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Published on: October 6, 2023
De Novo Transcriptomic Approach to Study Thyroid Hormone Receptor Action in Non-mammalian Models
Nicolas Buisine1, Gwenneg Kerdivel1, Laurent M Sachs2
1Function and Mechanism of Action of Thyroid Hormone Receptor group, UMR 7221 CNRS and Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France.
Abstract:
Thyroid hormones are pleiotropic hormones involved in chordates physiology. Understanding their functions and mechanisms is also instrumental to diagnose dys-regulations and get a predictive power that can applied to medicine, ecology, etc. Today, high-throughput sequencing technologies offer the opportunity to address this issue not only in model organisms but also in non-model organisms. Here, we describe a method that makes use of RNA-seq to address differential expression analysis in non-model organism.
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