Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Allele-specific binding of RNA-binding proteins reveals functional genetic variants in the RNA

  • Ei-Wen Yang,
  • Jae Hoon Bahn,
  • Esther Yun-Hua Hsiao,
  • Boon Xin Tan,
  • Yiwei Sun,
  • Ting Fu,
  • Bo Zhou,
  • Eric L. Van Nostrand,
  • Gabriel A. Pratt,
  • Peter Freese,
  • Xintao Wei,
  • Giovanni Quinones-Valdez,
  • Alexander E. Urban,
  • Brenton R. Graveley,
  • Christopher B. Burge,
  • Gene W. Yeo,
  • Xinshu Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09292-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Differential binding of RNA-binding proteins mediated by genetic variants (GVs) can influence posttranscriptional regulation. Here, the authors develop BEAPR, a computational approach to identify allele-specific binding events in eCLIP-Seq data.