Prediction of alternatively skipped exons and splicing enhancers from exon junction arrays

Kechris, Katerina; Yang, Yee; Yeh, Ru-Fang

doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-551

Prediction of alternatively skipped exons and splicing enhancers from exon junction arrays

Journal Article · Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2008 · BMC Genomics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-551· OSTI ID:1626472

Kechris, Katerina ^[1]; Yang, Yee ^[2]; Yeh, Ru-Fang ^[3]

Univ. of Colorado, Denver, CO (United States). Colorado School of Public Health. Dept. of Biostatistics and Informatics; DOE/OSTI
Univ. of Sydney, NSW (Australia). Sydney Bioinformatics. School of Mathematics and Statistics
Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States). Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Background: Alternative splicing of exons in a pre-mRNA transcript is an important mechanism which contributes to protein diversity in human. Arrays for detecting alternative splicing are available using several different probe designs, including those based on exon-junctions. In this work, we introduce a new method for predicting alternatively skipped exons from exon-junction arrays. Predictions based on our method are compared against controls and their sequences are analyzed to identify motifs important for regulating alternative splicing. Results: Our comparison of several alternative methods shows that an exon-skipping score based on neighboring junctions best discriminates between positive and negative controls. Sequence analysis of our predicted exons confirms the presence of known splicing regulatory sequences. In addition, we also derive a set of development-related alternatively spliced genes based on fetal versus adult tissue comparisons and find that our predictions are consistent with their functional annotations. Ab initio motif finding algorithms are applied to identify several motifs that may be relevant for splicing during development. Conclusion: This work describes a new method for analyzing exon-junction arrays, identifies sequence motifs that are specific for alternative and constitutive splicing and suggests a role for several known splicing factors and their motifs in developmental regulation.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Sloan Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division

OSTI ID:: 1626472

Journal Information:: BMC Genomics, Journal Name: BMC Genomics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 1471-2164

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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