Illumina RNA sequencing for HLA expression qauntification

In this study, we quantified mRNA expression levels of HLA class I and II genes from peripheral blood samples of 50 healthy individuals. The gene- and allele-specific mRNA expression was assessed using unique molecular identifiers, which enabled PCR bias removal and calculation of the number of original mRNA transcripts. We identified differences in mRNA expression between different HLA genes and alleles. Our results suggest that HLA alleles are differentially expressed and these differences in expression levels are quantifiable using RNA sequencing technology.

Type: Other
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 1 Publication

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001006838	The dataset contains 200 fastq files of Illumina 5'end RNA sequencing data of 50 PBMC samples. The paired-end data includes 100 fastq files (R1 and R2) of 50 full-length cDNA sequencing libraries and 100 fastq files (R1 and R2) of 50 HLA amplicon sequencing libraries.	NextSeq 550	100

Publications	Citations
HLA RNA Sequencing With Unique Molecular Identifiers Reveals High Allele-Specific Variability in mRNA Expression. Johansson T, Yohannes DA, Koskela S, Partanen J, Saavalainen P. Front Immunol 12: 2021 629059	15