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. 1992 Nov;2(3):173-9.
doi: 10.1038/ng1192-173.

Large scale cDNA sequencing for analysis of quantitative and qualitative aspects of gene expression

K Okubo  1 , N Hori, R Matoba, T Niiyama, A Fukushima, Y Kojima, K Matsubara
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Large scale cDNA sequencing for analysis of quantitative and qualitative aspects of gene expression

K Okubo et al. Nat Genet. 1992 Nov.

Abstract

Large scale sequencing of cDNAs provides a complementary approach to structural analysis of the human genome by generating expressed sequence tags (ESTs). We have initiated the large-scale sequencing of a 3'-directed cDNA library from the human liver cell line HepG2, that is a non-biased representation of the mRNA population. 982 random cDNA clones were sequenced yielding more than 270 kilobases. A significant portion of the identified genes encoded secretable proteins and components for protein-synthesis. The abundance of cDNA species varied from 2.2% to less than 0.004%. Fifty two percent of the mRNA were abundant species consisting of 173 genes and the rest were non-abundant, consisting of about 6,600 genes.

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  • Shake that 'body map'.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Nat Genet. 1992 Nov;2(3):167-8. doi: 10.1038/ng1192-167. Nat Genet. 1992. PMID: 1345162 No abstract available.

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