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ReviewMolecular systems biology2016

Transcriptomics resources of human tissues and organs.

Mathias Uhlén, Björn M Hallström, Cecilia Lindskog, Adil Mardinoglu, Fredrik Pontén, Jens Nielsen

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Review in Molecular systems biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mathias UhlénScience for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Proteomics, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark mathias.uhlen@scilifelab.se.
Björn M HallströmScience for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Proteomics, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Cecilia LindskogDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5611-1015
Adil MardinogluScience for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4254-6090
Fredrik PonténDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0703-3940
Jens NielsenScience for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9955-6003

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantifying the differential expression of genes in various human organs, tissues, and cell types is vital to understand human physiology and disease. Recently, several large-scale transcriptomics studies have analyzed the expression of protein-coding genes across tissues. These datasets provide a framework for defining the molecular constituents of the human body as well as for generating comprehensive lists of proteins expressed across tissues or in a tissue-restricted manner. Here, we review publicly available human transcriptome resources and discuss body-wide data from independent genome-wide transcriptome analyses of different tissues. Gene expression measurements from these independent datasets, generated using samples from fresh frozen surgical specimens and postmortem tissues, are consistent. Overall, the different genome-wide analyses support a distribution in which many proteins are found in all tissues and relatively few in a tissue-restricted manner. Moreover, we discuss the applications of publicly available omics data for building genome-scale metabolic models, used for analyzing cell and tissue functions both in physiological and in disease contexts.

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Gene ExpressionDatabases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansModels, BiologicalOrgan SpecificitySequence Analysis, RNAgenome‐scale metabolic modelsproteomicstranscriptomics

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PMID27044256
PMCPMC4848759

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