Abstract
Due to their unique cellular features, pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) acquire chromosomal aberrations at a rather high frequency during their growth in culture. Analysis of chromosomal integrity should be routinely performed and usually is done at the DNA level of the cells. RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) has recently become the basic tool for transcriptional studies. Therefore, methods that utilize this already available data to inspect the genomic integrity are very valuable. In this chapter, we provide a practical guide to implement methods of detection of chromosomal aberrations, which are based on RNA-Seq data. The expression-based karyotyping (e-Karyotyping) method is based on global gene expression analysis, while the expressed-SNP-karyotyping (eSNP-Karyotyping) method is based on changes in the ratio between alleles.
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Weissbein, U. (2019). Computational Analysis of Aneuploidy in Pluripotent Stem Cells. In: Cahan, P. (eds) Computational Stem Cell Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1975. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9224-9_18
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