Transcriptome of human white and brown adipose tissue biopsies

We analyzed coding transcript abundance in paired biopsies of white and brown adipose tissue obtained from the supraclavicular region of 15 healthy subjects. In a prior experiment measuring 18F-deoxyglucose uptake by PET-CT, 9 subjects displayed active brown fat and 6 did not. Overall design: Paired white and brown fat biopsies from 15 human probands, 9 brown fat positive and 6 brown fat negative judged by 18FDG-PET-CT.