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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2020

Statistical inference of differential RNA-editing sites from RNA-sequencing data by hierarchical modeling.

Stephen S Tran, Qing Zhou, Xinshu Xiao

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen S TranBioinformatics Interdepartmental Program.
Qing ZhouBioinformatics Interdepartmental Program.
Xinshu XiaoBioinformatics Interdepartmental Program.
Institute of Molecular Biology · BG

Funding

Analysis of functional genetic variants in RNA processing and expressionU01HG009417 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI XIAO, XINSHU GRACE · 2017 to 2021
$3.2M
Informatic tools for single-nucleotide analysis of cancer RNA-SeqU01CA204695 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI XIAO, XINSHU GRACE · 2016 to 2018
$959k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA204695NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG009417
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationRNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) enables global identification of RNA-editing sites in biological systems and disease. A salient step in many studies is to identify editing sites that statistically associate with treatment (e.g. case versus control) or covary with biological factors, such as age. However, RNA-seq has technical features that incumbent tests (e.g. t-test and linear regression) do not consider, which can lead to false positives and false negatives.

resultsIn this study, we demonstrate the limitations of currently used tests and introduce the method, RNA-editing tests (REDITs), a suite of tests that employ beta-binomial models to identify differential RNA editing. The tests in REDITs have higher sensitivity than other tests, while also maintaining the type I error (false positive) rate at the nominal level. Applied to the GTEx dataset, we unveil RNA-editing changes associated with age and gender, and differential recoding profiles between brain regions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: REDITs are implemented as functions in R and freely available for download at https://github.com/gxiaolab/REDITs. The repository also provides a code example for leveraging parallelization using multiple cores.

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RNARNA EditingBase SequenceSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareRNA

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PMID32003773
PMCPMC8453238
OpenAlexW3003797799

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