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Transcriptional Noise and Somatic Mutations in the Aging Pancreas.
Cell metabolism - 5 Dec 2017
Swisa Avital, Kaestner Klaus H, Dor Yuval
Abstract excerpt
The underlying mechanisms and functional significance of pancreatic β cell heterogeneity are an intensive area of investigation. In a recent Cell paper, Enge and colleagues (2017) performed single-cell RNA sequencing of human pancreatic cells and concluded that with age, pancreatic cells become transcriptionally noisy and accumulate somatic mutations.
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