Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 608 (LINC00608)

Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 608 (LINC00608) is a human long non-coding RNA gene located at chromosome 2q35 (base pairs 218,974,299 to 218,989,940)[3][1]. It belongs to the class of *long non-coding RNAs* (lncRNAs), which are transcribed RNA molecules longer than 200 nucleotides that do not encode proteins but may regulate gene expression at various levels, including chromatin modification, transcription, and post-transcriptional processing[7]. There is no evidence in current databases or literature that LINC00608 functions as a therapeutic target, drug target, enzyme, transporter, or receptor. It has been included in some genome-wide association and gene expression studies, often as part of panels for transcriptomic profiling or as a neighboring gene at loci associated with disease risk, but without direct implication as a functional driver or therapeutic target[1][7]. No drugs are currently known to target LINC00608, and it is not used as a clinical biomarker.

Other names

LINC00608Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 608

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