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6.7 Is<strong>of</strong>orm Differential Expression Results<br />

Figure 6.17: This figure summarises the process <strong>of</strong> finding genes with differentially<br />

expressed is<strong>of</strong>orms (common to both the parametric and logarithmic method) that<br />

are predicted to harbour the same microRNA targeting sites. One way to assess this<br />

is to find which genes are predicted to be regulated by the same microRNAs. In blue<br />

we find the numbers <strong>of</strong> microRNAs that are predicted to regulate the 2,682 genes<br />

(green set) and the 2,040 genes (orange set). In black we find the numbers that<br />

refer to genes. The 2,358 microRNAs common to both sets are predicted to regulate<br />

765 genes that are in common to the parametric and the logarithmic methods. The<br />

prediction database used comes from the union <strong>of</strong> five prediction algorithms: PicTar<br />

[247], PITA [224], Targetscan [272], miRanda [213] and DIANA-microT [315,316].<br />

In order to find in more detail which <strong>of</strong> the genes with differentially expressed<br />

is<strong>of</strong>orms that were also predicted to harbour the same microRNA targeting<br />

sites, actually had one or more microRNA seed sequences in their 3'UTRs, we<br />

used the Ensembl gene coordinates and the union <strong>of</strong> all microRNA seed coor-<br />

dinates given by the same five prediction algorithms used earlier (Targetscan,<br />

miRanda, PITA and DIANA-microT) to validate which genes harboured which<br />

microRNA seed sequences. We found that, <strong>of</strong> the 765 genes predicted to target<br />

the same microRNA targeting sites, 226 <strong>of</strong> the 2,682 genes with differentially<br />

expressed is<strong>of</strong>orms (identified with the parametric method) and 340 <strong>of</strong> the<br />

2,040 genes with differentially expressed is<strong>of</strong>orms (identified with the logarith-<br />

mic method) hosted a microRNA seed sequence between at least two tags (Fig<br />

6.18). These amounts clearly show that microRNA is a widely adopted mech-<br />

anism <strong>of</strong> is<strong>of</strong>orm expression modulation in GNS cell lines. Since microRNA<br />

array data was available for four GNS cell lines (G7, G26, G144, G166) and<br />

four NS cell lines (CB660, CB130, CB152, CB171), we used it to cross verify<br />

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