Exon Level Expression Profiling: a Novel Unbiased Transcriptome Analysis for Body Fluids
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ABSTRACT: Transcriptome analysis of partially degraded and fragmented RNA samples from body fluids Global gene expression profiling has shown great promise in high-throughput biomarker discovery for early disease detection in body fluids such as saliva, which is accessible, cost-effective, and non-invasive. However, this goal has not been fully realized because saliva, like many clinical samples, contains partially fragmented and degraded RNAs that are difficult to amplify and detect with prevailing technologies. Here, using nanogram scale salivary RNA as a proof-of-principle example, we describe our progress with a novel poly-A tail independent mRNA amplification strategy combined with the Affymetrix GeneChip Exon arrays. We defined a Salivary Exon Core Transcriptome (SECT) with highly similar expression profiles in healthy individuals verified by quantitative PCR. Informatics analysis of SECT provided important mechanistic insight to their potential origin and function. Finally we demonstrated the diagnostic potential of true exon level expression profiling approach with salivary exon biomarkers that accurately discriminated gender in healthy individuals.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE7760 | GEO | 2008/05/20
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA99889
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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