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ArticleBlood2009

A HaemAtlas: characterizing gene expression in differentiated human blood cells.

Nicholas A Watkins, Arief Gusnanto, Bernard de Bono, Subhajyoti De, Diego Miranda-Saavedra, Debbie L Hardie, Will G J Angenent, Antony P Attwood, Peter D Ellis, Wendy Erber and 22 more

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Article in Blood, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 153 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

153 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors.

Nicholas A WatkinsDepartment of Haematology, University of Cambridge, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom. naw23@cam.ac.uk
Arief Gusnanto
Bernard de Bono
Subhajyoti De
Diego Miranda-Saavedra
Debbie L Hardie
Will G J Angenent
Antony P Attwood
Peter D Ellis
Wendy Erber
Nicola S Foad
Stephen F Garner
Clare M Isacke
Jennifer Jolley
Kerstin Koch
Iain C Macaulay
Sarah L Morley
Augusto Rendon
Kate M Rice
Niall Taylor
Daphne C Thijssen-Timmer
Marloes R Tijssen
C Ellen van der Schoot
Lorenz Wernisch
Thilo Winzer
Frank Dudbridge
Christopher D Buckley
Cordelia F Langford
Sarah Teichmann
Berthold Göttgens
Willem H Ouwehand
Bloodomics Consortium

Funding

Breast Cancer Now BREAST CANCER NOW RESEARCH CENTREMedical Research Council G0800784Medical Research Council MC_U105161047Medical Research Council MC_U105260799Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hematopoiesis is a carefully controlled process that is regulated by complex networks of transcription factors that are, in part, controlled by signals resulting from ligand binding to cell-surface receptors. To further understand hematopoiesis, we have compared gene expression profiles of human erythroblasts, megakaryocytes, B cells, cytotoxic and helper T cells, natural killer cells, granulocytes, and monocytes using whole genome microarrays. A bioinformatics analysis of these data was performed focusing on transcription factors, immunoglobulin superfamily members, and lineage-specific transcripts. We observed that the numbers of lineage-specific genes varies by 2 orders of magnitude, ranging from 5 for cytotoxic T cells to 878 for granulocytes. In addition, we have identified novel coexpression patterns for key transcription factors involved in hematopoiesis (eg, GATA3-GFI1 and GATA2-KLF1). This study represents the most comprehensive analysis of gene expression in hematopoietic cells to date and has identified genes that play key roles in lineage commitment and cell function. The data, which are freely accessible, will be invaluable for future studies on hematopoiesis and the role of specific genes and will also aid the understanding of the recent genome-wide association studies.

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Gene ExpressionAtlases as TopicBone Marrow CellsCell DifferentiationCell LineageCells, CulturedFlow CytometryGene Expression ProfilingHematopoiesisHumansOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors

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PMID19228925
PMCPMC2680378

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