Gene expression
A stroke of insight: Blood gene expression profiling for stroke patients
What can the analysis of gene expression in blood tell us about the brain? Quite a bit, apparently. In recent pilot studies, transcriptional profiling was performed on peripheral blood samples from patients with ischemic stroke. [More]
Quantitative trait transcripts: Looking for genes on the QT
In genetics, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping identifies genes associated with the inheritance of phenotypic traits. Quantitative trait transcripts (QTTs) are the basis of a new approach that can associate differences in expression levels of genes with continuous traits, without necessarily knowing the genomic locations of the sequence variations underlying these differences in transcription. [More]
Reading the mind of a mouse: A gene expression atlas of the mouse brain
All the money you may have spent over the years buying Microsoft Office is finally paying off, at least if you're interested in gene expression in the brain. The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle (funded by Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft) has recently announced the completion of an easily searchable, high-resolution 3D atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain. [More]
