Basic Information

Symbol
hsa-mir-509-3
RNA class
miRNA miRNA hairpin
Alias
MIR509-3 MicroRNA 509-3 Hsa-MiR-509-3-5p Hsa-MiR-509-3p Hsa-Mir-509-3 MIRN509-3 Hsa-Mir-506-P4b_pre MIMAT0004975 MIMAT0002881 Mir-509-3 MI0005717
Location (GRCh38)
Forensic tag(s)
Tissue/body fluid identification

Sequence & Structure

Transcript ID
hsa-mir-509-3
Sequence length
75 nt
GC content
0.4267

Secondary Structure

Generated by RNAfold
Minimum free energy (MFE) structure:
Secondary structure that contributes a minimum of free energy.
Ensemble properties:
Thermodynamic properties of the Boltzmann ensemble.
Minimum free energy
-37.80 kcal/mol
Thermodynamic ensemble
Free energy: -38.81 kcal/mol
Frequency: 0.1948
Diversity: 2.81
MFE Structure Visualization
Structure Prediction
MFE Structure Prediction
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Thermodynamic Ensemble Prediction
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Forensic Context

A study in humans using massively parallel sequencing identified the mir-509-3-5p as an absolute specific marker (ASM) for semen, demonstrating its high specificity and moderate expression in this body fluid [Liu et al. DOI:10.3390/genes13091530].