A new dimension for the human genome project: towards comprehensive expression maps.
The current Human Genome Project is largely devoted to structural characterisation of our genome. We now need international co-ordination of a second phase of genome analysis, the systematic construction of expression maps using both basic and high-resolution expression assays. Databases recording different types of expression pattern for a variety of human cell types need to be established and co-ordinated. There is a compelling need for a database of gene expression in early human development, but the scarcity of human material for study requires optimisation of research strategies and co-ordination of expression studies in early human and mouse development.
Strachan
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Department of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. tom.strachan@ncl.ac.uk
Abitbol
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Davidson
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Beckmann
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D000818:Animals; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice