A catalogue of naturally occurring alternative splicing

A catalogue of naturally occurring alternative splicing events in lymphocytes and epithelial breast tissue in 11 BC-HR genes. We will use GENCODE annotations (retrieved from Ensemble) to predict alternative splicing events occurring in the 11 BC-HR genes. This information will be used to design a set of overlapping cDNA amplicons covering the full-length reference transcript of each gene. Subsequently, RNA from lymphocytes (healthy blood donors) and from normal breast tissue (either commercially available or from cosmetic surgery) will be used for analysis of RT-PCR amplicons by capillary electrophoresis (CEP) and direct sequencing by Sanger. This will yield a catalogue of alternative splicing for each of the BC-HR genes, as well as tissue-specific differences therein.