SNORD56

Summary

SNORD56 (small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 56, HGNC:10206) is a small nucleolar RNA gene on chromosome 20p13.

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

Source: NCBI Gene 26793 — 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:10206
Approved symbol	SNORD56
Name	small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 56
Location	20p13
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	U56
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000229686
Ensembl biotype	snoRNA
Entrez	26793
RNAcentral	URS0000434604 — snoRNA, 71 nt, 10 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 snoRNA

ENST00000413522

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000413522 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00003527421	2656624	2656694

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 27 present calls, max score 99.64.

FANTOM5 (CAGE): breadth tissue_specific, TPM avg 0.1581 / max 40.1859, expressed in 49 samples.

FANTOM5 promoters (1 alternative TSS)

Promoter ID	TPM avg	Samples expressed
183175	0.1581	49

Top tissues by expression

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

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	99.64	gold quality
skeletal muscle tissue	UBERON:0001134	92.10	gold quality
adrenal tissue	UBERON:0018303	91.66	gold quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	90.42	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	88.82	gold quality
prostate gland	UBERON:0002367	86.69	gold quality
Brodmann (1909) area 9	UBERON:0013540	86.55	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	83.74	gold quality
duodenum	UBERON:0002114	81.96	gold quality
adult mammalian kidney	UBERON:0000082	80.35	gold quality
multicellular organism	UBERON:0000468	80.27	gold quality
heart	UBERON:0000948	80.18	gold quality
intestine	UBERON:0000160	79.57	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	78.98	gold quality
stomach	UBERON:0000945	78.53	gold quality
colon	UBERON:0001155	77.43	gold quality
spleen	UBERON:0002106	77.41	gold quality
vermiform appendix	UBERON:0001154	76.19	gold quality
endometrium	UBERON:0001295	74.08	gold quality
muscle of leg	UBERON:0001383	73.45	gold quality
calcaneal tendon	UBERON:0003701	72.61	gold quality
right atrium auricular region	UBERON:0006631	70.37	gold quality
ovary	UBERON:0000992	68.90	gold quality
anterior cingulate cortex	UBERON:0009835	68.42	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	67.53	gold quality
lower esophagus muscularis layer	UBERON:0035833	56.25	gold quality
tibial artery	UBERON:0007610	42.21	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

2 orthologs

Organism	Symbol	Gene ID
mus_musculus	Gm23650	ENSMUSG00000065289
rattus_norvegicus	Snord56	ENSRNOG00000054607

Paralogs (7): (ENSG00000199783), (ENSG00000200112), (ENSG00000200377), (ENSG00000200753), (ENSG00000201151), (ENSG00000207299), SNORD56B (ENSG00000207444)

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.