Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

The effects of death and post-mortem cold ischemia on human tissue transcriptomes

  • Pedro G. Ferreira,
  • Manuel Muñoz-Aguirre,
  • Ferran Reverter,
  • Caio P. Sá Godinho,
  • Abel Sousa,
  • Alicia Amadoz,
  • Reza Sodaei,
  • Marta R. Hidalgo,
  • Dmitri Pervouchine,
  • Jose Carbonell-Caballero,
  • Ramil Nurtdinov,
  • Alessandra Breschi,
  • Raziel Amador,
  • Patrícia Oliveira,
  • Cankut Çubuk,
  • João Curado,
  • François Aguet,
  • Carla Oliveira,
  • Joaquin Dopazo,
  • Michael Sammeth,
  • Kristin G. Ardlie,
  • Roderic Guigó

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02772-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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RNA levels in post-mortem tissue can differ greatly from those before death. Studying the effect of post-mortem interval on the transcriptome in 36 human tissues, Ferreira et al. find that the response to death is largely tissue-specific and develop a model to predict time since death based on RNA data.