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Martin J Han C Gordon LA Terry A Prabhakar S She X Xie G Hellsten U Chan YM Altherr M Couronne O Aerts A Bajorek E Black S Blumer H Branscomb E Brown NC Bruno WJ Buckingham JM Callen DF Campbell CS Campbell ML Campbell EW Caoile C Challacombe JF Chasteen LA Chertkov O Chi HC Christensen M Clark LM Cohn JD Denys M Detter JC Dickson M Dimitrijevic-Bussod M Escobar J Fawcett JJ Flowers D Fotopulos D Glavina T Gomez M Gonzales E Goodstein D Goodwin LA Grady DL Grigoriev I Groza M Hammon N Hawkins T 《Nature》2004,432(7020):988-994
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Heilig R Eckenberg R Petit JL Fonknechten N Da Silva C Cattolico L Levy M Barbe V de Berardinis V Ureta-Vidal A Pelletier E Vico V Anthouard V Rowen L Madan A Qin S Sun H Du H Pepin K Artiguenave F Robert C Cruaud C Brüls T Jaillon O Friedlander L Samson G Brottier P Cure S Ségurens B Anière F Samain S Crespeau H Abbasi N Aiach N Boscus D Dickhoff R Dors M Dubois I Friedman C Gouyvenoux M James R Madan A Mairey-Estrada B Mangenot S Martins N Ménard M Oztas S Ratcliffe A Shaffer T Trask B 《Nature》2003,421(6923):601-607
Chromosome 14 is one of five acrocentric chromosomes in the human genome. These chromosomes are characterized by a heterochromatic short arm that contains essentially ribosomal RNA genes, and a euchromatic long arm in which most, if not all, of the protein-coding genes are located. The finished sequence of human chromosome 14 comprises 87,410,661 base pairs, representing 100% of its euchromatic portion, in a single continuous segment covering the entire long arm with no gaps. Two loci of crucial importance for the immune system, as well as more than 60 disease genes, have been localized so far on chromosome 14. We identified 1,050 genes and gene fragments, and 393 pseudogenes. On the basis of comparisons with other vertebrate genomes, we estimate that more than 96% of the chromosome 14 genes have been annotated. From an analysis of the CpG island occurrences, we estimate that 70% of these annotated genes are complete at their 5' end. 相似文献
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Mungall AJ Palmer SA Sims SK Edwards CA Ashurst JL Wilming L Jones MC Horton R Hunt SE Scott CE Gilbert JG Clamp ME Bethel G Milne S Ainscough R Almeida JP Ambrose KD Andrews TD Ashwell RI Babbage AK Bagguley CL Bailey J Banerjee R Barker DJ Barlow KF Bates K Beare DM Beasley H Beasley O Bird CP Blakey S Bray-Allen S Brook J Brown AJ Brown JY Burford DC Burrill W Burton J Carder C Carter NP Chapman JC Clark SY Clark G Clee CM Clegg S Cobley V Collier RE Collins JE Colman LK Corby NR Coville GJ 《Nature》2003,425(6960):805-811
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Specific genes are assumed to regulate pattern formation in the mammalian embryo, but as yet none has been identified unequivocally. It is possible that such genes in mammals may be identified by virtue of a conserved coding sequence, because many of the Drosophila melanogaster homoeotic and segmentation genes, which have crucial roles in the regulation of segmental pattern formation during embryonic development, contain a 180-base pair (bp) DNA sequence, the homoeo box, and that sequences homologous to the Drosophila homoeo box are also present in 6-10 copies in higher animals, including mammals. Although the assumption that the homoeo box identifies genes responsible for pattern formation in mammals remains to be validated, it is a particularly attractive hypothesis given the strong conservation of homoeo boxes over vast evolutionary distances. Here we report the localization of a human homoeo box region, previously cloned and shown to contain two homoeo boxes within a sequence of 5-kilobases (kb), to the long arm of chromosome 17. We show that two single-copy homoeo box-flanking probes derived from this region strongly hybridize to single-copy restriction fragments in mouse genomic DNA and that these conserved homoeo box-flanking sequences map to mouse chromosome 11. This may be significant as several genes that map to chromosome 17 in human also map to chromosome 11 in the mouse, implying that a segment of mouse chromosome 11 is homologous to a region of human chromosome 17. Taken together, these data suggest that the homoeo box region detected with our probes is highly conserved in human and mouse. 相似文献
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Scherer SE Muzny DM Buhay CJ Chen R Cree A Ding Y Dugan-Rocha S Gill R Gunaratne P Harris RA Hawes AC Hernandez J Hodgson AV Hume J Jackson A Khan ZM Kovar-Smith C Lewis LR Lozado RJ Metzker ML Milosavljevic A Miner GR Montgomery KT Morgan MB Nazareth LV Scott G Sodergren E Song XZ Steffen D Lovering RC Wheeler DA Worley KC Yuan Y Zhang Z Adams CQ Ansari-Lari MA Ayele M Brown MJ Chen G Chen Z Clerc-Blankenburg KP Davis C Delgado O Dinh HH Draper H Gonzalez-Garay ML Havlak P Jackson LR Jacob LS 《Nature》2006,440(7082):346-351
Human chromosome 12 contains more than 1,400 coding genes and 487 loci that have been directly implicated in human disease. The q arm of chromosome 12 contains one of the largest blocks of linkage disequilibrium found in the human genome. Here we present the finished sequence of human chromosome 12, which has been finished to high quality and spans approximately 132 megabases, representing approximately 4.5% of the human genome. Alignment of the human chromosome 12 sequence across vertebrates reveals the origin of individual segments in chicken, and a unique history of rearrangement through rodent and primate lineages. The rate of base substitutions in recent evolutionary history shows an overall slowing in hominids compared with primates and rodents. 相似文献
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The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Sasaki T Matsumoto T Yamamoto K Sakata K Baba T Katayose Y Wu J Niimura Y Cheng Z Nagamura Y Antonio BA Kanamori H Hosokawa S Masukawa M Arikawa K Chiden Y Hayashi M Okamoto M Ando T Aoki H Arita K Hamada M Harada C Hijishita S Honda M Ichikawa Y Idonuma A Iijima M Ikeda M Ikeno M Ito S Ito T Ito Y Ito Y Iwabuchi A Kamiya K Karasawa W Katagiri S Kikuta A Kobayashi N Kono I Machita K Maehara T Mizuno H Mizubayashi T Mukai Y Nagasaki H Nakashima M Nakama Y Nakamichi Y Nakamura M Namiki N 《Nature》2002,420(6913):312-316
The rice species Oryza sativa is considered to be a model plant because of its small genome size, extensive genetic map, relative ease of transformation and synteny with other cereal crops. Here we report the essentially complete sequence of chromosome 1, the longest chromosome in the rice genome. We summarize characteristics of the chromosome structure and the biological insight gained from the sequence. The analysis of 43.3 megabases (Mb) of non-overlapping sequence reveals 6,756 protein coding genes, of which 3,161 show homology to proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana, another model plant. About 30% (2,073) of the genes have been functionally categorized. Rice chromosome 1 is (G + C)-rich, especially in its coding regions, and is characterized by several gene families that are dispersed or arranged in tandem repeats. Comparison with a draft sequence indicates the importance of a high-quality finished sequence. 相似文献
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Hillier LW Graves TA Fulton RS Fulton LA Pepin KH Minx P Wagner-McPherson C Layman D Wylie K Sekhon M Becker MC Fewell GA Delehaunty KD Miner TL Nash WE Kremitzki C Oddy L Du H Sun H Bradshaw-Cordum H Ali J Carter J Cordes M Harris A Isak A van Brunt A Nguyen C Du F Courtney L Kalicki J Ozersky P Abbott S Armstrong J Belter EA Caruso L Cedroni M Cotton M Davidson T Desai A Elliott G Erb T Fronick C Gaige T Haakenson W Haglund K Holmes A Harkins R Kim K Kruchowski SS Strong CM Grewal N Goyea E 《Nature》2005,434(7034):724-731
Human chromosome 2 is unique to the human lineage in being the product of a head-to-head fusion of two intermediate-sized ancestral chromosomes. Chromosome 4 has received attention primarily related to the search for the Huntington's disease gene, but also for genes associated with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, polycystic kidney disease and a form of muscular dystrophy. Here we present approximately 237 million base pairs of sequence for chromosome 2, and 186 million base pairs for chromosome 4, representing more than 99.6% of their euchromatic sequences. Our initial analyses have identified 1,346 protein-coding genes and 1,239 pseudogenes on chromosome 2, and 796 protein-coding genes and 778 pseudogenes on chromosome 4. Extensive analyses confirm the underlying construction of the sequence, and expand our understanding of the structure and evolution of mammalian chromosomes, including gene deserts, segmental duplications and highly variant regions. 相似文献
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Hillier LW Fulton RS Fulton LA Graves TA Pepin KH Wagner-McPherson C Layman D Maas J Jaeger S Walker R Wylie K Sekhon M Becker MC O'Laughlin MD Schaller ME Fewell GA Delehaunty KD Miner TL Nash WE Cordes M Du H Sun H Edwards J Bradshaw-Cordum H Ali J Andrews S Isak A Vanbrunt A Nguyen C Du F Lamar B Courtney L Kalicki J Ozersky P Bielicki L Scott K Holmes A Harkins R Harris A Strong CM Hou S Tomlinson C Dauphin-Kohlberg S Kozlowicz-Reilly A Leonard S Rohlfing T Rock SM Tin-Wollam AM Abbott A 《Nature》2003,424(6945):157-164
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Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium 《Nature》2004,432(7018):695-716
We present here a draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus. Because the chicken is a modern descendant of the dinosaurs and the first non-mammalian amniote to have its genome sequenced, the draft sequence of its genome--composed of approximately one billion base pairs of sequence and an estimated 20,000-23,000 genes--provides a new perspective on vertebrate genome evolution, while also improving the annotation of mammalian genomes. For example, the evolutionary distance between chicken and human provides high specificity in detecting functional elements, both non-coding and coding. Notably, many conserved non-coding sequences are far from genes and cannot be assigned to defined functional classes. In coding regions the evolutionary dynamics of protein domains and orthologous groups illustrate processes that distinguish the lineages leading to birds and mammals. The distinctive properties of avian microchromosomes, together with the inferred patterns of conserved synteny, provide additional insights into vertebrate chromosome architecture. 相似文献
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Gregory SG Barlow KF McLay KE Kaul R Swarbreck D Dunham A Scott CE Howe KL Woodfine K Spencer CC Jones MC Gillson C Searle S Zhou Y Kokocinski F McDonald L Evans R Phillips K Atkinson A Cooper R Jones C Hall RE Andrews TD Lloyd C Ainscough R Almeida JP Ambrose KD Anderson F Andrew RW Ashwell RI Aubin K Babbage AK Bagguley CL Bailey J Beasley H Bethel G Bird CP Bray-Allen S Brown JY Brown AJ Buckley D Burton J Bye J Carder C Chapman JC Clark SY Clarke G Clee C Cobley V Collier RE Corby N 《Nature》2006,441(7091):315-321
The reference sequence for each human chromosome provides the framework for understanding genome function, variation and evolution. Here we report the finished sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1. Chromosome 1 is gene-dense, with 3,141 genes and 991 pseudogenes, and many coding sequences overlap. Rearrangements and mutations of chromosome 1 are prevalent in cancer and many other diseases. Patterns of sequence variation reveal signals of recent selection in specific genes that may contribute to human fitness, and also in regions where no function is evident. Fine-scale recombination occurs in hotspots of varying intensity along the sequence, and is enriched near genes. These and other studies of human biology and disease encoded within chromosome 1 are made possible with the highly accurate annotated sequence, as part of the completed set of chromosome sequences that comprise the reference human genome. 相似文献
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Dunham A Matthews LH Burton J Ashurst JL Howe KL Ashcroft KJ Beare DM Burford DC Hunt SE Griffiths-Jones S Jones MC Keenan SJ Oliver K Scott CE Ainscough R Almeida JP Ambrose KD Andrews DT Ashwell RI Babbage AK Bagguley CL Bailey J Bannerjee R Barlow KF Bates K Beasley H Bird CP Bray-Allen S Brown AJ Brown JY Burrill W Carder C Carter NP Chapman JC Clamp ME Clark SY Clarke G Clee CM Clegg SC Cobley V Collins JE Corby N Coville GJ Deloukas P Dhami P Dunham I Dunn M Earthrowl ME Ellington AG 《Nature》2004,428(6982):522-528
Chromosome 13 is the largest acrocentric human chromosome. It carries genes involved in cancer including the breast cancer type 2 (BRCA2) and retinoblastoma (RB1) genes, is frequently rearranged in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, and contains the DAOA locus associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. We describe completion and analysis of 95.5 megabases (Mb) of sequence from chromosome 13, which contains 633 genes and 296 pseudogenes. We estimate that more than 95.4% of the protein-coding genes of this chromosome have been identified, on the basis of comparison with other vertebrate genome sequences. Additionally, 105 putative non-coding RNA genes were found. Chromosome 13 has one of the lowest gene densities (6.5 genes per Mb) among human chromosomes, and contains a central region of 38 Mb where the gene density drops to only 3.1 genes per Mb. 相似文献
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Bentley SD Chater KF Cerdeño-Tárraga AM Challis GL Thomson NR James KD Harris DE Quail MA Kieser H Harper D Bateman A Brown S Chandra G Chen CW Collins M Cronin A Fraser A Goble A Hidalgo J Hornsby T Howarth S Huang CH Kieser T Larke L Murphy L Oliver K O'Neil S Rabbinowitsch E Rajandream MA Rutherford K Rutter S Seeger K Saunders D Sharp S Squares R Squares S Taylor K Warren T Wietzorrek A Woodward J Barrell BG Parkhill J Hopwood DA 《Nature》2002,417(6885):141-147
Streptomyces coelicolor is a representative of the group of soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria responsible for producing most natural antibiotics used in human and veterinary medicine. Here we report the 8,667,507 base pair linear chromosome of this organism, containing the largest number of genes so far discovered in a bacterium. The 7,825 predicted genes include more than 20 clusters coding for known or predicted secondary metabolites. The genome contains an unprecedented proportion of regulatory genes, predominantly those likely to be involved in responses to external stimuli and stresses, and many duplicated gene sets that may represent 'tissue-specific' isoforms operating in different phases of colonial development, a unique situation for a bacterium. An ancient synteny was revealed between the central 'core' of the chromosome and the whole chromosome of pathogens Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The genome sequence will greatly increase our understanding of microbial life in the soil as well as aiding the generation of new drug candidates by genetic engineering. 相似文献
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Grimwood J Gordon LA Olsen A Terry A Schmutz J Lamerdin J Hellsten U Goodstein D Couronne O Tran-Gyamfi M Aerts A Altherr M Ashworth L Bajorek E Black S Branscomb E Caenepeel S Carrano A Caoile C Chan YM Christensen M Cleland CA Copeland A Dalin E Dehal P Denys M Detter JC Escobar J Flowers D Fotopulos D Garcia C Georgescu AM Glavina T Gomez M Gonzales E Groza M Hammon N Hawkins T Haydu L Ho I Huang W Israni S Jett J Kadner K Kimball H Kobayashi A Larionov V Leem SH Lopez F Lou Y Lowry S 《Nature》2004,428(6982):529-535
Chromosome 19 has the highest gene density of all human chromosomes, more than double the genome-wide average. The large clustered gene families, corresponding high G + C content, CpG islands and density of repetitive DNA indicate a chromosome rich in biological and evolutionary significance. Here we describe 55.8 million base pairs of highly accurate finished sequence representing 99.9% of the euchromatin portion of the chromosome. Manual curation of gene loci reveals 1,461 protein-coding genes and 321 pseudogenes. Among these are genes directly implicated in mendelian disorders, including familial hypercholesterolaemia and insulin-resistant diabetes. Nearly one-quarter of these genes belong to tandemly arranged families, encompassing more than 25% of the chromosome. Comparative analyses show a fascinating picture of conservation and divergence, revealing large blocks of gene orthology with rodents, scattered regions with more recent gene family expansions and deletions, and segments of coding and non-coding conservation with the distant fish species Takifugu. 相似文献
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Hattori M Fujiyama A Taylor TD Watanabe H Yada T Park HS Toyoda A Ishii K Totoki Y Choi DK Groner Y Soeda E Ohki M Takagi T Sakaki Y Taudien S Blechschmidt K Polley A Menzel U Delabar J Kumpf K Lehmann R Patterson D Reichwald K Rump A Schillhabel M Schudy A Zimmermann W Rosenthal A Kudoh J Schibuya K Kawasaki K Asakawa S Shintani A Sasaki T Nagamine K Mitsuyama S Antonarakis SE Minoshima S Shimizu N Nordsiek G Hornischer K Brant P Scharfe M Schon O Desario A Reichelt J Kauer G Blocker H 《Nature》2000,405(6784):311-319
Chromosome 21 is the smallest human autosome. An extra copy of chromosome 21 causes Down syndrome, the most frequent genetic cause of significant mental retardation, which affects up to 1 in 700 live births. Several anonymous loci for monogenic disorders and predispositions for common complex disorders have also been mapped to this chromosome, and loss of heterozygosity has been observed in regions associated with solid tumours. Here we report the sequence and gene catalogue of the long arm of chromosome 21. We have sequenced 33,546,361 base pairs (bp) of DNA with very high accuracy, the largest contig being 25,491,867 bp. Only three small clone gaps and seven sequencing gaps remain, comprising about 100 kilobases. Thus, we achieved 99.7% coverage of 21q. We also sequenced 281,116 bp from the short arm. The structural features identified include duplications that are probably involved in chromosomal abnormalities and repeat structures in the telomeric and pericentromeric regions. Analysis of the chromosome revealed 127 known genes, 98 predicted genes and 59 pseudogenes. 相似文献
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Scally A Dutheil JY Hillier LW Jordan GE Goodhead I Herrero J Hobolth A Lappalainen T Mailund T Marques-Bonet T McCarthy S Montgomery SH Schwalie PC Tang YA Ward MC Xue Y Yngvadottir B Alkan C Andersen LN Ayub Q Ball EV Beal K Bradley BJ Chen Y Clee CM Fitzgerald S Graves TA Gu Y Heath P Heger A Karakoc E Kolb-Kokocinski A Laird GK Lunter G Meader S Mort M Mullikin JC Munch K O'Connor TD Phillips AD Prado-Martinez J Rogers AS Sajjadian S Schmidt D Shaw K Simpson JT Stenson PD Turner DJ 《Nature》2012,483(7388):169-175
Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable importance for the study of human origins and evolution. Here we present the assembly and analysis of a genome sequence for the western lowland gorilla, and compare the whole genomes of all extant great ape genera. We propose a synthesis of genetic and fossil evidence consistent with placing the human-chimpanzee and human-chimpanzee-gorilla speciation events at approximately 6 and 10 million years ago. In 30% of the genome, gorilla is closer to human or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other; this is rarer around coding genes, indicating pervasive selection throughout great ape evolution, and has functional consequences in gene expression. A comparison of protein coding genes reveals approximately 500 genes showing accelerated evolution on each of the gorilla, human and chimpanzee lineages, and evidence for parallel acceleration, particularly of genes involved in hearing. We also compare the western and eastern gorilla species, estimating an average sequence divergence time 1.75 million years ago, but with evidence for more recent genetic exchange and a population bottleneck in the eastern species. The use of the genome sequence in these and future analyses will promote a deeper understanding of great ape biology and evolution. 相似文献
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Watanabe H Fujiyama A Hattori M Taylor TD Toyoda A Kuroki Y Noguchi H BenKahla A Lehrach H Sudbrak R Kube M Taenzer S Galgoczy P Platzer M Scharfe M Nordsiek G Blöcker H Hellmann I Khaitovich P Pääbo S Reinhardt R Zheng HJ Zhang XL Zhu GF Wang BF Fu G Ren SX Zhao GP Chen Z Lee YS Cheong JE Choi SH Wu KM Liu TT Hsiao KJ Tsai SF Kim CG OOta S Kitano T Kohara Y Saitou N Park HS Wang SY Yaspo ML Sakaki Y 《Nature》2004,429(6990):382-388
Human-chimpanzee comparative genome research is essential for narrowing down genetic changes involved in the acquisition of unique human features, such as highly developed cognitive functions, bipedalism or the use of complex language. Here, we report the high-quality DNA sequence of 33.3 megabases of chimpanzee chromosome 22. By comparing the whole sequence with the human counterpart, chromosome 21, we found that 1.44% of the chromosome consists of single-base substitutions in addition to nearly 68,000 insertions or deletions. These differences are sufficient to generate changes in most of the proteins. Indeed, 83% of the 231 coding sequences, including functionally important genes, show differences at the amino acid sequence level. Furthermore, we demonstrate different expansion of particular subfamilies of retrotransposons between the lineages, suggesting different impacts of retrotranspositions on human and chimpanzee evolution. The genomic changes after speciation and their biological consequences seem more complex than originally hypothesized. 相似文献
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Mayer K Schüller C Wambutt R Murphy G Volckaert G Pohl T Düsterhöft A Stiekema W Entian KD Terryn N Harris B Ansorge W Brandt P Grivell L Rieger M Weichselgartner M de Simone V Obermaier B Mache R Müller M Kreis M Delseny M Puigdomenech P Watson M Schmidtheini T Reichert B Portatelle D Perez-Alonso M Boutry M Bancroft I Vos P Hoheisel J Zimmermann W Wedler H Ridley P Langham SA McCullagh B Bilham L Robben J Van der Schueren J Grymonprez B Chuang YJ Vandenbussche F Braeken M Weltjens I Voet M 《Nature》1999,402(6763):769-777
The higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) is an important model for identifying plant genes and determining their function. To assist biological investigations and to define chromosome structure, a coordinated effort to sequence the Arabidopsis genome was initiated in late 1996. Here we report one of the first milestones of this project, the sequence of chromosome 4. Analysis of 17.38 megabases of unique sequence, representing about 17% of the genome, reveals 3,744 protein coding genes, 81 transfer RNAs and numerous repeat elements. Heterochromatic regions surrounding the putative centromere, which has not yet been completely sequenced, are characterized by an increased frequency of a variety of repeats, new repeats, reduced recombination, lowered gene density and lowered gene expression. Roughly 60% of the predicted protein-coding genes have been functionally characterized on the basis of their homology to known genes. Many genes encode predicted proteins that are homologous to human and Caenorhabditis elegans proteins. 相似文献
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DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae 总被引:23,自引:0,他引:23
Heidelberg JF Eisen JA Nelson WC Clayton RA Gwinn ML Dodson RJ Haft DH Hickey EK Peterson JD Umayam L Gill SR Nelson KE Read TD Tettelin H Richardson D Ermolaeva MD Vamathevan J Bass S Qin H Dragoi I Sellers P McDonald L Utterback T Fleishmann RD Nierman WC White O Salzberg SL Smith HO Colwell RR Mekalanos JJ Venter JC Fraser CM 《Nature》2000,406(6795):477-483
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Ross MT Grafham DV Coffey AJ Scherer S McLay K Muzny D Platzer M Howell GR Burrows C Bird CP Frankish A Lovell FL Howe KL Ashurst JL Fulton RS Sudbrak R Wen G Jones MC Hurles ME Andrews TD Scott CE Searle S Ramser J Whittaker A Deadman R Carter NP Hunt SE Chen R Cree A Gunaratne P Havlak P Hodgson A Metzker ML Richards S Scott G Steffen D Sodergren E Wheeler DA Worley KC Ainscough R Ambrose KD Ansari-Lari MA Aradhya S Ashwell RI Babbage AK Bagguley CL Ballabio A Banerjee R Barker GE Barlow KF 《Nature》2005,434(7031):325-337
The human X chromosome has a unique biology that was shaped by its evolution as the sex chromosome shared by males and females. We have determined 99.3% of the euchromatic sequence of the X chromosome. Our analysis illustrates the autosomal origin of the mammalian sex chromosomes, the stepwise process that led to the progressive loss of recombination between X and Y, and the extent of subsequent degradation of the Y chromosome. LINE1 repeat elements cover one-third of the X chromosome, with a distribution that is consistent with their proposed role as way stations in the process of X-chromosome inactivation. We found 1,098 genes in the sequence, of which 99 encode proteins expressed in testis and in various tumour types. A disproportionately high number of mendelian diseases are documented for the X chromosome. Of this number, 168 have been explained by mutations in 113 X-linked genes, which in many cases were characterized with the aid of the DNA sequence. 相似文献
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Sequence identification of 2,375 human brain genes. 总被引:81,自引:0,他引:81
M D Adams M Dubnick A R Kerlavage R Moreno J M Kelley T R Utterback J W Nagle C Fields J C Venter 《Nature》1992,355(6361):632-634
We recently described a new approach for the rapid characterization of expressed genes by partial DNA sequencing to generate 'expressed sequence tags'. From a set of 600 human brain complementary DNA clones, 348 were informative nuclear-encoded messenger RNAs. We have now partially sequenced 2,672 new, independent cDNA clones isolated from four human brain cDNA libraries to generate 2,375 expressed sequence tags to nuclear-encoded genes. These sequences, together with 348 brain expressed sequence tags from our previous study, comprise more than 2,500 new human genes and 870,769 base pairs of DNA sequence. These data represent an approximate doubling of the number of human genes identified by DNA sequencing and may represent as many as 5% of the genes in the human genome. 相似文献