Basic Information

Symbol
hsa-mir-891a
RNA class
miRNA miRNA hairpin
Alias
MIR891A MicroRNA 891a Hsa-Mir-891a Hsa-MiR-891a-5p MIRN891A Hsa-MiR-891a-3p MIMAT0004902 MIMAT0026717 MI0005524
Location (GRCh38)
3:189829922-189830009
UCSC Genome Browser Search in Marker Scope
Forensic tag(s)
Tissue/body fluid identification
External database
HGNC NCBI Ensembl miRBase RNAcentral

Sequence & Structure

Transcript ID
hsa-mir-891a
Sequence length
79 nt
GC content
0.4304

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
-34.70 kcal/mol
Thermodynamic ensemble
Free energy: -35.88 kcal/mol
Frequency: 0.1469
Diversity: 4.64
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 demonstrated that the mir-891a exhibited exclusive specific amplification in semen samples, confirming its semen specificity [Sauer et al. DOI:10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.01.018]. Another human study noted that the mir-891a showed a good body fluid-specific expression pattern for semen in their dataset [Park et al. DOI:10.1002/elps.201400075].