mir-52 encodes a microRNA (miRNA), a small noncoding RNA that is likely involved in posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression; miR-52 is expressed at highest levels in L1 larvae, but is also detected at all other stages of development and in him-8 mutant animals and dauer and starved L1 larvae; biochemical studies indicate that miR-52 appears to be associated with distinct ribonucleoprotein complexes at different stages of development.
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.