Comparison of whole transcriptome sequencing of fresh, frozen, and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded cardiac tissue.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
12
08
2022
accepted:
02
03
2023
medline:
31
3
2023
entrez:
29
3
2023
pubmed:
30
3
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The use of fresh tissue for molecular studies is preferred but often impossible. Instead, frozen or formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are widely used and constitute valuable resources for retrospective studies. We assessed the utility of cardiac tissue stored in different ways for gene expression analyses by whole transcriptome sequencing of paired fresh, frozen, and FFPE tissues. RNA extracted from FFPE was highly degraded. Sequencing of RNA from FFPE tissues yielded higher proportions of intronic and intergenic reads compared to RNA from fresh and frozen tissues. The global gene expression profiles varied with the storage conditions, particularly mitochondrial and long non-coding RNAs. However, we observed high correlations among protein-coding transcripts (ρ > 0.94) with the various storage conditions. We did not observe any significant storage effect on the allele-specific gene expression. However, FFPE had statistically significantly (p < 0.05) more discordant variant calls compared to fresh and frozen tissue. In conclusion, we found that frozen and FFPE tissues can be used for reliable gene expression analyses, provided that proper quality control is performed and caution regarding the technical variability is withheld.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36989279
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283159
pii: PONE-D-22-22543
pmc: PMC10058139
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA
63231-63-0
Formaldehyde
1HG84L3525
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0283159Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2023 Jacobsen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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