Basic Information

Symbol
hsa-miR-18a-5p
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-5p
Sequence length
23 nt
GC content
0.4348
Forensic Context

A study in rats demonstrated that the miR-18a-5p was upregulated 3.85-fold in the striatum following heroin exposure, indicating its role as a heroin addiction biomarker [Pence et al. DOI:10.1007/S00221-024-06972-Y]. In human postmortem prefrontal cortex, the miR-18a-5p was found to be upregulated in subjects with schizophrenia [Smalheiser et al. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0086469].