TY - GEN
T1 - Detecting differentially methylated mRNA from MeRIP-Seq with likelihood ratio test
AU - Zhang, Lin
AU - Meng, Jia
AU - Liu, Hui
AU - Cui, Xiaodong
AU - Zhang, Shao Wu
AU - Chen, Yidong
AU - Huang, Yufei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/2/5
Y1 - 2014/2/5
N2 - The study of mRNA methylation is an emerging research field greatly fueled by recent advancement in high throughput sequencing technology. We propose here a binomial likelihood ratio test ('bltest') aiming at detecting differentially methylated mRNA with MeRIP-Seq data, 'bltest' models the read counts of each RNA methylation site in IP and input samples with a binomial distribution. If the successful rates of binomial distributions under two experimental conditions are significantly different, the corresponding RNA is identified to be differentially methylated. The proposed 'bltest' does not require an independent procedure to unify different library sizes of the MeRIP-Seq samples, thus retaining maximal information from the data. Our simulation results clearly showed that 'bltest' consistently outperforms classic 'Fisher's exact test' at all settings. The proposed method was also applied to the real data, and the findings are consistent with previous studies.
AB - The study of mRNA methylation is an emerging research field greatly fueled by recent advancement in high throughput sequencing technology. We propose here a binomial likelihood ratio test ('bltest') aiming at detecting differentially methylated mRNA with MeRIP-Seq data, 'bltest' models the read counts of each RNA methylation site in IP and input samples with a binomial distribution. If the successful rates of binomial distributions under two experimental conditions are significantly different, the corresponding RNA is identified to be differentially methylated. The proposed 'bltest' does not require an independent procedure to unify different library sizes of the MeRIP-Seq samples, thus retaining maximal information from the data. Our simulation results clearly showed that 'bltest' consistently outperforms classic 'Fisher's exact test' at all settings. The proposed method was also applied to the real data, and the findings are consistent with previous studies.
KW - Binomial distribution
KW - Differential RNA methylation
KW - Likelihood ratio test
KW - MA
KW - MA-Seq
KW - MeRIP-Seq
KW - N6-Methyladenosine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949928013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2014.7032349
DO - 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2014.7032349
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84949928013
T3 - 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP 2014
SP - 1368
EP - 1371
BT - 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP 2014
Y2 - 3 December 2014 through 5 December 2014
ER -