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Figure 4 | Molecular Cytogenetics

Figure 4

From: Body maps on the human genome

Figure 4

Antero-posterior “gradient of gradients” in nucleus. Tissue location in body correlates significantly with pattern of tissue genes positions in cell nucleus. (For datapoints each weighted by their own significance, r2 = 0.62; p < 0.01, two-tailed.) That is, tissue body-location relates to its genes distribution-gradient in the complete genome. The more forward-placed a tissue in the body, the more forward-placed its genes on chromosomes in nucleus. -- The head of the genome homunculus is at the head of the nucleus. Approximate loci of tissues on the antero-posterior axis of body are on a normalized 100-point scale.

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