Short Interspersed Element

Preferred Label : Short Interspersed Element;

NCIt synonyms : SINES; SINE; Short Interspersed Nuclear Element;

NCIt definition : SINEs. Short, 100-300 bases long, highly repeated sequences which contain RNA polymerase III promoters. The primate Alu and the rodent B1 SINEs are derived from 7SL RNA, the RNA component of the signal recognition particle. Most other SINEs are derived from tRNAs including the MIRs (mammalian-wide interspersed repeats).;

Details

Origin ID

C13804;

UMLS CUI

C0600477;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- short interspersed nucleotide elements [MeSH concept]
- short interspersed nucleotide elements [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Nucleotide Sequence [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- short interspersed nucleotide elements [MeSH concept]
- short interspersed nucleotide elements [MeSH Descriptor]

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