Hi Catherine, Oddly enough, this exact question came up for us recently. We concluded that many of the mRNAs in GenBank with accessions that begin with "DQ" are piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs). However, on NCBI's key to accession prefixes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/acc.html the "DQ" prefix is listed merely as signifying a direct submission to GenBank. (In the absence of a more meaningful gene symbol, UCSC Genes can take their names from the RNA accessions used as evidence to support the existence of a gene.) So, we happen to know that many piRNAs have "DQ" accessions, but there is nothing that says that this is always the case. If you have further questions, please contact us again at [email protected]. -- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 12/1/11 4:19 AM, Mercer C.L. wrote: > Dear Helpdesk > > I routinely use the UCSC browser and find it very useful. I am > currently looking at a region on chromosome 15, and in that region > are many entries for 'DQ' genes. These are short, around 35 base > pairs, but I was hoping to find out what DQ means? > > I am looking at the region chr15:93,864,731-99,892,870, Build 37/19. > > I would be most grateful for an answer. > > With best wishes > > Catherine > > > > Catherine Mercer > > > > School of Medicine > > University of Southampton > > Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration > > Human Genetics > > The Duthie Building (MP808) > > Southampton General Hospital > > Tremona Road > > Southampton SO16 6YD > > > > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - > [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
