene ID
danio_rerio	SNORD18	ENSDARG00000080158
mus_musculus	Gm23344	ENSMUSG00000065752
rattus_norvegicus	LOC120094440	ENSRNOG00000052983

Paralogs (4): SNORD18C (ENSG00000199574), SNORD18 (ENSG00000200677), SNORD18B (ENSG00000202529), SNORD18 (ENSG00000238503)

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.