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

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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 rela...

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Main Authors: Song Shuhui, He Fuhong, Zhu Jiang, Wang Jing, Yu Jun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-04-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/172