Characterization of differentially methylated regions in 3 bovine imprinted genes: a model for studying human germ-cell and embryo development.

abstract：:In order to understand the mechanisms of formation of chromosomal aberrations, studies performed on human syndromes with genomic instability can be fruitful. In this report, the results from studies in our laboratory on the importance of the transcription-coupled repair (TCR) pathway on the induction of chromosomal da...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Palitti F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As chromatin structures, telomeres undergo epigenetic regulation of their maintenance and function. In plants, these processes are likely of a higher complexity than in animals or yeasts, as exemplified by methylation of cytosines in plant telomeric DNA or reversible developmental regulation of plant telomerase. We hi...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Fojtová M,Fajkus J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the first physical mapping carried out in the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis), an important marine fish species of Southern Europe. Eight probes were designated to pick up genes of interest in aquaculture (candidate genes) from a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library using a method o...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： García-Cegarra A,Merlo MA,Ponce M,Portela-Bens S,Cross I,Manchado M,Rebordinos L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Astyanax is a specious Neotropical fish group, occurring from the south area of the United States to Argentina. During the past few years, intensive studies on representatives of this group have been performed, broadening the genetic, taxonomic and biogeographical knowledge considerably. However, phylogeneti...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Pansonato-Alves JC,Hilsdorf AW,Utsunomia R,Silva DM,Oliveira C,Foresti F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several patients with 5p duplication or 15q deletion have been reported in the literature, involving different chromosome regions and clinical features. Here, we describe a family in which we identified a 30-Mb 5p15.33p13.3 gain and a 2.5-Mb 15q26.3 loss in 3 individuals, due to a balanced familial translocation betwe...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Bellucco FT,Favilla BP,Perrone E,Melaragno MI

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that unrepaired or misrepaired DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) lead to the formation of chromosome aberrations. DSBs induced in the DNA of higher eukaryotes by endogenous processes or exogenous agents can in principle be repaired either by non-homologous endjoining (NHEJ), or homology directed re...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Iliakis G,Wang H,Perrault AR,Boecker W,Rosidi B,Windhofer F,Wu W,Guan J,Terzoudi G,Pantelias G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroelements (REs) actively reshape genomes through genomic rearrangements, creation of new genes and modulation of the regulatory machinery of existing genes, thus introducing genomic novelties which potentially may be subject to natural selection. Thousands of RE integrations, presumably distinguishing the human an...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Buzdin A,Vinogradova T,Lebedev Y,Sverdlov E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm chromosome abnormalities cut across a number of areas relevant to ICC XV. The association between increased levels of sperm aneuploidy (usually disomy) and male infertility has implications for the sessions on reproduction, sex chromosomes, aneuploidy and meiosis and was, to the best of our knowledge, first repo...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Tempest HG,Griffin DK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The osprey (Pandion haliaetus) has a diploid number of 74 chromosomes, consisting of a large number of medium-sized macrochromosomes and relatively few microchromosomes; this differs greatly from the typical avian karyotype. Chromosome painting with chicken DNA probes revealed that the karyotype of P. haliaetus differ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Nishida C,Ishishita S,Yamada K,Griffin DK,Matsuda Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are cell organelles that perform multiple functions in the metabolism of lipids and of reactive oxygen species. They are present in most eukaryotic cells. However, they are believed to be absent in spermatozoa and they have never been described in male germ cells. We have used the immortalized germ cell li...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Lüers GH,Schad A,Fahimi HD,Völkl A,Seitz J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from a personal tragedy, could Down syndrome, cancer and infertility possibly have something in common? Are there links between a syndrome with physical and mental problems, a tumor growing out of control and the incapability to reproduce? These questions can be answered if we look at the biological functions of...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Barbero JL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common type of karyotype abnormality detected in infertile subjects is represented by Klinefelter's syndrome, and the most frequent non-chromosomal alteration is represented by Y chromosome long arm microdeletions. Here we report our experience and a review of the literature on sperm sex chromosome aneuploidi...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Ferlin A,Garolla A,Foresta C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified LIM-kinase (LIMK1 and LIMK2), the only known catalytic protein among LIM-family molecules. Both LIMK1 and LIMK2 phosphorylate (inactivate) cofilin, an actin depolymerizing factor, and induce actin cytoskeleton reorganization. We as well as others concurrently demonstrated that LIMK activation was re...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Takahashi H,Funakoshi H,Nakamura T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large pericentric inversions in chromosome 10 are rare chromosomal aberrations with only few cases of familial inheritance. Such chromosomal rearrangements may lead to production of unbalanced gametes. As a result of a recombination event in the inversion loop, 2 recombinants with duplicated and deficient chromosome s...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Ciuladaite Z,Preiksaitiene E,Utkus A,Kučinskas V

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catarrhine primates were the first group of species studied with comparative molecular cytogenetics. Many of the fundamental techniques and principles of analysis were initially applied to comparisons in these primates, including interspecific chromosome painting, reciprocal chromosome painting and the extensive u...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Stanyon R,Rocchi M,Bigoni F,Archidiacono N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of individual dog chromosomes is problematic because the 38 pairs of autosomes are small and acrocentric. Here we describe the design and application of a FISH tool that enables definitive identification of each dog autosome in a normal karyotype, without relying on subjective interpretation of DAPI...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Courtay-Cahen C,Griffiths LA,Hudson R,Starkey M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suborder Serpentes is divided into 2 infraorders, Scolecophidia and Alethinophidia, which diverged at an early stage of snake diversification. In this study, we examined karyotypes of 4 scolecophidian species (Letheobia simonii, Xerotyphlops vermicularis, Indotyphlops braminus, and Myriopholis macrorhyncha) and pe...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Matsubara K,Kumazawa Y,Ota H,Nishida C,Matsuda Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rye each B chromosome (B) represents 5.5% of the diploid A genome. Rye Bs have several nuclear to whole plant effects although they seem to bear no genes except for the ones that lead to their maintenance within a population. In this context, and considering that rye Bs are enriched in repetitive non-coding regions...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Delgado M,Caperta A,Ribeiro T,Viegas W,Jones RN,Morais-Cecílio L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear organization of spermatocytes in meiotic prophase I is primarily determined by the synaptic organization of the bivalents that are bound by their telomeres to the nuclear envelope and described as arc-shaped trajectories through the 3D nuclear space. However, over this basic meiotic organization, a spermat...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Berrios S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli Bleeker, is a marine protandrous hermaphrodite fish. A Dmrt1 cDNA was cloned and characterized and in order to study the process of sex change in this species, mRNA transcripts of Dmrt1 were monitored. Dmrt1 was specifically transcribed in testis and seminal vesicle in 2-year-old b...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： He CL,Du JL,Wu GC,Lee YH,Sun LT,Chang CF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geckos (Gekkota) are a highly diversified group of lizards with an exceptional diversity in sex-determining systems. Despite this intriguing documented variability, data on sex determination in many lineages is still scarce. Here, we document the previously overlooked heteromorphic ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes in the thick-t...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Pokorná M,Rens W,Rovatsos M,Kratochvíl L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal 6q deletions have a milder phenotype than middle and distal 6q deletions. We describe 2 patients with non-overlapping deletions of about 15 and 19 Mb, respectively, which subdivide the proximal 6q region into 2 parts. The aberrations were identified using karyotyping and analysed using mBAND and array CGH. Th...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Vlckova M,Trkova M,Zemanova Z,Hancarova M,Novotna D,Raskova D,Puchmajerova A,Drabova J,Zmitkova Z,Tan Y,Sedlacek Z

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus is an important model organism for the study of genome duplication in vertebrates. With the full genome sequence of diploid Xenopus tropicalis available, and that of allotetraploid X. laevis close to being finished, we will be able to expand our understanding of how duplicated genes have evolved. One of the ke...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Kwon T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of quantitative changes in genomic DNA, i.e. deletions and duplications or Copy Number Variants (CNVs), has recently gained considerable interest. First, detailed analysis of the human genome showed a surprising amount of CNVs, involving thousands of genes. Second, it was realised that the detection of C...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Aten E,White SJ,Kalf ME,Vossen RH,Thygesen HH,Ruivenkamp CA,Kriek M,Breuning MH,den Dunnen JT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the organization of mouse satellite 3 and 4 (MS3 and MS4) in comparison with major (MaSat) and minor (MiSat) DNA sequences, located in the centromeric and pericentromeric regions of mouse telocentric chromosomes by fiber-FISH. The centromeric region consists of a small block of MiSat and MS3 followed by a p...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Kuznetsova I,Podgornaya O,Ferguson-Smith MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetically dominant neurodegenerative condition caused by an unique mutation in the disease gene huntingtin. Although the Huntington protein (Htt) is ubiquitously expressed, expansion of the polyglutamine tract in Htt leads to the progressive loss of specific neuronal subpopulations in ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Sawa A,Tomoda T,Bae BI

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Congo African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus, PER) is an endemic species of Central Africa, valued for its intelligence and listed as vulnerable due to poaching and habitat destruction. Improved knowledge about the P. erithacus genome is needed to address key biological questions and conservation of this species...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Seibold-Torres C,Owens E,Chowdhary R,Ferguson-Smith MA,Tizard I,Raudsepp T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical mapping of 5S rDNA in 2 species of knifefishes, Gymnotuspantanal and G. paraguensis (Gymnotiformes), was performed using fluorescence in situ hybridization with a 5S rDNA probe. The 5S rDNA PCR product from the genomes of both species was also sequenced and aligned to determine non-transcribed spacer sequence...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： da Silva M,Matoso DA,Vicari MR,de Almeida MC,Margarido VP,Artoni RF

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a rare interstitial deletion of chromosomal band 2q33.2q33.3 is described. The clinical features resembled the 2q33.1 microdeletion syndrome (Glass syndrome), including mental retardation, facial dysmorphism, high-arched narrow palate, growth deficiency, and speech delay. The chromosomal aberration was ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Papoulidis I,Paspaliaris V,Papageorgiou E,Siomou E,Dagklis T,Sotiriou S,Thomaidis L,Manolakos E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to analyze the organization of repetitive DNAs in the amphibian genome, 7 microsatellite motifs and a 5S rDNA sequence were synthesized and mapped in the karyotypes of 5 Amolops species. The results revealed nonrandom distribution of the microsatellite repeats, usually in the heterochromatic regions, as ...

journal_title：Cytogenetic and genome research

authors： Liu Y,Song M,Luo W,Xia Y,Zeng X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00