Open AccessHuman genes: Time to follow the roads less traveled?
Author(s) -
Ian Dunham
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000034
Subject(s) - biology , limelight , gene , human disease , computational biology , genetics , human genome , key (lock) , evolutionary biology , genome , ecology , electrical engineering , engineering
Determining the functions of human genes is a key objective for understanding disease and enabling development of new therapeutic approaches. A number of recent studies have shown that the amount of attention the research community gives to each of the more than 20,000 human genes is dramatically skewed toward specific, well-known genes. In this issue, Stoeger and colleagues uncover the factors that explain this bias and offer a way ahead to move more genes into the research limelight.