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ArticleMolecular systems biology2020

Mammalian gene expression variability is explained by underlying cell state.

Robert Foreman, Roy Wollman

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Article in Molecular systems biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52 citing papers in PubMed, 145 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert ForemanInstitute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Roy WollmanInstitute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3865-2605
QB3 · US

Funding

The Spread of Noisy Information in Corneal Epithelial Wound Response SignalingR01EY024960 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WOLLMAN, ROY · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Reliable Signal TransductionR01GM111404 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WOLLMAN, ROY · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024960NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM111404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene expression variability in mammalian systems plays an important role in physiological and pathophysiological conditions. This variability can come from differential regulation related to cell state (extrinsic) and allele-specific transcriptional bursting (intrinsic). Yet, the relative contribution of these two distinct sources is unknown. Here, we exploit the qualitative difference in the patterns of covariance between these two sources to quantify their relative contributions to expression variance in mammalian cells. Using multiplexed error robust RNA fluorescent in situ hybridization (MERFISH), we measured the multivariate gene expression distribution of 150 genes related to Ca

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Calcium SignalingCell CycleCell LineCell SizeFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceRNA, MessengerSingle-Cell AnalysisSystems BiologyRNA, MessengerCa2+ signalinggene expressionMERFISHsingle celltranscriptional bursting

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PMID32043799
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