Reanalysis of RNA-Sequencing Data Reveals Several Additional Fusion Genes with Multiple Isoforms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kangaspeska, Sara ^a   Hultsch, Susanne ^a   Edgren, Henrik ^a   Nicorici, Daniel ^a,b   Murumägi, Astrid ^a   Kallioniemi, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACSF2 GENE; AHCTF1 GENE; ARTICLE; BCAS3 GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; BREAST CANCER; CARM1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSION GENE; GCN1L1 GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MED1 GENE; MED13 GENE; MRPL45 GENE; MSI1 GENE; NAAA GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIP4K2B GENE; RAD51C GENE; RAE1 GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMARCA4 GENE; STX16 GENE; STXBP4 GENE; SYNRG GENE; THRA GENE; TMEM49 GENE; TOB1 GENE; TRPC4AP GENE; USP32 GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84868295073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048745     Document Type: Article

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