SNORD38A

Summary

SNORD38A (small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 38A, HGNC:30355) is a small nucleolar RNA gene on chromosome 1p34.1.

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

Source: NCBI Gene 94162 — 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:30355
Approved symbol	SNORD38A
Name	small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 38A
Location	1p34.1
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	U38A
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000202031
Ensembl biotype	snoRNA
Entrez	94162
RNAcentral	URS00003640C3 — snoRNA, 71 nt, 1 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 snoRNA

ENST00000365161

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000365161 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00001439924	44777843	44777912

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth ubiquitous, 116 present calls, max score 99.48.

FANTOM5 (CAGE): breadth tissue_specific, TPM avg 0.2416 / max 20.8486, expressed in 104 samples.

FANTOM5 promoters (1 alternative TSS)

Promoter ID	TPM avg	Samples expressed
2643	0.2416	104

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	99.48	gold quality
skeletal muscle tissue	UBERON:0001134	94.13	gold quality
lower esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0035834	89.31	gold quality
bone marrow	UBERON:0002371	87.99	gold quality
primordial germ cell in gonad	CL:0000670 ∩ UBERON:0000991	87.88	gold quality
lymph node	UBERON:0000029	87.73	gold quality
left ovary	UBERON:0002119	87.58	gold quality
vermiform appendix	UBERON:0001154	87.46	gold quality
right ovary	UBERON:0002118	86.61	gold quality
ovary	UBERON:0000992	86.53	gold quality
left uterine tube	UBERON:0001303	86.41	gold quality
skin of abdomen	UBERON:0001416	85.94	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	85.85	gold quality
zone of skin	UBERON:0000014	85.63	gold quality
skin of leg	UBERON:0001511	85.56	gold quality
duodenum	UBERON:0002114	84.23	gold quality
ectocervix	UBERON:0012249	84.03	gold quality
tibial nerve	UBERON:0001323	83.67	gold quality
thoracic mammary gland	UBERON:0005200	83.64	gold quality
vagina	UBERON:0000996	83.49	gold quality
myometrium	UBERON:0001296	83.21	gold quality
left adrenal gland cortex	UBERON:0035825	82.96	gold quality
granulocyte	CL:0000094	82.57	gold quality
mucosa of stomach	UBERON:0001199	82.52	gold quality
muscle of leg	UBERON:0001383	82.33	gold quality
subcutaneous adipose tissue	UBERON:0002190	82.29	gold quality
body of uterus	UBERON:0009853	82.24	gold quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	82.09	gold quality
metanephros cortex	UBERON:0010533	81.85	gold quality
right adrenal gland cortex	UBERON:0035827	81.82	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

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

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	0.81

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

Cross-species orthologs

2 orthologs

Organism	Symbol	Gene ID
mus_musculus	Snord38a	ENSMUSG00000065680
rattus_norvegicus	Snord38a	ENSRNOG00000055378

Paralogs (5): (ENSG00000200733), SNORD38C (ENSG00000207109), SNORD38D (ENSG00000207199), (ENSG00000252408), SNORD38B (ENSG00000281859)

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.