RNA editing generates cellular subsets with diverse sequence within populations.

ABSTRACT: RNA editing is a mutational mechanism that specifically alters the nucleotide content in transcribed RNA. However, editing rates vary widely, and could result from equivalent editing amongst individual cells, or represent an average of variable editing within a population. Here we present a hierarchical Bayesian model that quantifies the variance of editing rates at specific sites using RNA-seq data from both single cells, and a cognate bulk sample to distinguish between these two possibilities. The model predicts high variance for specific edited sites in murine macrophages and dendritic cells, findings that we validated experimentally by using targeted amplification of specific editable transcripts from single cells. The model also predicts changes in variance in editing rates for specif

SUBMITTER: Harjanto D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4947178 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature