A systemic approach to screening high-throughput RT-qPCR data for a suitable set of reference circulating miRNAs

Background The consensus on how to choose a reference gene for serum or plasma miRNA expression qPCR studies has not been reached and none of the potential candidates have yet been convincingly validated. We proposed a new in silico approach of finding a suitable reference for human, circulating miRNAs and identified a new set of endogenous reference miRNA based on miRNA profiling experiments from Gene Expression Omnibus. We used 3 known normalization algorithms (NormFinder, BestKeeper, GeNorm) to calculate a new normalization score. We searched for a universal set of endogenous miRNAs and validated our findings on 2 new datasets using our approach. Results We discovered and validated a set of 13 miRNAs (miR-222, miR-92a, miR-27a, miR-17, miR-24, miR-320a, miR-25, miR-126, miR-19b, miR-199a-3p, miR-30b, miR-30c, miR-374a) that can be used to create a reliable reference combination of 3 miRNAs. We showed that on average the mean of 3 miRNAs (p = 0.0002) and 2 miRNAs (p = 0.0031) were a better reference than single miRNA. The arithmetic means of 3 miRNAs: miR-24, miR-222 and miR-27a was shown to be the most stable combination of 3 miRNAs in validation sets. Conclusions No single miRNA was suitable as a universal reference in serum miRNA qPCR profiling, but it was possible to designate a set of miRNAs, which consistently contributed to most stable combinations..

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2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

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BMC genomics - 21(2020), 1 vom: 31. Jan.

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Englisch

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Pagacz, Konrad [VerfasserIn]
Kucharski, Przemyslaw [VerfasserIn]
Smyczynska, Urszula [VerfasserIn]
Grabia, Szymon [VerfasserIn]
Chowdhury, Dipanjan [VerfasserIn]
Fendler, Wojciech [VerfasserIn]

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10.1186/s12864-020-6530-3

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SPR027162737