Basic Information

Symbol
piR-hsa-8031
RNA class
piRNA
Alias
hsa-piR-7860 DQ577772.1 hsa_piRNA_16187 hsa_piR_005660 piR-45884 URS000008666A PIR38883
Location (GRCh38)
14:73588832-73588859
UCSC Genome Browser Search in Marker Scope
Forensic tag(s)
Tissue/body fluid identification
External database
piRBase piRNAdb RNAcentral

Sequence & Structure

Transcript
piR-hsa-8031
Sequence length
28 nt
GC content
0.5714

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
-7.40 kcal/mol
Thermodynamic ensemble
Free energy: -7.52 kcal/mol
Frequency: 0.8175
Diversity: 1.48
MFE Structure Visualization
Structure Prediction
MFE Structure Prediction
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Forensic Context

A study in humans demonstrated that the expression profiles of the piR-hsa-8031 collectively exhibited acceptable discriminating ability for most forensically relevant biological samples, including venous blood, menstrual blood, saliva, semen, vaginal secretions, and skin [Wang et al. DOI:10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.07.015]. A study in humans using massively parallel sequencing identified the piR-hsa-8031 as an absolute specific marker for semen, demonstrating high specificity in five out of five pairwise comparisons with other body fluids/tissues and moderate expression [Liu et al. DOI:10.3390/genes13091530].