Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2209 (LINC02209)

Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2209 (LINC02209) is a gene that produces a long intergenic non-coding RNA transcript. LINC02209 does not encode a protein but instead generates a non-coding RNA molecule, which places it in the lincRNA subclass of long non-coding RNAs. LincRNAs are defined as autonomously transcribed non-coding RNAs longer than 200 nucleotides that do not overlap protein-coding genes[6]. The biological function and disease relevance of LINC02209 specifically have not been characterized in the biomedical literature or major genomic databases. In general, lincRNAs can be involved in modulation of gene expression, chromatin architecture, and various regulatory cellular processes, but no specific roles have yet been assigned to LINC02209[1][4][6][8].

Other names

LINC02209FAM183CPfamily with sequence similarity 183 member C, pseudogene