RNA measurements may yield less insight about gene expression than assumed

Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

The majority of RNA expression differences between individuals have no connection to the abundance of a corresponding protein, report scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University in Science on Dec. 18. The findings point to a yet-unidentified cellular mechanism that regulates gene expression and suggest studies that rely only on RNA measurements to characterize gene function require further analysis.

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