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  Composite transcriptome assembly of RNA-seq data in a sheep model for delayed bone healing

Jager, M., Ott, C. E., Grunhagen, J., Hecht, J., Schell, H., Mundlos, S., et al. (2011). Composite transcriptome assembly of RNA-seq data in a sheep model for delayed bone healing. BMC Genomics, 12, 158. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21435219 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074554/pdf/1471-2164-12-158.pdf?tool=pmcentrez.

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Jager, M., Author
Ott, C. E., Author
Grunhagen, J., Author
Hecht, J.1, Author           
Schell, H., Author
Mundlos, S.1, Author           
Duda, G. N., Author
Robinson, P. N.1, Author           
Lienau, J., Author
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1Research Group Development & Disease (Head: Stefan Mundlos), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1433557              

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Free keywords: Animals; Bone and Bones/metabolism; Cattle; Cluster Analysis; Computational Biology/methods; Disease Models, Animal; Female; Fracture Healing/*genetics; Gene Expression Profiling/*methods; Mice; Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods; Sheep, Domestic/*genetics
 Abstract: BACKGROUND: The sheep is an important model organism for many types of medically relevant research, but molecular genetic experiments in the sheep have been limited by the lack of knowledge about ovine gene sequences. RESULTS: Prior to our study, mRNA sequences for only 1,556 partial or complete ovine genes were publicly available. Therefore, we developed a composite de novo transcriptome assembly method for next-generation sequence data to combine known ovine mRNA and EST sequences, mRNA sequences from mouse and cow, and sequences assembled de novo from short read RNA-Seq data into a composite reference transcriptome, and identified transcripts from over 12 thousand previously undescribed ovine genes. Gene expression analysis based on these data revealed substantially different expression profiles in standard versus delayed bone healing in an ovine tibial osteotomy model. Hundreds of transcripts were differentially expressed between standard and delayed healing and between the time points of the standard and delayed healing groups. We used the sheep sequences to design quantitative RT-PCR assays with which we validated the differential expression of 26 genes that had been identified by RNA-seq analysis. A number of clusters of characteristic expression profiles could be identified, some of which showed striking differences between the standard and delayed healing groups. Gene Ontology (GO) analysis showed that the differentially expressed genes were enriched in terms including extracellular matrix, cartilage development, contractile fiber, and chemokine activity. CONCLUSIONS: Our results provide a first atlas of gene expression profiles and differentially expressed genes in standard and delayed bone healing in a large-animal model and provide a number of clues as to the shifts in gene expression that underlie delayed bone healing. In the course of our study, we identified transcripts of 13,987 ovine genes, including 12,431 genes for which no sequence information was previously available. This information will provide a basis for future molecular research involving the sheep as a model organism.

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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 12 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 158 Identifier: ISSN: 1471-2164 (Electronic) 1471-2164 (Linking)