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Experimentally-derived haplotypes substantially increase the efficiency of linkage disequilibrium studies. 总被引:23,自引:0,他引:23
The study of complex genetic traits in humans is limited by the expense and difficulty of ascertaining populations of sufficient sample size to detect subtle genetic contributions to disease. Here we introduce an application of a somatic cell hybrid construction strategy called conversion that maximizes the genotypic information from each sampled individual. The approach permits direct observation of individual haplotypes, thereby eliminating the need for collecting and genotyping DNA from family members for haplotype-based analyses. We describe experimental data that validate the use of conversion as a whole-genome haplotyping tool and evaluate the theoretical efficiency of using conversion-derived haplotypes instead of conventional genotypes in the context of haplotype-frequency estimation. We show that, particularly when phenotyping is expensive, conversion-based haplotyping can be more efficient and cost-effective than standard genotyping. 相似文献
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Brown KM Macgregor S Montgomery GW Craig DW Zhao ZZ Iyadurai K Henders AK Homer N Campbell MJ Stark M Thomas S Schmid H Holland EA Gillanders EM Duffy DL Maskiell JA Jetann J Ferguson M Stephan DA Cust AE Whiteman D Green A Olsson H Puig S Ghiorzo P Hansson J Demenais F Goldstein AM Gruis NA Elder DE Bishop JN Kefford RF Giles GG Armstrong BK Aitken JF Hopper JL Martin NG Trent JM Mann GJ Hayward NK 《Nature genetics》2008,40(7):838-840
We conducted a genome-wide association pooling study for cutaneous melanoma and performed validation in samples totaling 2,019 cases and 2,105 controls. Using pooling, we identified a new melanoma risk locus on chromosome 20 (rs910873 and rs1885120), with replication in two further samples (combined P < 1 x 10(-15)). The per allele odds ratio was 1.75 (1.53, 2.01), with evidence for stronger association in early-onset cases. 相似文献
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Germline mutations in the ribonuclease L gene in families showing linkage with HPC1. 总被引:18,自引:0,他引:18
J Carpten N Nupponen S Isaacs R Sood C Robbins J Xu M Faruque T Moses C Ewing E Gillanders P Hu P Bujnovszky I Makalowska A Baffoe-Bonnie D Faith J Smith D Stephan K Wiley M Brownstein D Gildea B Kelly R Jenkins G Hostetter M Matikainen J Schleutker K Klinger T Connors Y Xiang Z Wang A De Marzo N Papadopoulos O-P Kallioniemi R Burk D Meyers H Gr?nberg P Meltzer R Silverman J Bailey-Wilson P Walsh W Isaacs J Trent 《Nature genetics》2002,30(2):181-184
Although prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous malignancy diagnosed in men in the United States, little is known about inherited factors that influence its genetic predisposition. Here we report that germline mutations in the gene encoding 2'-5'-oligoadenylate(2-5A)-dependent RNase L (RNASEL) segregate in prostate cancer families that show linkage to the HPC1 (hereditary prostate cancer 1) region at 1q24-25 (ref. 9). We identified RNASEL by a positional cloning/candidate gene method, and show that a nonsense mutation and a mutation in an initiation codon of RNASEL segregate independently in two HPC1-linked families. Inactive RNASEL alleles are present at a low frequency in the general population. RNASEL regulates cell proliferation and apoptosis through the interferon-regulated 2-5A pathway and has been suggested to be a candidate tumor suppressor gene. We found that microdissected tumors with a germline mutation showed loss of heterozygosity and loss of RNase L protein, and that RNASEL activity was reduced in lymphoblasts from heterozyogous individuals compared with family members who were homozygous with respect to the wildtype allele. Thus, germline mutations in RNASEL may be of diagnostic value, and the 2-5A pathway might provide opportunities for developing therapies for those with prostate cancer. 相似文献
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Hinch AG Tandon A Patterson N Song Y Rohland N Palmer CD Chen GK Wang K Buxbaum SG Akylbekova EL Aldrich MC Ambrosone CB Amos C Bandera EV Berndt SI Bernstein L Blot WJ Bock CH Boerwinkle E Cai Q Caporaso N Casey G Cupples LA Deming SL Diver WR Divers J Fornage M Gillanders EM Glessner J Harris CC Hu JJ Ingles SA Isaacs W John EM Kao WH Keating B Kittles RA Kolonel LN Larkin E Le Marchand L McNeill LH Millikan RC Murphy A Musani S Neslund-Dudas C Nyante S Papanicolaou GJ Press MF Psaty BM 《Nature》2011,476(7359):170-175
Recombination, together with mutation, gives rise to genetic variation in populations. Here we leverage the recent mixture of people of African and European ancestry in the Americas to build a genetic map measuring the probability of crossing over at each position in the genome, based on about 2.1 million crossovers in 30,000 unrelated African Americans. At intervals of more than three megabases it is nearly identical to a map built in Europeans. At finer scales it differs significantly, and we identify about 2,500 recombination hotspots that are active in people of West African ancestry but nearly inactive in Europeans. The probability of a crossover at these hotspots is almost fully controlled by the alleles an individual carries at PRDM9 (P?value 10(-245)). We identify a 17-base-pair DNA sequence motif that is enriched in these hotspots, and is an excellent match to the predicted binding target of PRDM9 alleles common in West Africans and rare in Europeans. Sites of this motif are predicted to be risk loci for disease-causing genomic rearrangements in individuals carrying these alleles. More generally, this map provides a resource for research in human genetic variation and evolution. 相似文献
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Carpten JD Robbins CM Villablanca A Forsberg L Presciuttini S Bailey-Wilson J Simonds WF Gillanders EM Kennedy AM Chen JD Agarwal SK Sood R Jones MP Moses TY Haven C Petillo D Leotlela PD Harding B Cameron D Pannett AA Höög A Heath H James-Newton LA Robinson B Zarbo RJ Cavaco BM Wassif W Perrier ND Rosen IB Kristoffersson U Turnpenny PD Farnebo LO Besser GM Jackson CE Morreau H Trent JM Thakker RV Marx SJ Teh BT Larsson C Hobbs MR 《Nature genetics》2002,32(4):676-680
We report here the identification of a gene associated with the hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor (HPT-JT) syndrome. A single locus associated with HPT-JT (HRPT2) was previously mapped to chromosomal region 1q25-q32. We refined this region to a critical interval of 12 cM by genotyping in 26 affected kindreds. Using a positional candidate approach, we identified thirteen different heterozygous, germline, inactivating mutations in a single gene in fourteen families with HPT-JT. The proposed role of HRPT2 as a tumor suppressor was supported by mutation screening in 48 parathyroid adenomas with cystic features, which identified three somatic inactivating mutations, all located in exon 1. None of these mutations were detected in normal controls, and all were predicted to cause deficient or impaired protein function. HRPT2 is a ubiquitously expressed, evolutionarily conserved gene encoding a predicted protein of 531 amino acids, for which we propose the name parafibromin. Our findings suggest that HRPT2 is a tumor-suppressor gene, the inactivation of which is directly involved in predisposition to HPT-JT and in development of some sporadic parathyroid tumors. 相似文献
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Molecular classification of cutaneous malignant melanoma by gene expression profiling 总被引:91,自引:0,他引:91
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