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Homo sapiens Gene: MEG8
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-544210.3
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol MEG8
Gene Name maternally expressed 8 (non-protein coding)
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000258399
Encoded Proteins
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary This gene is located in a cluster of imprinted genes on chromosome 14q32.3. It encodes a a non-protein coding transcript that is preferentially expressed from the maternal allele in skeletal muscle, and appears to be coordinately regulated with other imprinted genes in this region. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2010]
Gene Information
Type lincRNA
Genomic Location Chromosome 14:100894770-100935999
Strand Forward strand
Band q32.2
Transcripts
ENST00000553584
ENST00000554852
ENST00000553465
ENST00000554323
ENST00000556475
ENST00000553421
ENST00000614605
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Orthologs
No orthologs found for this gene
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene
RefSeq
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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