Table 1.
Demographics of study participants
| DBS transcriptome | Whole blood transcriptome | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Gender | Age (years) | HIV infection | RIN | Total reads | Library size | RIN | Total reads | Library size |
| 1 | Male | 40 | Yes | 1.1 | 19,988,831* | 2,468,097 | 8.2 | 24,151,082 | 10,536,497 |
| 2 | Male | 31 | No | 1.1 | 26,350,541* | 800,788 | 7.5 | 22,607,544 | 14,158,669 |
| 3 | Female | 30 | No | 2.3 | 20,713,021* | 1,667,781 | 6.9 | 29,685,995 | 19,030,425 |
| 4 | Female | 38 | Yes | 1.7 | 22,426,091* | 1,960,781 | 6.3 | 21,246,880 | 10,211,765 |
| 5 | Female | 37 | Yes | 2.4 | 26,206,356* | 4,573,521 | 6.2 | 21,190,805 | 9,636,586 |
| 6 | Female | 20 | Yes | 1.8 | 21,902,329* | 2,335,387 | 7.4 | 21,481,941 | 11,082,507 |
| 7 | Female | 25 | Yes | 1.3 | 23,106,327* | 964,788 | 2.9 | 27,182,033* | 2,205,173 |
| 8 | Female | 35 | Yes | 2.4 | 20,416,063* | 1,469,987 | 2.2 | 26,095,689* | 1,299,210 |
DBS = dried blood spot; RIN = RNA integrity number.
*
Ribosomal RNA removal by RiboZero. All other libraries were generated from RNA which had been polyA selected.