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ZFAT-AS1  -  ZFAT antisense RNA 1

Homo sapiens

Synonyms: NCRNA00070, SAS-ZFAT, ZFAT-AS, ZFATAS
 
 
 
 
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High impact information on SAS-ZFAT

  • In peripheral blood lymphocytes, SAS-ZFAT is exclusively expressed in CD19+ B cells and expression levels of SAS-ZFAT and TR-ZFAT seemed to correlate with the Ex9b-SNP10-T-associated ZFAT-allele, inversely and positively, respectively [1].
  • These results suggested that the SNP-associated ZFAT-allele plays a critical role in B cell function by affecting the expression level of TR-ZFAT through regulating SAS-ZFAT expression and that this novel regulatory mechanism of SNPs might be involved in controlling susceptibility or resistance to human disease [1].
  • SNPs in the promoter of a B cell-specific antisense transcript, SAS-ZFAT, determine susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disease [1].
  • The Ex9b-SNP10 falls into the 3'-UTR of truncated-ZFAT (TR-ZFAT) and the promoter region of the small antisense transcript of ZFAT (SAS-ZFAT) [1].

References

  1. SNPs in the promoter of a B cell-specific antisense transcript, SAS-ZFAT, determine susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disease. Shirasawa, S., Harada, H., Furugaki, K., Akamizu, T., Ishikawa, N., Ito, K., Ito, K., Tamai, H., Kuma, K., Kubota, S., Hiratani, H., Tsuchiya, T., Baba, I., Ishikawa, M., Tanaka, M., Sakai, K., Aoki, M., Yamamoto, K., Sasazuki, T. Hum. Mol. Genet. (2004) [Pubmed]
 
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