Question about mRNA identifier name

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Rao,Ganesh

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Mar 21, 2013, 5:31:48 PM3/21/13

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Is the uc code for this gene the UCSC unique identifier or is it the illumine (or other RNA expression array equivalent)?  I was able to search for this transcript variant using the Broad’s firehose data, but I want to know what this identifier means and where it comes from.

BIRC5 (uc010dhl.1) at chr17:76210277-76219073

Thank you very much,

Ganesh

Ganesh Rao, M.D.

Department of Neurosurgery

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

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Pauline Fujita

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Mar 22, 2013, 3:12:48 PM3/22/13

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Hello Ganesh,

uc010dhl.1 is the unique identifier given to this transcript variant
within the "UCSC genes" gene prediction dataset. These identifiers are
generated when we create this track here at UCSC, and updated if the
transcript changes. You can read more about the UCSC genes track on
its description page here:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?g=knownGene

Hopefully that is enough to get you started. If you have further
questions please feel free to contact the mailing list again at
gen...@soe.ucsc.edu.

Best regards,

Pauline Fujita
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu