| HGNC Family | Non-coding RNAs |
| Name | small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 121A |
| 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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This mechanism ensures the balanced cell surface expression of IgD and IgM, which is critical for proper B cell maturation and function."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "1", "end_ref": "3"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n\n"}, {"type": "p", "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "\nOther abstracts describe related zinc finger proteins with prominent expression in the testis. For example, alternative splice variants TZF and TZF‐L are expressed during spermatogenesis, where they appear to modulate transcriptional regulation, including regulation of androgen receptor–mediated gene activation and repression. In addition, ZFP318 itself has been implicated in germ cell development, with its loss leading to defects in meiotic progression and a reduction in mature spermatozoa. These studies underscore a broader role for zinc finger proteins in both immune regulation (via control of Ig splice variants) and reproductive biology."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "4", "end_ref": "6"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n"}]}, {"type": "rg", "children": [{"type": "r", "ref": 1, "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "Anselm Enders, Alanna Short, Lisa A Miosge, et al. 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| NCBI Gene ID | 100113379 |
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SNORD121A has 220 functional associations with biological entities spanning 3 categories (molecular profile, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA) extracted from 10 datasets.
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If available, associations are ranked by standardized value
| Dataset | Summary | |
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| CCLE Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles | cell lines with high or low copy number of SNORD121A 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 SNORD121A gene relative to other cell lines from the COSMIC Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| ENCODE Histone Modification Site Profiles | histone modification site profiles with high histone modification abundance at SNORD121A 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 SNORD121A gene from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles dataset. | |
| ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors binding the promoter of SNORD121A gene in ChIP-seq datasets from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles | tissues with high or low expression of SNORD121A gene relative to other tissues from the GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors regulating expression of SNORD121A 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 SNORD121A gene relative to other cell lines from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| MotifMap Predicted Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors regulating expression of SNORD121A gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the MotifMap Predicted Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles | histone modification site profiles with high histone modification abundance at SNORD121A gene from the Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles dataset. | |