Transcriptional termini of genes on chromosomes 21-22 (RACE mapping)

The purpose of these experiments was to determine the 5' and 3' transcriptional termini of genes on chromosomes 21-22. Towards this end, we first carried out 5’ and 3’ RACE reactions from 1193 exons from 492 genes in these chromosomes using RNA isolated from 11 normal tissues and 5 cell lines. An average of 3 to 4 RACE reactions (5’ and 3’) was carried out from each gene. The products of the RACE reactions were analyzed by hybridization to tiling arrays interrogating the non-repeat portions of these chromosomes at 17 nucleotide resolution. A total of 26,688 RACE reactions were performed and pooled to be placed on to 1020 tiling arrays For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODEDataReleasePolicyFinal2008.pdf polyA+ RNAs from 11 tissues (Brain Frontal Lobe, Brain Hippocampus, Brain Hypothalamus, Cerebellum, Ovary, Placenta, Prostate, Testis, Fetal Kidney, Fetal Spleen, Fetal Thymus; all from BD Clontech) and 5 cell lines (GM06990, HeLaS3, HepG2, K562, tert-BJ) using the BD SMARTTM RACE cDNA amplification kit (BD Clontech Cat. No.634914). A single array with no relplicas was run for each sample with a pool of ~23-24 RACE reactions per sample.