| HGNC Family | Non-coding RNAs |
| Name | small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 115-6 |
| Description | Predicted to be involved in RNA processing. Predicted to be located in nucleolus. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Mar 2025] |
| Summary |
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| Synonyms | HBII-52-6 |
| NCBI Gene ID | 100033443 |
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SNORD115-6 has 172 functional associations with biological entities spanning 4 categories (molecular profile, chemical, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA) extracted from 10 datasets.
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| Dataset | Summary | |
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| CCLE Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles | cell lines with high or low copy number of SNORD115-6 gene relative to other cell lines from the CCLE Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| COSMIC Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles | cell lines with high or low copy number of SNORD115-6 gene relative to other cell lines from the COSMIC Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| CTD Gene-Chemical Interactions | chemicals interacting with SNORD115-6 gene/protein from the curated CTD Gene-Chemical Interactions dataset. | |
| ENCODE Histone Modification Site Profiles | histone modification site profiles with high histone modification abundance at SNORD115-6 gene from the ENCODE Histone Modification Site Profiles dataset. | |
| ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles | transcription factor binding site profiles with transcription factor binding evidence at the promoter of SNORD115-6 gene from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles dataset. | |
| ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors binding the promoter of SNORD115-6 gene in ChIP-seq datasets from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors regulating expression of SNORD115-6 gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the JASPAR Predicted Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles | cell lines with high or low copy number of SNORD115-6 gene relative to other cell lines from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| KnockTF Gene Expression Profiles with Transcription Factor Perturbations | transcription factor perturbations changing expression of SNORD115-6 gene from the KnockTF Gene Expression Profiles with Transcription Factor Perturbations dataset. | |
| Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles | histone modification site profiles with high histone modification abundance at SNORD115-6 gene from the Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles dataset. | |