why there are read counts in the gene knock out rat RNA-seq data

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Hi,

I am analyzing transcriptomic data for gene knock out rats. I wonder why there are still read counts in the knock out rat?

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ADD COMMENT • link 2.1 years ago • updated 2.0 years ago Yijing • 0

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How was the gene knocked out? If they just introduced a stop codon into it, transcription could still happen.

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Even for a multi-exon knockout you could (and indeed we often do in our KO mice) still detect some borderline expression. I mean, look at your data, you have a strong reduction of reads, almost two powers of 10, so that is fine. After all it's the functional protein knockout that counts, anyway the RNA-seq counts will be highly significant.

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Yes, it is evident that the gene's expression is reduced. But I just want to figure out why there are still some counts? It is due to the knock out technology or RNA-seq technology?