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Primary and secondary transcriptional effects in the developing human Down syndrome brain and heart

Rong Mao1,2, Xiaowen Wang3, Edward L Spitznagel4, Laurence P Frelin5, Jason C Ting5, Huashi Ding3, Jung-whan Kim6, Ingo Ruczinski7, Thomas J Downey3 and Jonathan Pevsner1,2,5,6*

Author Affiliations

1 Program in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1830 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

2 Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

3 Partek Incorporated, St Charles, MO 63304, USA

4 Department of Mathematics, Campus Box 1146, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA

5 Department of Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 707 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

6 Pathobiology Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

7 Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

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Genome Biology 2005, 6:R107 doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-13-r107

Published: 16 December 2005

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Additional data file 1:

Lists information on 25 samples such as race, gender, and postmortem interval.

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This table describes FDR results shown for each individual chromosome.

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Additional data file 3:

Detailed methods for the following topics: Expression data analysis: class prediction; Error estimation using nested cross-validation; Selection of predictor genes for classification; Expression data analysis: functional group testing; and Quantitative real-time PCR. The functional group testing section includes the description of a novel algorithm for functional group analyses.

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Figure legends for the Additional data file 5 and 7 figures.

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This figure shows the results of permutation tests, providing evidence that the functional groups we identified are likely to have been identified with a probability far greater than is expected by chance (as determined by a series of random permutations of the data).

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This table provides results of a Wilcoxon rank test which is appropriate for functional groups having a small size.

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This figure shows a typical quantitative real-time PCR result, in which the level of a transcript is significantly up-regulated in a trisomic sample.

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Additional data file 8:

This table includes oligonucleotide sequences.

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