def skip_header(file_handle, skip_rows=8):
    """Skips the first "skip_row" lines of the file.

    To skip rows the next() method is called repeatedly.
    This skips the non-table part of the tab delimited gene files.

    Parameters
    ----------
    file_handle : file
        file object of tab delim file
    skip_rows : int, Default=8
        number of lines to skip
    """
    for i in range(skip_rows):
        file_handle.next()
    return file_handle