Functionally enigmatic genes: a case study of the brain ignorome.

What proportion of genes with intense and selective expression in specific tissues, cells, or systems are still almost completely uncharacterized with respect to biological function? In what ways do these functionally enigmatic genes differ from well-studied genes? To address these two questions, we...

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Main Authors: Ashutosh K Pandey, Lu Lu, Xusheng Wang, Ramin Homayouni, Robert W Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3921226?pdf=render