TUG1

 TUG1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) is a long non-coding RNA expressed in the retina and in the brain. It was first identified in a screen for genes upregulated by in developing retinal cells in response to taurine. It is required for the normal development of photoreceptors in the retina.^[2]

TUG1
Identifiers
Aliases	TUG1, LINC00080, NCRNA00080, TI-227H, taurine up-regulated 1 (non-protein coding)
External IDs	OMIM: 614971 GeneCards: TUG1
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	55000	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000253352	n/a
UniProt	n a	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	n/a	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	n/a	n/a
Location (UCSC)	n/a	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a
Wikidata
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