Why Some Human Genes Are More Popular with Researchers than Others (IMAGE)

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Why Some Human Genes Are More Popular with Researchers than Others

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Hot and cold regions of biology. Genes (dots) are mapped according to generic chemical and biological characteristics. Blue indicates cold regions, where genes are studied less frequently than anticipated under the assumption that every gene would be studied to the same extent.

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Thomas Stoeger

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