Gene expression profiles of 25 normal human tissues

We performed microarray experiments to identify genes specifically expressed in human tissues and investigated association of recombination rates with the tissue-specific genes. Keywords: Human tissue comparison Microarray was used to produce a transcriptional profile of normal human tissues representing 25 distinct tissue types. A reference sample (universal tissue mix) was prepared by mixing an equal amount of aRNA from each tissue. All samples used pooled RNA from at least 3 people. Two independent replicates were obtained using dye-swap. Normalization was performed with LOWESS method.