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Transcription in adult mouse tissues

ABSTRACT: We used Affymetrix Gene Arrays (1.0 ST) to compare gene expression across different murine tissues. Arrays were used to find disallowed genes in tissues. Different tissues were dissected from 10-12 week old C57Bl6 mice for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Lieven Thorrez

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-24940 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Tissue-specific disallowance of housekeeping genes: the other face of cell differentiation.

Thorrez Lieven L Laudadio Ilaria I Van Deun Katrijn K Quintens Roel R Hendrickx Nico N Granvik Mikaela M Lemaire Katleen K Schraenen Anica A Van Lommel Leentje L Lehnert Stefan S Aguayo-Mazzucato Cristina C Cheng-Xue Rui R Gilon Patrick P Van Mechelen Iven I Bonner-Weir Susan S Lemaigre Frédéric F Schuit Frans F

Genome research 20101118 1

We report on a hitherto poorly characterized class of genes that are expressed in all tissues, except in one. Often, these genes have been classified as housekeeping genes, based on their nearly ubiquitous expression. However, the specific repression in one tissue defines a special class of "disallowed genes." In this paper, we used the intersection-union test to screen for such genes in a multi-tissue panel of genome-wide mRNA expression data. We propose that disallowed genes need to be repress ...[more]

PMID: 21088282

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Transcription in adult mouse tissues

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Tissue-specific disallowance of housekeeping genes: the other face of cell differentiation.

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