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Madden, Stephen FCarpenter, Susan B
Jeffery, Ian B
Björkbacka, Harry
Fitzgerald, Katherine A
O'Neill, Luke A
Higgins, Desmond G
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School of Medicine and Medical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.Issue Date
2010Keywords
GENETICSMeSH
AnimalsDatabases, Genetic
Gene Expression
Genomics
Humans
Mice
MicroRNAs
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
RNA, Messenger
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Detecting microRNA activity from gene expression data. 2010, 11:257 BMC BioinformaticsJournal
BMC bioinformaticsDOI
10.1186/1471-2105-11-257PubMed ID
20482775Abstract
BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by binding to the messenger RNA (mRNA) of protein coding genes. They control gene expression by either inhibiting translation or inducing mRNA degradation. A number of computational techniques have been developed to identify the targets of miRNAs. In this study we used predicted miRNA-gene interactions to analyse mRNA gene expression microarray data to predict miRNAs associated with particular diseases or conditions. RESULTS: Here we combine correspondence analysis, between group analysis and co-inertia analysis (CIA) to determine which miRNAs are associated with differences in gene expression levels in microarray data sets. Using a database of miRNA target predictions from TargetScan, TargetScanS, PicTar4way PicTar5way, and miRanda and combining these data with gene expression levels from sets of microarrays, this method produces a ranked list of miRNAs associated with a specified split in samples. We applied this to three different microarray datasets, a papillary thyroid carcinoma dataset, an in-house dataset of lipopolysaccharide treated mouse macrophages, and a multi-tissue dataset. In each case we were able to identified miRNAs of biological importance. CONCLUSIONS: We describe a technique to integrate gene expression data and miRNA target predictions from multiple sources.Item Type
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1471-2105ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/1471-2105-11-257
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