Basic Information

Symbol
hsa-miR-18a-3p
RNA class
miRNA mature miRNA
Alias
hsa-miR-18a MIR18A MicroRNA 18a
Location (GRCh38)
-
Forensic tag(s)
Drug abuse diagnoses Forensic psychiatry evaluation
External database
miRBase RNAcentral

Sequence & Structure

Transcript ID
hsa-miR-18a-3p
Sequence length
23 nt
GC content
0.5652
Forensic Context

A study in rats demonstrated that heroin exposure significantly alters brain microRNA profiles, with the miR-18a-3p upregulated 3.12-fold specifically in the striatum of heroin-addicted Wistar rats [Pence et al. DOI:10.1007/S00221-024-06972-Y]. In human postmortem prefrontal cortex, the miR-18a-3p was upregulated in subjects with schizophrenia [Smalheiser et al. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0086469].