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A robust estimation of exon expression to identify alternative spliced genes applied to human tissues and cancer samples

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Title:A robust estimation of exon expression to identify alternative spliced genes applied to human tissues and cancer samples
Creators Name:Risueño, A., Roson-Burgo, B., Dolnik, A., Hernandez-Rivas, J.M., Bullinger, L. and De Las Rivas, J.
Abstract:BACKGROUND: Accurate analysis of whole-gene expression and individual-exon expression is essential to characterize different transcript isoforms and identify alternative splicing events in human genes. One of the omic technologies widely used in many studies on human samples are the exon-specific expression microarray platforms. RESULTS: Since there are not many validated comparative analyses to identify specific splicing events using data derived from these types of platforms, we have developed an algorithm (called ESLiM) to detect significant changes in exon use, and applied it to a reference dataset of 270 human genes that show alternative expression in different tissues. We compared the results with three other methodological approaches and provided the R source code to be applied elsewhere. The genes positively detected by these analyses also provide a verified subset of human genes that present tissue-regulated isoforms. Furthermore, we performed a validation analysis on human patient samples comparing two different subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and we experimentally validated the splicing in several selected genes that showed exons with highly significant signal change. CONCLUSIONS: The comparative analyses with other methods using a fair set of human genes that show alternative splicing and the validation on clinical samples demonstrate that the proposed novel algorithm is a reliable tool for detecting differential splicing in exon-level expression data.
Keywords:Alternative Splicing, Splicing Index, Human Genomics, Exons, Transcripts, Gene Expression, Differential Expression, Bioinformatics, R Algorithm, Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Source:BMC Genomics
ISSN:1471-2164
Publisher:BioMed Central
Volume:15
Page Range:879
Date:8 October 2014
Additional Information:Copyright © 2014 Risueño et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-879
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