title: Assessment of human gene diversity and expression patterns using expressed sequence tags.
abstract: ESTs provide a cheap and effective short-cut for identifying the majority of an organism's genes. Surveys of ESTs can provide a global view of the gene-expression patterns that distinguish different tissues or cell types. The large collection of human ESTs will soon permit the majority of genes to be placed on a chromosomal map.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Kirkness
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015870:Gene Expression; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009928:Organ Specificity; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D016324:Sequence Tagged Sites