Aging shapes the population-mean and -dispersion of gene expression in human brains

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Brinkmeyer Langford, Candice L ^a   Guan, Jinting ^b   Ji, Guoli ^b   Cai, James J ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain transcriptome; Expression dispersion; Expression quantitative trait loci; Factor analysis; Gene expression; Gene expression profiling; Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx); Statistical

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; C1QA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EUROPEAN; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IL7R GENE; MS4A4E GENE; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; RNA SPLICING; TERF1 GENE; TERF2 GENE; TP37 GENE;

EID: 84990032205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00183     Document Type: Article

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