Figure 4.
Distinct patterns of allele-specific miRNAs in the postmortem prefrontal cortex (PFC) of offspring without and with ASD. (a) Parental expression pattern of miRNAs was analyzed on a genome-wide scale with RNA-Seq in the PFC of both offspring. (b) Heatmap analyses of allele-specific expression profiles for miRNAs with fold changes of >0.5 or <−0.5 on a base-10 logarithmic scale between the offspring without and with ASD. (c,d) Allele-specific expression was validated for the miRNAs in (b) from the two offspring by Sanger sequencing. SNP information is shown as (paternal allele/maternal allele). Euclidean distance was used to generate the heatmap plots.