Description
The CAAS database presents a graphical overview of tissue specific alternative splicing (AS) annotation for
600 breast and ovarian cancer associated genes. To date, these genes have been annotated by comprehensive RT-PCR in two, 4-patient
serous ovarian tumour pools, and 2, 4-patient normal ovary pools. The gene list was obtained by a keyword search for "ovarian cancer" or
"breast cancer" on
Entrez Gene (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene),
performed in December 2005, followed by selection of those genes showing evidence of alternative splicing in the Aceview database
(
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/Research/Acembly/index.html).
Both the existence of all possible exon-exon junctions and the relative ratios for each AS variant from end-point RT-PCR data are
presented in graphical form. Full details on the interpretation of the data can be obtained in
Klinck et al., Cancer Res 68(3), 657-63, 2008