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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

Foreign RNA spike-ins enable accurate allele-specific expression analysis at scale.

Asia Mendelevich, Saumya Gupta, Aleksei Pakharev, Athanasios Teodosiadis, Andrey A Mironov, Alexander A Gimelbrant

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Asia MendelevichAltius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 2211 Elliott Ave, Seattle, WA 98121, United States.
Saumya GuptaStem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Aleksei Pakharev
Athanasios TeodosiadisAltius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 2211 Elliott Ave, Seattle, WA 98121, United States.
Andrey A MironovFaculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-73 Vorobiovy Gory, Lab. Bldg B, Moscow 119992, Russia.
Alexander A GimelbrantAltius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 2211 Elliott Ave, Seattle, WA 98121, United States.

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Mechanism and function of autosomal analog of X inactivationR01GM114864 · NIGMS · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI GIMELBRANT, ALEXANDER · 2014 to 2018
$4.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114864
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motivationAnalysis of allele-specific expression is strongly affected by the technical noise present in RNA-seq experiments. Previously, we showed that technical replicates can be used for precise estimates of this noise, and we provided a tool for correction of technical noise in allele-specific expression analysis. This approach is very accurate but costly due to the need for two or more replicates of each library. Here, we develop a spike-in approach which is highly accurate at only a small fraction of the cost.

resultsWe show that a distinct RNA added as a spike-in before library preparation reflects technical noise of the whole library and can be used in large batches of samples. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach using combinations of RNA from species distinguishable by alignment, namely, mouse, human, and Caenorhabditis elegans. Our new approach, controlFreq, enables highly accurate and computationally efficient analysis of allele-specific expression in (and between) arbitrarily large studies at an overall cost increase of ∼5%. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Analysis pipeline for this approach is available at GitHub as R package controlFreq (github.com/gimelbrantlab/controlFreq).

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