RNA-seq: impact of RNA degradation on transcript quantification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of low quality RNA samples in whole-genome gene expression profiling remains controversial. It is unclear if transcript degradation in low quality RNA samples occurs uniformly, in which case the effects of degradation can be corrected via data normalization, or whether different transcripts are degraded at different rates, potentially biasing measurements of expression levels. This concern has rendered the use of low quality RNA samples in whole-genome expression profiling problematic. Yet, low quality samples (for example, samples collected in the course of fieldwork) are at times the sole means of addressing specific questions.

Results

We sought to quantify the impact of variation in RNA quality on estimates of gene expression levels based on RNA-seq dat

SUBMITTER: Gallego Romero I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4071332 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature