SNORD18B

Summary

SNORD18B (small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 18B, HGNC:32715) 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 595099 — 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:32715
Approved symbol	SNORD18B
Name	small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 18B
Location	15q22.31
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	U18B
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000202529
Ensembl biotype	snoRNA
Entrez	595099
RNAcentral	URS0000069864 — snoRNA, 70 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 snoRNA

ENST00000365659

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000365659 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001440422	66502020	66502091

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth tissue_specific, 5 present calls, max score 98.83.

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	98.83	gold quality
bone marrow	UBERON:0002371	78.29	gold quality
Brodmann (1909) area 9	UBERON:0013540	75.01	gold quality
Ammon’s horn	UBERON:0001954	54.82	gold quality
right hemisphere of cerebellum	UBERON:0014890	46.27	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

0 orthologs

Paralogs (4): SNORD18C (ENSG00000199574), SNORD18A (ENSG00000200623), SNORD18 (ENSG00000200677), 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.