What Are Housekeeping Genes?

Housekeeping genes refer to a class of genes that are to be stably expressed in all cells, and their products are necessary for maintaining the basic life activities of cells. Such as tubulin gene, glycolytic enzyme gene and ribosomal protein gene. Housekeeping genes are genes that maintain low levels of methylation and are always in active transcription. [1]

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