BrainpH: Brain pH Measurements
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington

Brain tissue pH at time of death

A data frame with 54 observations on the following 5 variables.

pH: Brain tissue pH
Sex: F or M
Ethnicity: AfricanAmerican, Asian, Caucasian, or PacificIslander
Age: Age at death
DeathType: Cause of death (Cardiac, Other, or Suicide)

These are data from a PNAS article (supplemental file) on pH in brain tissue samples for controls and for people who had Major Depressive Disorder. We extracted just the controls (roughly 3/4 of whom died of cardiac arrest).

Jun Z. Li et al. (2013), "Circadian patterns of gene expression in the human brain and disruption in major depressive disorder," PNAS, vol 110, no. 24, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1305814110

Data extracted from Supporting Information, Table S4: Li et al. www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/1305814110

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