Functionally enigmatic genes: A case study of the brain ignorome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Pandey, Ashutosh K ^a   Lu, Lu ^a   Wang, Xusheng ^a,b   Homayouni, Ramin ^c   Williams, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE STUDY; CEREBELLUM; D5BUC30E GENE; DENTATE GYRUS; DZANK1 GENE; ELMOD1 GENE; FAM123C GENE; FEMALE; FRRS1L GENE; GABRB1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PURKINJE CELL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TMEM88B GENE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NEUROSCIENCES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84895734902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088889     Document Type: Article

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