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An integrative analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression--a case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

MicroRNAs are believed to play an important role in gene expression regulation. They have been shown to be involved in cell cycle regulation and cancer. MicroRNA expression profiling became available owing to recent technology advancement. In some studies, both microRNA expression and mRNA expression are measured, which allows an integrated analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression.

Results

We demonstrated three aspects of an integrated analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression, through a case study of human cancer data. We showed that (1) microRNA expression efficiently sorts tumors from normal tissues regardless of tumor type, while gene expression does not; (2) many microRNAs are down-regulated in tumors and these microRNAs can be clustered in two ways: microRNAs similarly affected by cancer and microRNAs similarly interacting with genes; (3) taking let-7f as an example, targets genes can be identified and they can be clustered based on their relationship with let-7f expression.

Discussion

Our findings in this paper were made using novel applications of existing statistical methods: hierarchical clustering was applied with a new distance measure-the co-clustering frequency-to identify sample clusters that are stable; microRNA-gene correlation profiles were subject to hierarchical clustering to identify microRNAs that similarly interact with genes and hence are likely functionally related; the clustering of regression models method was applied to identify microRNAs similarly related to cancer while adjusting for tissue type and genes similarly related to microRNA while adjusting for disease status. These analytic methods are applicable to interrogate multiple types of -omics data in general.

SUBMITTER: Qin LX

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2623315 | biostudies-literature | 2008

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An integrative analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression--a case study.

Qin Li-Xuan LX

Cancer informatics 20080617

<h4>Background</h4>MicroRNAs are believed to play an important role in gene expression regulation. They have been shown to be involved in cell cycle regulation and cancer. MicroRNA expression profiling became available owing to recent technology advancement. In some studies, both microRNA expression and mRNA expression are measured, which allows an integrated analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression.<h4>Results</h4>We demonstrated three aspects of an integrated analysis of microRNA and mRNA expr ...[more]

PMID: 19259417

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An integrative analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression--a case study.

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An integrative analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression--a case study.

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