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ArticleNature biotechnology2013

Differential analysis of gene regulation at transcript resolution with RNA-seq.

Cole Trapnell, David G Hendrickson, Martin Sauvageau, Loyal Goff, John L Rinn, Lior Pachter

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2,200 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Cole TrapnellDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
David G Hendrickson
Martin Sauvageau
Loyal Goff
John L Rinn
Lior Pachter

Funding

Regulatory Roles and Dynamics of Nuclear long-noncoding RNAs in PluripotencyP01GM099117 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI RINN, JOHN LOUIS · 2011 to 2021
$21.2M
Center for Cell CircuitsP50HG006193 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI REGEV, AVIV · 2011 to 2015
$15.6M
RNA and Chromatin Formation: From Discovery to MechanismDP2OD006670 · OD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI RINN, JOHN LOUIS · 2009 to 2009
$2.5M
Erythroid stage-specific transcriptome expression, dynamics, and regulationR01DK094699 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI CONBOY, JOHN G, PACHTER, LIOR S · 2011 to 2015
$2.3M
Epigenetic Regulation by Large Non-Coding RNAs in the p53 Mediated DNA Damage ResR01ES020260 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI RINN, JOHN LOUIS · 2011 to 2015
$2.1M
Methods for the analysis of RNA-Seq and related sequence census based experimentsR01HG006129 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI PACHTER, LIOR S · 2011 to 2013
$1.1M
NHGRI NIH HHS P50 HG006193NHGRI NIH HHS P50HG006193NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006129NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK094699NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES020260NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES020260NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM099117NIGMS NIH HHS P01GM099117NIH HHS DP2 OD006670NIH HHS DP2OD006670
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Differential analysis of gene and transcript expression using high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is complicated by several sources of measurement variability and poses numerous statistical challenges. We present Cuffdiff 2, an algorithm that estimates expression at transcript-level resolution and controls for variability evident across replicate libraries. Cuffdiff 2 robustly identifies differentially expressed transcripts and genes and reveals differential splicing and promoter-preference changes. We demonstrate the accuracy of our approach through differential analysis of lung fibroblasts in response to loss of the developmental transcription factor HOXA1, which we show is required for lung fibroblast and HeLa cell cycle progression. Loss of HOXA1 results in significant expression level changes in thousands of individual transcripts, along with isoform switching events in key regulators of the cell cycle. Cuffdiff 2 performs robust differential analysis in RNA-seq experiments at transcript resolution, revealing a layer of regulation not readily observable with other high-throughput technologies.

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Gene Expression RegulationFibroblastsHeLa CellsHomeobox A1 ProteinHomeodomain ProteinsHumansLungRNA, MessengerSequence Analysis, RNATranscription FactorsHomeobox A1 ProteinHomeodomain ProteinsRNA, MessengerTranscription Factors

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PMID23222703
PMCPMC3869392

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