Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2306 (LINC02306)

LINC02306 is a long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) gene that produces a non-coding RNA transcript, meaning it does not encode a protein but may influence gene regulation, chromatin dynamics, or transcription in a cell-type-specific manner. LincRNAs are generally longer than 200 nucleotides, and do not overlap protein-coding genes; they can modulate transcription, RNA stabilization, or chromatin architecture, often in a highly tissue-specific way. LINC02306 is annotated in human single-cell transcriptomic datasets as being expressed in certain excitatory neurons of the cerebral cortex, but its precise functional role, disease relevance, or therapeutic targeting potential has not been established in the available literature.

Other names

LINC02306long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 2306