Table 1 Number of housekeeping and tissue-specific genes
From: A comprehensive functional analysis of tissue specificity of human gene expression
Tissues | SN10 |
|---|---|
Housekeeping | 2374 |
Liver | 22 |
Skeletal muscle | 37 |
Fetal liver | 16 |
Testis | 484 |
Placenta | 38 |
Bone marrow | 63 |
Skin | 75 |
Adrenal gland | 13 |
Prostate | 14 |
Trachea | 16 |
Small intestine | 35 |
Peripheral blood lymphocytes | 49 |
Mammary gland | 16 |
Tonsil | 24 |
Thymus | 4 |
Spleen | 14 |
Fetal kidney | 5 |
Thyroid | 7 |
Brain | 34 |
Heart | 26 |
Lung | 16 |
Salivary gland | 17 |
Ovary | 15 |
Pancreas | 20 |
Fetal thymus | 8 |
Colon | 9 |
Spinal cord | 24 |
Retina | 190 |
Kidney | 17 |
Uterus | 12 |
Fetal brain | 61 |
Average | 43.8 |
Average, somatic tissues | 30.9 |