Identification of genetic variants associated with alternative splicing using sQTLseekeR
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- dc.contributor.author Monlong, Jeanca
- dc.contributor.author Calvo, Miquel (Calvo Llorca)ca
- dc.contributor.author Ferreira, Pedro G.ca
- dc.contributor.author Guigó Serra, Rodericca
- dc.date.accessioned 2015-06-16T08:18:37Z
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- dc.date.issued 2014ca
- dc.description.abstract Identification of genetic variants affecting splicing in RNA sequencing population studies is still in its infancy. Splicing phenotype is more complex than gene expression and ought to be treated as a multivariate phenotype to be recapitulated completely. Here we represent the splicing pattern of a gene as the distribution of the relative abundances of a gene’s alternative transcript isoforms. We develop a statistical framework that uses a distance-based approach to compute the variability of splicing ratios across observations, and a non-parametric analogue to multivariate analysis of variance. We implement this approach in the R package sQTLseekeR and use it to analyze RNA-Seq data from the Geuvadis project in 465 individuals. We identify hundreds of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as splicing QTLs (sQTLs), including some falling in genome-wide association study SNPs. By developing the appropriate metrics, we show that sQTLseekeR compares favorably with existing methods that rely on univariate approaches, predicting variants that behave as expected from mutations affecting splicing.en
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by grant 1R01MH090941-01 and R01MH101814 from the US National Institutes of Health, and grants BIO2011-26205 and CSD2007-00050 from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) and grant ERC_294653 from the European Research Council.en
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- dc.identifier.citation Monlong J, Calvo M, Ferreira PG, Guigó R. Identification of genetic variants associated with alternative splicing using sQTLseekeR. Nature Communications. 2014;5:4698. DOI 10.1038/ncomms5698ca
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5698
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- dc.publisher Nature Publishing Groupca
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- dc.subject.keyword Biological sciencesen
- dc.subject.keyword Bioinformaticsen
- dc.subject.keyword Geneticsen
- dc.subject.other RNAca
- dc.subject.other Biologia molecularca
- dc.subject.other Genomesca
- dc.title Identification of genetic variants associated with alternative splicing using sQTLseekeRen
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