Transcriptional Noise and Somatic Mutations in the Aging Pancreas.

Swisa, Avital; Kaestner, Klaus H; Dor, Yuval · Cell Metab · 2017

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Abstract

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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