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Bias in high-throughput analysis of miRNAs and implications for biomarker studies Christina Backes, Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani, Karen Frese, Martin Hart, Nicole Ludwig, Benjamin Meder, Eckart Meese, and Andreas Keller Anal. Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03376 • Publication Date (Web): 13 Jan 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 18, 2016
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Bias in high-throughput analysis of miRNAs and implications for biomarker studies 1
Christina Backes , Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani
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, Karen Frese
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, Martin Hart , Nicole Ludwig ,
Benjamin Meder2,3,4, Eckart Meese5 and Andreas Keller1
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Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany 3 German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Heidelberg, Germany 4 Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology, Heidelberg, Germany 5 Department of Human Genetics, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany 2
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[email protected]; Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Building E2.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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ABSTRACT A certain degree of bias in high-throughput molecular technologies including microarrays and nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) is known. To quantify the actual impact of the biomarker discovery platform on miRNA profiles we first performed a meta-analysis: raw data of 1,539 microarray and 705 NGS blood-borne miRNomes were statistically evaluated, suggesting a substantial influence of the technology on biomarker profiles. We observed highly significant dependency of the miRNA nucleotide composition on the expression level. Higher expression in NGS was discovered for uracil-37
rich miRNAs (p=7x10 ), while high expression in microarrays was found predominantly for guanine-33
rich miRNAs (p=3x10 ). To verify the findings, 10 identical replicates of one individual were measured using NGS and microarrays (2,525 miRNAs from miRBase version 21). Overall, we calculated a correlation coefficient of 0.414 for both technologies. Detailed analysis however revealed that the correlation was observed only for miRNAs in the early miRBase versions (
