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Conference Paper: Refining orthologue groups at the transcript level

TitleRefining orthologue groups at the transcript level
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Issue Date2010
PublisherBioMed Central Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics/
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The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2010), Tokyo, Japan, 26-28 September 2010. In BMC Genomics, 2010, v. 11 suppl. 4, no. S11 How to Cite?
AbstractBackground: Orthologues are genes in different species that are related through divergent evolution from a common ancestor and are expected to have similar functions. Many databases have been created to describe orthologous genes based on existing sequence data. However, alternative splicing (in eukaryotes) is usually disregarded in the determination of orthologue groups and the functional consequences of alternative splicing have not been considered. Most multi-exon genes can encode multiple protein isoforms which often have different functions and can be disease-related. Extending the definition of orthologue groups to take account of alternate splicing and the functional differences it causes requires further examination.Results: A subset of the orthologous gene groups between human and mouse was selected from the InParanoid database for this study. Each orthologue group was divided into sub-clusters, at the transcript level, using a method based on the sequence similarity of the isoforms. Transcript based sub-clusters were verified by functional signatures of the cluster members in the InterPro database. Functional similarity was higher within than between transcript-based sub-clusters of a defined orthologous group. In certain cases, cancer-related isoforms of a gene could be distinguished from other isoforms of the gene. Predictions of intrinsic disorder in protein regions were also correlated with the isoform sub-clusters within an orthologue group.Conclusions: Sub-clustering of orthologue groups at the transcript level is an important step to more accurately define functionally equivalent orthologue groups. This work appears to be the first effort to refine orthologous groupings of genes based on the consequences of alternative splicing on function. Further investigation and refinement of the methodology to classify and verify isoform sub-clusters is needed, particularly to extend the technique to more distantly related species. © 2010 Jia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
DescriptionConference Theme: Computational Biology
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/140793
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dc.contributor.authorJia, Yen_HK
dc.contributor.authorWong, TKFen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSong, YQen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYiu, SMen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSmith, DKen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-23T06:19:26Z-
dc.date.available2011-09-23T06:19:26Z-
dc.date.issued2010en_HK
dc.identifier.citationThe Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2010), Tokyo, Japan, 26-28 September 2010. In BMC Genomics, 2010, v. 11 suppl. 4, no. S11en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1471-2164en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/140793-
dc.descriptionConference Theme: Computational Biology-
dc.description.abstractBackground: Orthologues are genes in different species that are related through divergent evolution from a common ancestor and are expected to have similar functions. Many databases have been created to describe orthologous genes based on existing sequence data. However, alternative splicing (in eukaryotes) is usually disregarded in the determination of orthologue groups and the functional consequences of alternative splicing have not been considered. Most multi-exon genes can encode multiple protein isoforms which often have different functions and can be disease-related. Extending the definition of orthologue groups to take account of alternate splicing and the functional differences it causes requires further examination.Results: A subset of the orthologous gene groups between human and mouse was selected from the InParanoid database for this study. Each orthologue group was divided into sub-clusters, at the transcript level, using a method based on the sequence similarity of the isoforms. Transcript based sub-clusters were verified by functional signatures of the cluster members in the InterPro database. Functional similarity was higher within than between transcript-based sub-clusters of a defined orthologous group. In certain cases, cancer-related isoforms of a gene could be distinguished from other isoforms of the gene. Predictions of intrinsic disorder in protein regions were also correlated with the isoform sub-clusters within an orthologue group.Conclusions: Sub-clustering of orthologue groups at the transcript level is an important step to more accurately define functionally equivalent orthologue groups. This work appears to be the first effort to refine orthologous groupings of genes based on the consequences of alternative splicing on function. Further investigation and refinement of the methodology to classify and verify isoform sub-clusters is needed, particularly to extend the technique to more distantly related species. © 2010 Jia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics/en_HK
dc.relation.ispartofBMC Genomicsen_HK
dc.rightsBMC Genomics. Copyright © BioMed Central Ltd.-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleRefining orthologue groups at the transcript levelen_HK
dc.typeConference_Paperen_HK
dc.identifier.emailSong, YQ:songy@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.emailYiu, SM:smyiu@cs.hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2164-11-S4-S11en_HK
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dc.identifier.volume11en_HK
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