Comprehensive assembly of novel transcripts from unmapped human RNA-Seq data and their association with cancer.

ABSTRACT: Crucial parts of the genome including genes encoding microRNAs and noncoding RNAs went unnoticed for years, and even now, despite extensive annotation and assembly of the human genome, RNA-sequencing continues to yield millions of unmappable and thus uncharacterized reads. Here, we examined > 300 billion reads from 536 normal donors and 1,873 patients encompassing 21 cancer types, identified ~300 million such uncharacterized reads, and using a distinctive approach de novo assembled 2,550 novel human transcripts, which mainly represent long noncoding RNAs. Of these, 230 exhibited relatively specific expression or non-expression in certain cancer types, making them potential markers for those cancers, whereas 183 exhibited tissue specificity. Moreover, we used lentiviral-mediated expression

SUBMITTER: Kazemian M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4562499 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature