Publication Date:
2008-07-05
Description:
The functional complexity of the human transcriptome is not yet fully elucidated. We report a high-throughput sequence of the human transcriptome from a human embryonic kidney and a B cell line. We used shotgun sequencing of transcripts to generate randomly distributed reads. Of these, 50% mapped to unique genomic locations, of which 80% corresponded to known exons. We found that 66% of the polyadenylated transcriptome mapped to known genes and 34% to nonannotated genomic regions. On the basis of known transcripts, RNA-Seq can detect 25% more genes than can microarrays. A global survey of messenger RNA splicing events identified 94,241 splice junctions (4096 of which were previously unidentified) and showed that exon skipping is the most prevalent form of alternative splicing.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sultan, Marc -- Schulz, Marcel H -- Richard, Hugues -- Magen, Alon -- Klingenhoff, Andreas -- Scherf, Matthias -- Seifert, Martin -- Borodina, Tatjana -- Soldatov, Aleksey -- Parkhomchuk, Dmitri -- Schmidt, Dominic -- O'Keeffe, Sean -- Haas, Stefan -- Vingron, Martin -- Lehrach, Hans -- Yaspo, Marie-Laure -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Aug 15;321(5891):956-60. doi: 10.1126/science.1160342. Epub 2008 Jul 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestrasse 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18599741" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Alternative Splicing
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Cell Line
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Computational Biology
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DNA, Complementary
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DNA, Intergenic
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Exons
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*Gene Expression Profiling
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*Genome, Human
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Humans
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Introns
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Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
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RNA Polymerase II/metabolism
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*RNA Splice Sites
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RNA, Messenger/*genetics
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*Sequence Analysis, RNA
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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