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SynthesisBMC genomics2011

Meta-analysis of muscle transcriptome data using the MADMuscle database reveals biologically relevant gene patterns.

Daniel Baron, Emeric Dubois, Audrey Bihouée, Raluca Teusan, Marja Steenman, Philippe Jourdon, Armelle Magot, Yann Péréon, Reiner Veitia, Frédérique Savagner and 2 more

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Synthesis in BMC genomics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel BaronINSERM, U915, Nantes, F-44000 France. daniel.baron@nantes.inserm.fr
Emeric Dubois
Audrey Bihouée
Raluca Teusan
Marja Steenman
Philippe Jourdon
Armelle Magot
Yann Péréon
Reiner Veitia
Frédérique Savagner
Gérard Ramstein
Rémi Houlgatte
Inserm · FRCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes · FRInstitut du Thorax · FRCentre de Recherche en Cancérologie et Immunologie Intégrée Nantes Angers · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRÉcole Polytechnique · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDNA microarray technology has had a great impact on muscle research and microarray gene expression data has been widely used to identify gene signatures characteristic of the studied conditions. With the rapid accumulation of muscle microarray data, it is of great interest to understand how to compare and combine data across multiple studies. Meta-analysis of transcriptome data is a valuable method to achieve it. It enables to highlight conserved gene signatures between multiple independent studies. However, using it is made difficult by the diversity of the available data: different microarray platforms, different gene nomenclature, different species studied, etc. DESCRIPTION: We have developed a system tool dedicated to muscle transcriptome data. This system comprises a collection of microarray data as well as a query tool. This latter allows the user to extract similar clusters of co-expressed genes from the database, using an input gene list. Common and relevant gene signatures can thus be searched more easily. The dedicated database consists in a large compendium of public data (more than 500 data sets) related to muscle (skeletal and heart). These studies included seven different animal species from invertebrates (Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans) and vertebrates (Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, Canis familiaris, Gallus gallus). After a renormalization step, clusters of co-expressed genes were identified in each dataset. The lists of co-expressed genes were annotated using a unified re-annotation procedure. These gene lists were compared to find significant overlaps between studies.

conclusionsApplied to this large compendium of data sets, meta-analyses demonstrated that conserved patterns between species could be identified. Focusing on a specific pathology (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) we validated results across independent studies and revealed robust biomarkers and new pathways of interest. The meta-analyses performed with MADMuscle show the usefulness of this approach. Our method can be applied to all public transcriptome data.

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Databases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingAnimalsCluster AnalysisComputational BiologyGenomicsHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationMusclesMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisSoftware

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PMID21324190
PMCPMC3049149
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