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ArticleNature genetics2008

Expression of 24,426 human alternative splicing events and predicted cis regulation in 48 tissues and cell lines.

John C Castle, Chaolin Zhang, Jyoti K Shah, Amit V Kulkarni, Auinash Kalsotra, Thomas A Cooper, Jason M Johnson

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Article in Nature genetics, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 204 papers.

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204citing papers in PubMed
14.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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204 citing papers in PubMed, 322 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

John C CastleRosetta Inpharmatics LLC, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Chaolin Zhang
Jyoti K Shah
Amit V Kulkarni
Auinash Kalsotra
Thomas A Cooper
Jason M Johnson
Rosetta Stone (United States) · USBaylor College of Medicine · USCold Spring Harbor Laboratory · US

Funding

MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF MYOTONIC DYSTROPHYR01AR045653 · NIAMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COOPER, THOMAS A · 1999 to 2018
$8.3M
REPROGRAMMING BY mRNA CLEARANCE: THE MAT-TO-ZYG TRANSITIONR01GM084198 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LIN, RUEYLING, ZHANG, MICHAEL Q · 2009 to 2018
$2.8M
Computational and experimental modeling of RNA SplicingR01GM074688 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI ZHANG, MICHAEL Q · 2007 to 2012
$1.6M
Mechanisms of Developmentally Regulated SplicingR01GM076493 · NIGMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COOPER, THOMAS A · 2006 to 2009
$1.1M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR045653NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM074688NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076493NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076493NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084198
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative pre-messenger RNA splicing influences development, physiology and disease, but its regulation in humans is not well understood, partially because of the limited scale at which the expression of specific splicing events has been measured. We generated the first genome-scale expression compendium of human alternative splicing events using custom whole-transcript microarrays monitoring expression of 24,426 alternative splicing events in 48 diverse human samples. Over 11,700 genes and 9,500 splicing events were differentially expressed, providing a rich resource for studying splicing regulation. An unbiased, systematic screen of 21,760 4-mer to 7-mer words for cis-regulatory motifs identified 143 RNA 'words' enriched near regulated cassette exons, including six clusters of motifs represented by UCUCU, UGCAUG, UGCU, UGUGU, UUUU and AGGG, which map to trans-acting regulators PTB, Fox, Muscleblind, CELF/CUG-BP, TIA-1 and hnRNP F/H, respectively. Each cluster showed a distinct pattern of genomic location and tissue specificity. For example, UCUCU occurs 110 to 35 nucleotides preceding cassette exons upregulated in brain and striated muscle but depleted in other tissues. UCUCU and UGCAUG seem to have similar function but independent action, occurring 5' and 3', respectively, of 33% of the cassette exons upregulated in skeletal muscle but co-occurring for only 2%.

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Gene Expression RegulationAlternative SplicingCell LineExonsHumansOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOrgan SpecificityRNA Splicing

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PMID18978788
PMCPMC3197713
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