Basic Information

Symbol
hsa-mir-138-2
RNA class
miRNA miRNA hairpin
Alias
MIR138-2 MicroRNA 138-2 Hsa-MiR-138-2-3p Hsa-MiR-138-5p Hsa-Mir-138-2 MIRN138-2 Hsa-Mir-138-P2_pre MIMAT0000430 MIMAT0004596 Mir-138-2 MI0000455
Location (GRCh38)
3:188688781-188688866
UCSC Genome Browser Search in Marker Scope
Forensic tag(s)
Tissue/body fluid identification
External database
HGNC NCBI Ensembl OMIM miRBase RNAcentral

Sequence & Structure

Transcript ID
hsa-mir-138-2
Sequence length
84 nt
GC content
0.5714

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
-34.40 kcal/mol
Thermodynamic ensemble
Free energy: -36.04 kcal/mol
Frequency: 0.0704
Diversity: 12.64
MFE Structure Visualization
Structure Prediction
MFE Structure Prediction
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Thermodynamic Ensemble Prediction
...{(,{(({{(((((((((((((...(((((..(((.((......)))))...)))))..))))))))))))}.))}))).}.
Forensic Context

A study in human samples tested hsa-miR-138-2 in singleplex PCRs for saliva identification but found it was not saliva-specific [Bamberg et al. DOI:10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102707].