Dear All,

I study a protein coding gene called gene-A. The intron of this gene has 70-80% sequence identity with another region in the genome (where no protein coding gene exists). Let us call this region as region-X.

How do I bioinformatically predict the following:

1. Whether region-X has a microRNA coding gene?

2. Whether this microRNA is a likely regulator of gene-a.

Thank you!