tissue specific gene list

Question

[storm1907]

Hello, I would like to download all expressed gene list for only one tissue type (testis) from GTEX. I am bit confused, what table should I pick (found plenty of datasets in https://gtexportal.org/home/datasets), and what are these gct files.

Thank you for a help!

Answer 1

[Fabio Marroni]

In the web page of GTEx there's a file described as follows:

Median gene-level TPM by tissue. Median expression was calculated from the file GTEx_Analysis_2017-06-05_v8_RNASeQCv1.1.9_gene_tpm.gct.gz.

I guess it is good for you. You just have to select the right column. The file is this one.

Regarding gtc files, they are defined as follows in GTEx website:

OMNI SNP Array Intensity files (.idat and .gtc)