Sources of bias in measures of allele-specific expression derived from RNA-seq data aligned to a single reference genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stevenson, Kraig R ^a   Coolon, Joseph D ^a   Wittkopp, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic imbalance; DGRP; Drosophila melanogaster; Drosophila simulans; Gene expression; Genomics; Illumina; Mapping bias; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EXONS; GENOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 84881042224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-536     Document Type: Article

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