Large-scale investigation of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored.

Biomedical research has been previously reported to primarily focus on a minority of all known genes. Here, we demonstrate that these differences in attention can be explained, to a large extent, exclusively from a small set of identifiable chemical, physical, and biological properties of genes. Tog...

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Main Authors: Thomas Stoeger, Martin Gerlach, Richard I Morimoto, Luís A Nunes Amaral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-09-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006643