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Differentially expressed alternatively spliced genes in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma identified using massively parallel transcriptome sequencing

Lingsheng Dong1, Roderick V Jensen2, Assunta De Rienzo1, Gavin J Gordon1, Yanlong Xu3, David J Sugarbaker1 and Raphael Bueno1*

Author Affiliations

1 The Thoracic Surgery Oncology Laboratory and the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

2 Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

3 Enterprise Research IS and Informatics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Partners Healthcare Inc, Boston, MA, USA

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BMC Medical Genetics 2009, 10:149 doi:10.1186/1471-2350-10-149

Published: 31 December 2009

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PCR Primers used to quantify expression levels of candidate exon junctions

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Methods to calculate exon junction expression index (EJEI) using RT-PCR

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Distribution of the 70,953 exon junctions mapped by at least one transcriptome read in at least one patient sample among 5 discovery samples

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76 highly expressed exon junction in MPM with EJEI difference > 0.1 and their mapped read numbers, EJEI, normalized EJEI and EJEI difference between MPM samples and normal lung

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32 highly expressed exon junction in normal lung with EJEI difference > 0.1 and their mapped read numbers, EJEI, normalized EJEI and EJEI difference between normal lung and MPM samples

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Mapping results for the 10 candidate differentially expressed exon junctions, their exon junction expression index (EJEI), EJEI difference between mesothelioma and normal samples and the RT-PCR results

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