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Further understanding human disease genes by comparing with housekeeping genes and other genes.

BMC genomics | 2006

Several studies have compared various features of heritable disease genes with other so called non-disease genes, but they have yielded some conflicting results. A potential problem in those studies is that the non-disease genes contained a large number of essential genes--genes which are indispensable for humans to survive and reproduce. Since a functional disruption of an essential gene has fatal consequences, it's more reasonable to regard essential genes as extremely severe "disease" genes. Here we perform a comparative study on the features of human essential, disease, and other genes.

Pubmed ID: 16504025 RIS Download

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  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P50 HG002790
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P50 HG 002790

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