Recommendations for accurate resolution of Gene and isoform allele-specific expression in RNA-seq data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Wood, David L A ^a   Nones, Katia ^a   Steptoe, Anita ^a   Christ, Angelika ^a   Harliwong, Ivon ^a   Newell, Felicity ^a   Bruxner, Timothy J C ^a   Miller, David ^a   Cloonan, Nicole ^b   Grimmond, Sean M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; RNA ISOFORM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ALLELE; ALLELE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIPLOIDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DSP GENE; EVALUATION STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBD GENE; WDR72 GENE; WEB BROWSER; ALLELIC IMBALANCE; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; BRAIN; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LIVER; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84930639046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126911     Document Type: Article

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