Basic Information

Symbol
SOX2-OT
RNA class
lncRNA
Alias
DKFZp761J1324 ENSG00000242808 ENSG00000242808.1 ENSG00000242808.3 ENSG00000242808.7 ENSG00000242808.8 ENSG00000243341 ENSG00000243341.1 NCRNA00043 OTTHUMG00000158186.2 OTTHUMG00000158221.1 RP11-436A20.3 RP11-4B14.2
Location (GRCh38)
Forensic tag(s)
Forensic psychiatry evaluation Drug abuse diagnoses

Transcripts

ID Sequence Length GC content
SOX2-OT:48 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 775 nt 0.4929
SOX2-OT:49 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 746 nt 0.4651
SOX2-OT:5 ACGCGGAGGAGAAGGAAAGUCGCUCAAGCAGUGGACAGAGCGGAGAAAG… 1012 nt 0.4713
SOX2-OT:50 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 693 nt 0.4690
SOX2-OT:51 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 876 nt 0.4737
SOX2-OT:52 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 622 nt 0.4968
SOX2-OT:53 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 762 nt 0.4514
SOX2-OT:54 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 680 nt 0.4544
SOX2-OT:55 CAGGGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAA… 801 nt 0.5019
SOX2-OT:56 GGGAUUGCAGUGGCAAAGCUAGGCUAGGUCUUGGAGGCUGGUGUAAGGC… 581 nt 0.4974
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Summary

This gene produces alternatively spliced long non-coding RNAs. These RNAs were observed to be upregulated in tumor cells and positively correlated to expression of the SRY-box 2 gene. Overexpression of these transcripts may promote cell proliferation. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2017]

Forensic Context

A study in human postmortem brain tissue identified the long noncoding RNA SOX2-OT as being upregulated in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of subjects with opioid use disorder compared to non-psychiatric controls [Mendez et al. DOI:10.1038/s41380-021-01259-y].