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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2011

Widespread RNA and DNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome.

Mingyao Li, Isabel X Wang, Yun Li, Alan Bruzel, Allison L Richards, Jonathan M Toung, Vivian G Cheung

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 246 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Mingyao LiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Isabel X Wang
Yun Li
Alan Bruzel
Allison L Richards
Jonathan M Toung
Vivian G Cheung

Funding

Statistical Methods for Gene Mapping Studies in Admixed PopulationsR01HG005854 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LI, MINGYAO · 2010 to 2012
$978k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG005854
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transmission of information from DNA to RNA is a critical process. We compared RNA sequences from human B cells of 27 individuals to the corresponding DNA sequences from the same individuals and uncovered more than 10,000 exonic sites where the RNA sequences do not match that of the DNA. All 12 possible categories of discordances were observed. These differences were nonrandom as many sites were found in multiple individuals and in different cell types, including primary skin cells and brain tissues. Using mass spectrometry, we detected peptides that are translated from the discordant RNA sequences and thus do not correspond exactly to the DNA sequences. These widespread RNA-DNA differences in the human transcriptome provide a yet unexplored aspect of genome variation.

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Genetic VariationGenome, HumanAdultAgedAmino Acid SequenceBase SequenceB-LymphocytesCell LineCerebral CortexDNAExonsExpressed Sequence TagsFibroblastsGene Expression ProfilingGenotypeHumansDNAProteinsProteomeRNA, MessengerUntranslated Regions

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PMID21596952
PMCPMC3204392

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