TUG1

TUG1
Identifiers
AliasesTUG1, LINC00080, NCRNA00080, TI-227H, taurine up-regulated 1 (non-protein coding)
External IDsOMIM: 614971; GeneCards: TUG1; OMA:TUG1 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

55000

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Ensembl

ENSG00000253352

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UniProt

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RefSeq (mRNA)

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RefSeq (protein)

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Location (UCSC)n/an/a
PubMed searchn/a
Wikidata
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TUG1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) is a long non-coding RNA expressed in the retina and in the brain. It was first identified in a screen for genes upregulated by in developing retinal cells in response to taurine. It is required for the normal development of photoreceptors in the retina.