Fast effect size shrinkage software for beta-binomial models of allelic imbalance.

ABSTRACT: Allelic imbalance occurs when the two alleles of a gene are differentially expressed within a diploid organism and can indicate important differences in cis-regulation and epigenetic state across the two chromosomes. Because of this, the ability to accurately quantify the proportion at which each allele of a gene is expressed is of great interest to researchers. This becomes challenging in the presence of small read counts and/or sample sizes, which can cause estimators for allelic expression proportions to have high variance. Investigators have traditionally dealt with this problem by filtering out genes with small counts and samples. However, this may inadvertently remove important genes that have truly large allelic imbalances. Another option is to use pseudocounts or Bayesian estimator

SUBMITTER: Zitovsky JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7974632 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature