Cosplicing network analysis of mammalian brain RNA-Seq data utilizing WGCNA and Mantel correlations

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Iancu, Ovidiu D ^a   Colville, Alexandre ^a   Oberbeck, Denesa ^a   Darakjian, Priscila ^a   McWeeney, Shannon K ^b   Hitzemann, Robert ^a,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Brain transcriptome; Gene coexpression; Gene cosplicing; Scale free gene networks

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACACA; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; WEIGHTED GENE COEXPRESSION NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84940100469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00174     Document Type: Article

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