| HGNC Family | Non-coding RNAs |
| Name | small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 21 |
| Description | This gene encodes a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) that may be involved in biogenesis of the large (28S) ribosomal subunit. This gene is found within an intron of the RPL5 gene. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2009] |
| Summary |
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| Synonyms | U21, RNU21 |
| NCBI Gene ID | 6083 |
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SNORD21 has 1,087 functional associations with biological entities spanning 4 categories (molecular profile, functional term, phrase or reference, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA) extracted from 16 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 SNORD21 gene relative to other cell lines from the CCLE Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| ChEA Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles | transcription factor binding site profiles with transcription factor binding evidence at the promoter of SNORD21 gene from the CHEA Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles dataset. | |
| ChEA Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors binding the promoter of SNORD21 gene in low- or high-throughput transcription factor functional studies from the CHEA Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| COSMIC Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles | cell lines with high or low copy number of SNORD21 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 SNORD21 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 SNORD21 gene from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles dataset. | |
| ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors binding the promoter of SNORD21 gene in ChIP-seq datasets from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles | tissues with high or low expression of SNORD21 gene relative to other tissues from the GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles | tissue samples with high or low expression of SNORD21 gene relative to other tissue samples from the GTEx Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| HPA Tissue Protein Expression Profiles | tissues with high or low expression of SNORD21 protein relative to other tissues from the HPA Tissue Protein Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors regulating expression of SNORD21 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 SNORD21 gene relative to other cell lines from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset. | |
| Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles | cell lines with high or low expression of SNORD21 gene relative to other cell lines from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles dataset. | |
| MotifMap Predicted Transcription Factor Targets | transcription factors regulating expression of SNORD21 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 SNORD21 gene from the Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles dataset. | |
| WikiPathways Pathways 2014 | pathways involving SNORD21 protein from the Wikipathways Pathways 2014 dataset. | |