Basic Information

Symbol
hsa-mir-20a
RNA class
miRNA miRNA hairpin
Alias
MIR20A MicroRNA 20a Hsa-MiR-20a-5p Hsa-MiR-20a-3p Hsa-Mir-20a Hsa-Mir-20 MIRN20A MIRN20 Putative MicroRNA 17 Host Gene Protein Putative MicroRNA Host Gene 1 Protein Hsa-Mir-17-P4a_pre MIMAT0000075 MIMAT0004493 MicroRNA 20 MI0000076 C13orf25 MiRNA20A MIR17HG Mir-20a MIRHG1 MiR-20 MIR20 MIRH1
Location (GRCh38)
13:91351065-91351135
UCSC Genome Browser Search in Marker Scope
Forensic tag(s)
Tissue/body fluid identification Mechanical injury analysis
External database
HGNC NCBI Ensembl OMIM miRBase RNAcentral

Sequence & Structure

Transcript ID
hsa-mir-20a
Sequence length
71 nt
GC content
0.3803

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
-31.00 kcal/mol
Thermodynamic ensemble
Free energy: -32.45 kcal/mol
Frequency: 0.0959
Diversity: 4.61
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-20a is a highly over-expressed miRNA marker for venous blood identification, confirmed by RT-PCR validation [Zubakov et al. DOI:10.1007/s00414-009-0402-3]. Separately, research in human serum identified the mir-20a as being upregulated in patients with mild traumatic brain injury at baseline compared to controls [Polito et al. DOI:10.1007/s11033-020-05386-7].