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How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?

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作者Zhu, Jiang1,2; He, Fuhong1,2; Song, Shuhui1,2; Wang, Jing1; Yu, Jun1
刊名Bmc genomics
出版日期2008-04-16
卷号9页码:11
ISSN号1471-2164
DOI10.1186/1471-2164-9-172
通讯作者Wang, jing(wangjing@big.ac.cn)
英文摘要Background: housekeeping (hk) genes are ubiquitously expressed in all tissue/cell types and constitute a basal transcriptome for the maintenance of basic cellular functions. partitioning transcriptomes into hk and tissue-specific (ts) genes relatively is fundamental for studying gene expression and cellular differentiation. although many studies have aimed at large-scale and thorough categorization of human hk genes, a meaningful consensus has yet to be reached. results: we collected two latest gene expression datasets (both est and microarray data) from public databases and analyzed the gene expression profiles in 18 human tissues that have been well-documented by both two data types. benchmarked by a manually-curated hk gene collection (hk408), we demonstrated that present data from est sampling was far from saturated, and the inadequacy has limited the gene detectability and our understanding of ts expressions. due to a likely over-stringent threshold, microarray data showed higher false negative rate compared with est data, leading to a significant underestimation of hk genes. based on est data, we found that 40.0% of the currently annotated human genes were universally expressed in at least 16 of 18 tissues, as compared to only 5.1% specifically expressed in a single tissue. our current est-based estimate on human hk genes ranged from 3,140 to 6,909 in number, a ten-fold increase in comparison with previous microarray-based estimates. conclusion: we concluded that a significant fraction of human genes, at least in the currently annotated data depositories, was broadly expressed. our understanding of tissue-specific expression was still preliminary and required much more large-scale and high-quality transcriptomic data in future studies. the new hk gene list categorized in this study will be useful for genome-wide analyses on structural and functional features of hk genes.
WOS关键词TISSUE-SPECIFIC GENES ; RNA-POLYMERASE-II ; PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS ; GENOME-WIDE ; TRANSCRIPTION ; MOUSE ; SPECIFICITY ; COMPENDIUM ; PROTEINS ; UPDATE
WOS研究方向Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology ; Genetics & Heredity
WOS类目Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology ; Genetics & Heredity
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000256397900001
出版者BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
URI标识http://www.irgrid.ac.cn/handle/1471x/2392855
专题中国科学院大学
通讯作者Wang, Jing
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Genome Sci & Informat, Beijing Inst Genom, Beijing, Peoples R China
2.Grad Univ, Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
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Zhu, Jiang,He, Fuhong,Song, Shuhui,et al. How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?[J]. Bmc genomics,2008,9:11.
APA Zhu, Jiang,He, Fuhong,Song, Shuhui,Wang, Jing,&Yu, Jun.(2008).How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?.Bmc genomics,9,11.
MLA Zhu, Jiang,et al."How many human genes can be defined as housekeeping with current expression data?".Bmc genomics 9(2008):11.

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