Talk:Essential gene

Human essential gene measurements
I'm editing the essential gene section of the main gene article and I noticed that here, the human essential genes estimate is listed as 118 from a 2003 reference. A couple of other papers quote much higher numbers (although the second is housekeeping, rather than essential). Either way, the table might need a more recent references for humans. T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 10:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree, I have added the Georgi reference, even though it uses a prediction based on mouse orthologs.Peteruetz (talk) 05:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Update: In the meantime, I have added a few additional recent papers from 2015 and 2016, so that the section on human essential genes should be quite up to date. Peteruetz (talk) 21:53, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Quality rating
I took the liberty to remove the "C" quality rating, which was assigned 3 days after I started the page in August 2013. The "C" rating is defined as "The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains much irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup."

Obviously, the article has been much expanded and improved since its creation and there is no indication what is "missing" or "irrelevant". I am happy to work on that. Let me know. Peteruetz ; (talk) 05:11, 4 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree, I've read it though and upgraded the assessment from C class to B class, retaining its Mid importance rating. T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 09:51, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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