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The human transcriptome across tissues and individuals

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Melé, Marta, Ferreira, Pedro G., Reverter, Ferran, DeLuca, David S., Monlong, Jean, Sammeth, Michael, Young, Taylor R., Goldmann, Jakob M +14 more·2015·Science

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Expression, genetic variation, and tissues: Human genomes show extensive genetic variation across individuals, but we have only just started documenting the effects of this variation on the regulation of gene expression. Furthermore, only a few tissues have been examined per genetic variant. In order to examine how genetic expression varies among tissues within individuals, the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium collected 1641 postmortem samples covering 54 body sites from 175 individuals. They identified quantitative genetic traits that affect gene expression and determined which of these exhibit tissue-specific expression patterns. Melé et al.measured how transcription varies among tissues, and Rivas et al.looked at how truncated protein variants affect expression across tissues. Science, this issue p.648, p.660, p.666; see also p.640

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Melé, M., Ferreira, P. G., Reverter, F., DeLuca, D. S., Monlong, J., Sammeth, M., Young, T. R., Goldmann, J. M., Pervouchine, D. D., Sullivan, T. J., Johnson, R., Segrè, A. V., Djebali, S., Niarchou, A., Consortium, T. G., Wright, F. A., Lappalainen, T., Calvo, M., Getz, G., Dermitzakis, E. T., Ardlie, K. G., & Guigó, R.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of Geneva (CH)
  • Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
  • Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
  • North Carolina State University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Melé, Marta
  • Ferreira, Pedro G.
  • Ardlie, Kristin G.
  • Guigó, Roderic
Venue
Science
Published
2015-05-08
Volume
348
Issue
6235
Pages
660-665
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W1816176398
Cited by
1,304
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 44 · 2025: 84 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 87 · 2022: 105 · 2021: 140 · 2020: 148 · 2019: 111 · 2018: 153 · 2017: 158 · 2016: 116 · 2015: 52 · 2014: 2
FWCI
69.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • United States National Institutes of Health (HHSN261200800001E, 10XS170, 10XS171, 10X172, 12ST1039, 10ST1035, HHSN268201000029C, R01 DA006227-17, R01 MH090941)
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • National Human Genome Research Institute
  • National Cancer Institute
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • European Research Council
  • Louis-Jeantet Foundation
  • Swiss National Science Foundation
  • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (R01 MH090936)
  • Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (BIO2011-26205)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Keywords
human transcriptome, tissue-specific gene expression, GTEx, blood transcriptome, sex differences, ethnicity, age effects
MeSH terms
Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Male, Organ Specificity, Phenotype, Sex Factors, Genome, Human, Alternative Splicing, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Gene Expression Profiling, Transcriptome

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