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Table 1 The 49 human tissues and their tissue-specific genes with at least 25 SNPs. A total of 305,572 genes is listed

From: A novel feature extraction method based on highly expressed SNPs for tissue-specific gene prediction

No.

Tissue

Gene

No.

Tissue

Gene

1

Adipose subcutaneous

10,884

26

Esophagus mucosa

10,143

2

Adipose visceral omentum

8295

27

Esophagus muscularis

9862

3

Adrenal gland

4878

28

Heart atrial appendage

7142

4

Artery aorta

8533

29

Heart left ventricle

6286

5

Artery coronary

3625

30

Kidney cortex

615

6

Artery tibial

10,730

31

Liver

3287

7

Brain amygdala

1925

32

Lung

9536

8

Brain anterior cingulate cortex

2961

33

Minor salivary gland

2418

9

Brain caudate basal ganglia

4779

34

Muscle skeletal

9467

10

Brain cerebellar hemisphere

5947

35

Nerve tibial

12,662

11

Brain cerebellum

7204

36

Ovary

3105

12

Brain cortex

5418

37

Pancreas

6275

13

Brain frontal cortex

4179

38

Pituitary

5692

14

Brain hippocampus

3007

39

Prostate

4146

15

Brain hypothalamus

3050

40

Skin not sun exposed suprapubic

10,416

16

Brain nucleus accumbens basal ganglia

4722

41

Skin sun exposed lower leg

11,829

17

Brain putamen basal ganglia

3877

42

Small intestine terminal ileum

3481

18

Brain spinal cord cervical

2390

43

Spleen

6394

19

Brain substantia nigra

1646

44

Stomach

5344

20

Breast mammary

7003

45

Testis

12,612

21

Cells cultured fibroblasts

10,845

46

Thyroid

12,805

22

Cells EBV transformed lymphocytes

2551

47

Uterus

1817

23

Colon sigmoid

6688

48

Vagina

1816

24

Colon transverse

7417

49

Whole blood

8940

25

Esophagus gastroesophageal junction

6928