Basic Information

Symbol
piR-hsa-9279
RNA class
piRNA
Alias
hsa-piR-9054 DQ578966.1 hsa_piRNA_14993 hsa_piR_006557 piR-47078 URS0000366376 PIR40077
Location (GRCh38)
3:195943941-195943968
UCSC Genome Browser Search in Marker Scope
Forensic tag(s)
Tissue/body fluid identification
External database
piRBase piRNAdb RNAcentral

Sequence & Structure

Transcript
piR-hsa-9279
Sequence length
28 nt
GC content
0.5357

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
-3.90 kcal/mol
Thermodynamic ensemble
Free energy: -4.49 kcal/mol
Frequency: 0.3844
Diversity: 6.17
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 expression profiles of the piR-hsa-9279 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-9279 as an absolute specific marker for semen, demonstrating high specificity in pairwise comparisons with other body fluids [Liu et al. DOI:10.3390/genes13091530].