| Highly accelerated region 1A/1B | |
|---|---|
 Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of HAR1A | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | HAR1A |
| Rfam | RF00635 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Gene; lncRNA |
| Domain(s) | Eukaryota; |
| SO | SO:0001463 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
In molecular biology, Human Accelerated Region 1 (Highly Accelerated Region 1, HAR1) is a segment of the human genome found on the long arm of chromosome 20. It is a human accelerated region. It is located within a pair of overlapping long non-coding RNA genes, HAR1A (HAR1F) and HAR1B (HAR1R).[1]
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