Human accelerated region 1

Highly accelerated region 1A/1B
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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