Exploring miRNA–target gene pair detection in disease with coRmiT

A wide range of approaches can be used to detect micro RNA (miRNA)–target gene pairs (mTPs) from expression data, differing in the ways the gene and miRNA expression profiles are calculated, combined and correlated. However, there is no clear consensus on which is the best approach across all datase...

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Autores: Córdoba-Caballero, José, García-Criado, Federico, Gallego Martínez, Diana, Navarro-Sánchez, Alicia, Moreno Estellés, Mireia, Garcés, Concepción, Bonet, Fernando, Romá-Mateo, Carlos, Toro, Rocio, Sanz, Pascual, Rojano, Elena, Seoane, Pedro, Ranea, Juan A.G., Perkins, James R., Kohl, Matthias, Pérez González, María Belén
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/714498
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/714498
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae060
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:correlation
odds ratio
genetic disease
miRNA
RNA-Seq
target
Biología y Biomedicina / Biología
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Sumario:A wide range of approaches can be used to detect micro RNA (miRNA)–target gene pairs (mTPs) from expression data, differing in the ways the gene and miRNA expression profiles are calculated, combined and correlated. However, there is no clear consensus on which is the best approach across all datasets. Here, we have implemented multiple strategies and applied them to three distinct rare disease datasets that comprise smallRNA-Seq and RNA-Seq data obtained from the same samples, obtaining mTPs related to the disease pathology. All datasets were preprocessed using a standardized, freely available computational workflow, DEG_workflow. This workflow includes coRmiT, a method to compare multiple strategies for mTP detection. We used it to investigate the overlap of the detected mTPs with predicted and validated mTPs from 11 different databases. Results show that there is no clear best strategy for mTP detection applicable to all situations. We therefore propose the integration of the results of the different strategies by selecting the one with the highest odds ratio for each miRNA, as the optimal way to integrate the results. We applied this selection-integration method to the datasets and showed it to be robust to changes in the predicted and validated mTP databases. Our findings have important implications for miRNA analysis. coRmiT is implemented as part of the ExpHunterSuite Bioconductor package available from https://bioconductor.org/packages/ExpHunterSuite