RNA-seq of 12-weeks-old male murine heart ventricles.

RNA-Seq analysis of mouse cardiac transcriptome. RNA was isolated from the ventricles of 12-weeks-old male mice. Sequencing libraries were prepared using TrueSeq Stranded RNA LT Kit Ribo-Zero Gold (Illumina, 15032619). Libraries were pair-end sequenced on a MiSeq sequencer (Illumina) and mapped to the Mus musculus reference genome GRCm38 (https://support.illumina.com/sequencing/sequencing_software/igenome.html) using TopHat2 (Kim et al., 2013). Differential gene-expression analysis between controls and the EphB4 flox mice was performed using DESeq2 (Love et al., 2014). Read counts were obtained with HTSeq (Anders et al., 2015). Genes were considered as differentially expressed when the FDR-adjusted p-value was =0.05.