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Mammalian cells from both sexes typically contain one active X chromosome but two sets of autosomes. It has previously been hypothesized that X-linked genes are expressed at twice the level of autosomal genes per active allele to balance the gene dose between the X chromosome and autosomes (termed 'Ohno's hypothesis'). This hypothesis was supported by the observation that microarray-based gene expression levels were indistinguishable between one X chromosome and two autosomes (the X to two autosomes ratio (X:AA) ~1). Here we show that RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is more sensitive than microarray and that RNA-Seq data reveal an X:AA ratio of ~0.5 in human and mouse. In Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites, the X:AA ratio reduces progressively from ~1 in larvae to ~0.5 in adults. Proteomic data are consistent with the RNA-Seq results and further suggest the lack of X upregulation at the protein level. Together, our findings reject Ohno’s hypothesis, necessitating a major revision of the current model of dosage compensation in the evolution of sex chromosomes. 相似文献
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The genetic imprinting of individual loci or whole chromosomes, as in imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mammals, is established and reset during gametogenesis; defects in this process in the parent can result in disease in the offspring. We describe a sperm-specific chromatin-based imprinting of the X chromosome in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans that is restricted to histone H3 modifications. The epigenetic imprint is established during spermatogenesis and its stability in the offspring is affected by the presence of a pairing partner during meiosis in the parental germ line. We observed that DNA lacking a pairing partner during meiosis, the normal situation for the X chromosome in males, is targeted for methylation of histone H3 at Lys9 (H3-Lys9) and can be silenced. Targeting unpaired DNA for silencing during meiosis, a potential hallmark of genome defense, could therefore have a conserved role in imprinted X-chromosome inactivation and, ultimately, in sex chromosome evolution. 相似文献
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Palstra RJ Tolhuis B Splinter E Nijmeijer R Grosveld F de Laat W 《Nature genetics》2003,35(2):190-194
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Thomas G Jacobs KB Yeager M Kraft P Wacholder S Orr N Yu K Chatterjee N Welch R Hutchinson A Crenshaw A Cancel-Tassin G Staats BJ Wang Z Gonzalez-Bosquet J Fang J Deng X Berndt SI Calle EE Feigelson HS Thun MJ Rodriguez C Albanes D Virtamo J Weinstein S Schumacher FR Giovannucci E Willett WC Cussenot O Valeri A Andriole GL Crawford ED Tucker M Gerhard DS Fraumeni JF Hoover R Hayes RB Hunter DJ Chanock SJ 《Nature genetics》2008,40(3):310-315
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Jansen G Thijssen KL Werner P van der Horst M Hazendonk E Plasterk RH 《Nature genetics》1999,21(4):414-419
Caenorhabditis elegans is the first animal whose genomic sequence has been determined. One of the new possibilities in post-sequence genetics is the analysis of complete gene families at once. We studied the family of heterotrimeric G proteins. C. elegans has 20 Galpha, 2 Gbeta and 2 Ggamma genes. There is 1 homologue of each of the 4 mammalian classes of Galpha genes, G(i)/G(o)alpha, G(s)alpha , G(q)alpha and G12alpha, and there are 16 new alpha genes. Although the conserved Galpha subunits are expressed in many neurons and muscle cells, GFP fusions indicate that 14 new Galpha genes are expressed almost exclusively in a small subset of the chemosensory neurons of C. elegans. We generated loss-of-function alleles using target-selected gene inactivation. None of the amphid-expressed genes are essential for viability, and only four show any detectable phenotype (chemotaxis defects), suggesting extensive functional redundancy. On the basis of functional analysis, the 20 genes encoding Galpha proteins can be divided into two groups: those that encode subunits affecting muscle activity (homologues of G(i)/G(o)alpha, G(s)alpha and G(q)), and those (14 new genes) that encode proteins most likely involved in perception. 相似文献
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Selection for short introns in highly expressed genes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Human-mouse genome comparisons to locate regulatory sites 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
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Park CC Ahn S Bloom JS Lin A Wang RT Wu T Sekar A Khan AH Farr CJ Lusis AJ Leahy RM Lange K Smith DJ 《Nature genetics》2008,40(4):421-429
We mapped regulatory loci for nearly all protein-coding genes in mammals using comparative genomic hybridization and expression array measurements from a panel of mouse-hamster radiation hybrid cell lines. The large number of breaks in the mouse chromosomes and the dense genotyping of the panel allowed extremely sharp mapping of loci. As the regulatory loci result from extra gene dosage, we call them copy number expression quantitative trait loci, or ceQTLs. The -2log10P support interval for the ceQTLs was <150 kb, containing an average of <2-3 genes. We identified 29,769 trans ceQTLs with -log10P > 4, including 13 hotspots each regulating >100 genes in trans. Further, this work identifies 2,761 trans ceQTLs harboring no known genes, and provides evidence for a mode of gene expression autoregulation specific to the X chromosome. 相似文献
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