Human gene expression variability and its dependence on methylation and aging.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Phenotypic variability of human populations is partly the result of gene polymorphism and differential gene expression. As such, understanding the molecular basis for diversity requires identifying genes with both high and low population expression variance and identifying the mechanisms underlying their expression control. Key issues remain unanswered with respect to expression variability in human populations. The role of gene methylation as well as the contribution that age, sex and tissue-specific factors have on expression variability are not well understood.

Results

Here we used a novel method that accounts for sampling error to classify human genes based on their expression variability in normal human breast and brain tissues. We find that high expression v

SUBMITTER: Bashkeel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898959 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature