Reduced Detection of Human Orphan Gene Transcripts in Disease Tissue Relative to Expression- and Detection- Matched Controls
Human orphan genes are poorly annotated and lowly expressed, which makes their behavior in disease difficult to establish. We analyzed paired normal and disease RNA-seq libraries from four cohorts, quantified against a combined reference in which 2190 of 198,507 transcripts are orphan. Cohorts were first screened for l...