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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-04-01
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Series: | BMC Genomics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/172 |