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Human functional genetic studies are biased against the medically most relevant primate-specific genes

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作者Hao, Lili1,2; Ge, Xiaomeng1; Wan, Haolei1; Hu, Songnian1; Lercher, Martin J.3; Yu, Jun1; Chen, Wei-Hua4
刊名Bmc evolutionary biology
出版日期2010-10-20
卷号10页码:8
ISSN号1471-2148
DOI10.1186/1471-2148-10-316
通讯作者Yu, jun(junyu@big.ac.cn)
英文摘要Background: many functional, structural and evolutionary features of human genes have been observed to correlate with expression breadth and/or gene age. here, we systematically explore these correlations. results: gene age and expression breadth are strongly correlated, but contribute independently to the variation of functional, structural and evolutionary features, even when we take account of variation in mrna expression level. human genes without orthologs in distant species ('young' genes) tend to be tissue-specific in their expression. as computational inference of gene function often relies on the existence of homologs in other species, and experimental characterization is facilitated by broad and high expression, young, tissue-specific human genes are often the least characterized. at the same time, young genes are most likely to be medically relevant. conclusions: our results indicate that functional characterization of human genes is biased against young, tissue-specific genes that are mostly medically relevant. the biases should not be taken lightly because they may pose serious obstacles to our understanding of the molecular basis of human diseases. future studies should thus be designed to specifically explore the properties of primate-specific genes.
WOS关键词EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN ; TISSUE-SPECIFICITY ; EXPRESSION ; ONTOLOGY
WOS研究方向Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity
WOS类目Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000285338500002
出版者BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
URI标识http://www.irgrid.ac.cn/handle/1471x/2410203
专题中国科学院大学
通讯作者Yu, Jun
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing Inst Gen, CAS Key Lab Genome Sci & Informat, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
3.Univ Dusseldorf, Bioinformat Grp, D-40225 Dusseldorf, Germany
4.European Mol Biol Lab, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Hao, Lili,Ge, Xiaomeng,Wan, Haolei,et al. Human functional genetic studies are biased against the medically most relevant primate-specific genes[J]. Bmc evolutionary biology,2010,10:8.
APA Hao, Lili.,Ge, Xiaomeng.,Wan, Haolei.,Hu, Songnian.,Lercher, Martin J..,...&Chen, Wei-Hua.(2010).Human functional genetic studies are biased against the medically most relevant primate-specific genes.Bmc evolutionary biology,10,8.
MLA Hao, Lili,et al."Human functional genetic studies are biased against the medically most relevant primate-specific genes".Bmc evolutionary biology 10(2010):8.

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