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Human 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.

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