BMC Genomics

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Widespread ectopic expression of olfactory receptor genes

Ester Feldmesser1, Tsviya Olender1, Miriam Khen1, Itai Yanai1,3, Ron Ophir2 and Doron Lancet1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

2 Department of Biological Services, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

3 Present address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

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BMC Genomics 2006, 7:121 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-121

Published: 22 May 2006

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A list of the ORs found to be expressed is provided in Additional file 1

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A figure showing ectopic OR expression including unique probesets whose specificity and sensitivity are 1 is shown in Additional file 2

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The hierarchical clustering of differentially expressed ORs is in Additional file 3

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Figures showing ectopic expression of brain specific and spermatogenesis related genes across 61 human tissues are shown in Additional file 4

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Figures showing ectopic expression of brain specific and spermatogenesis related genes across 48 mouse tissues are shown in Additional file 5

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A comparison between expected and observed combinations of expressed and non-expressed OR genes in the experiments of Su et al. and Zhang et al., is available in Additional file 6

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The sensitivity and specificity scores for the probesets representing OR genes are available in Additional file 7

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