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Hello,
I am currently analyzing data from an exon array. After pre-processing
with RMA, with which I obtain a eSet with ensembl IDs, I would like to
annotate the gene with Entrez ID. I am using getBM function with as
input the ensembl gene ID and as output  the entrez gene ID. Here is a
part of the code I am using :
mart <- useMart("ensembl", dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
gene2genomeEx <- getBM(values = ex, filters = "ensembl_gene_id", mart
= mart, attributes = c("ensembl_gene_id", "entrezgene","hgnc_symbol",
"external_gene_id", "external_gene_db", "description",
"chromosome_name", "strand"))
However for several genes (and a lot of histone genes), I obtain
several entrez IDs for the same ensembl ID for example for :
ex <- c("ENSG00000215417", "ENSG00000224078", "ENSG00000198366",
"ENSG00000196176", "ENSG00000166012", "ENSG00000158406",
"ENSG00000196787"), I obtain :
   ensembl_gene_id entrezgene hgnc_symbol external_gene_id
external_gene_db
1  ENSG00000158406       8294    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
2  ENSG00000158406       8359    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
3  ENSG00000158406       8360    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
4  ENSG00000158406       8361    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
5  ENSG00000158406       8362    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
6  ENSG00000158406       8363    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
7  ENSG00000158406       8364    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
8  ENSG00000158406       8365    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
9  ENSG00000158406       8366    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
10 ENSG00000158406       8367    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
11 ENSG00000158406       8368    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
12 ENSG00000158406       8370    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
13 ENSG00000158406     121504    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
14 ENSG00000158406     554313    HIST1H4H         HIST1H4H      HGNC
Symbol
15 ENSG00000166012      79101       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
16 ENSG00000166012     654320       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
17 ENSG00000166012     677792       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
18 ENSG00000166012     677805       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
19 ENSG00000166012     677822       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
20 ENSG00000166012     692063       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
21 ENSG00000166012     692072       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
22 ENSG00000166012  100302240       TAF1D            TAF1D      HGNC
Symbol
23 ENSG00000196176       8294    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
24 ENSG00000196176       8359    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
25 ENSG00000196176       8360    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
26 ENSG00000196176       8361    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
27 ENSG00000196176       8362    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
28 ENSG00000196176       8363    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
29 ENSG00000196176       8364    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
30 ENSG00000196176       8365    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
31 ENSG00000196176       8366    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
32 ENSG00000196176       8367    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
33 ENSG00000196176       8368    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
34 ENSG00000196176       8370    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
35 ENSG00000196176     121504    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
36 ENSG00000196176     554313    HIST1H4A         HIST1H4A      HGNC
Symbol
37 ENSG00000196787       8329   HIST1H2AG        HIST1H2AG      HGNC
Symbol
38 ENSG00000196787       8330   HIST1H2AG        HIST1H2AG      HGNC
Symbol
39 ENSG00000196787       8332   HIST1H2AG        HIST1H2AG      HGNC
Symbol
40 ENSG00000196787       8336   HIST1H2AG        HIST1H2AG      HGNC
Symbol
41 ENSG00000196787       8969   HIST1H2AG        HIST1H2AG      HGNC
Symbol
42 ENSG00000196787      85235   HIST1H2AG        HIST1H2AG      HGNC
Symbol
43 ENSG00000198366       8350    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
44 ENSG00000198366       8351    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
45 ENSG00000198366       8352    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
46 ENSG00000198366       8353    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
47 ENSG00000198366       8354    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
48 ENSG00000198366       8355    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
49 ENSG00000198366       8356    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
50 ENSG00000198366       8357    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
51 ENSG00000198366       8358    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
52 ENSG00000198366       8968    HIST1H3A         HIST1H3A      HGNC
Symbol
53 ENSG00000215417     406952     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
54 ENSG00000215417     406953     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
55 ENSG00000215417     406979     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
56 ENSG00000215417     406980     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
57 ENSG00000215417     406982     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
58 ENSG00000215417     407048     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
59 ENSG00000215417     407975     MIR17HG          MIR17HG      HGNC
Symbol
60 ENSG00000224078      91380      SNHG14           SNHG14      HGNC
Symbol
61 ENSG00000224078  100033444      SNHG14           SNHG14      HGNC
Symbol
62 ENSG00000224078  100033450      SNHG14           SNHG14      HGNC
Symbol
63 ENSG00000224078  100033802      SNHG14           SNHG14      HGNC
Symbol
64 ENSG00000224078  100033820      SNHG14           SNHG14      HGNC
Symbol
65 ENSG00000224078  100506948      SNHG14           SNHG14      HGNC
Symbol
The description, chromosome_name and strand are the same for each
ensembl gene ID.
I checked manually for the entrez ID which corresponds to the ensembl
ID in ensembl.org, and I found only one entrezID for each gene. Does
anyone knows where this problem come from? Is it linked to the nature
of my request?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Yours sincerely,
Laure Cougnaud
 -- output of sessionInfo():
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
 [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
other attached packages:
[1] biomaRt_2.12.0     affy_1.34.0        Biobase_2.16.0
BiocGenerics_0.2.0 rj_1.1.0-4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] affyio_1.24.0         BiocInstaller_1.4.7   preprocessCore_1.18.0
RCurl_1.91-1          rj.gd_1.1.0-1         tools_2.15.1
[7] XML_3.9-4             zlibbioc_1.2.0
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