Species-specific class I gene expansions formed the telomeric 1 mb of the mouse major histocompatibility complex.

abstract：:In an attempt to understand the origin of CpG islands (CGIs) in mammalian genomes, we have studied their location and structure according to the expression pattern of genes and to the G + C content of isochores in which they are embedded. We show that CGIs located over the transcription start site (named start CGIs) a...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Ponger L,Duret L,Mouchiroud D

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CLONEPICKER is a software pipeline that integrates sequence data with BAC clone fingerprints to dynamically select a minimal overlapping clone set covering the whole genome. In the Rat Genome Sequencing Project (RGSP), a hybrid strategy of "clone by clone" and "whole genome shotgun" approaches was used to maximize the...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Chen R,Sodergren E,Weinstock GM,Gibbs RA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random spontaneous genome rearrangements are difficult to detect in vivo, especially in postmitotic tissues. Using a lacZ-plasmid reporter mouse model, we have previously presented evidence for the accumulation of large genome rearrangements in various tissues, including postmitotic tissues, during aging. These rearra...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Dollé ME,Vijg J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome evolution is driven by a complex interplay of factors, including selection, recombination, and introgression. The regions determining sexual identity are particularly dynamic parts of eukaryotic genomes that are prone to molecular degeneration associated with suppressed recombination. In the fungus Neurospora t...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Corcoran P,Anderson JL,Jacobson DJ,Sun Y,Ni P,Lascoux M,Johannesson H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hi-C is a powerful technology for studying genome-wide chromatin interactions. However, current methods for assessing Hi-C data reproducibility can produce misleading results because they ignore spatial features in Hi-C data, such as domain structure and distance dependence. We present HiCRep, a framework for assessin...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Yang T,Zhang F,Yardımcı GG,Song F,Hardison RC,Noble WS,Yue F,Li Q

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy (FSHD), a muscular hereditary disease with a prevalence of 1 in 20,000, is caused by a partial deletion of a subtelomeric repeat array on chromosome 4q. Earlier, we demonstrated the existence in the vicinity of the D4Z4 repeat of a nuclear matrix attachment site, FR-MAR, efficient in no...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Petrov A,Allinne J,Pirozhkova I,Laoudj D,Lipinski M,Vassetzky YS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of the first plant genome was completed and published at the end of 2000. This spawned a series of large-scale projects aimed at discovering the functions of the 25,000+ genes identified in Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis). This review summarizes progress made in the past five years and speculates about...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Bevan M,Walsh S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomics data introduce a substantial computational burden as well as data privacy and ownership issues. Data sets generated by high-throughput sequencing platforms require immense amounts of computational resources to align to reference genomes and to call and annotate genomic variants. This problem is even more pron...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Ozercan HI,Ileri AM,Ayday E,Alkan C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of the phylogenetic relationships among microorganisms has long relied primarily on gene sequence information. Given that prokaryotic organisms often lack morphological characteristics amenable to phylogenetic analysis, prokaryotic phylogenies, in particular, are often based on sequence data. In this...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Deeds EJ,Hennessey H,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 25 loci have been linked to type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse, but identification of the underlying genes remains challenging. We describe here the positional cloning of a T1D susceptibility locus, Idd11, located on mouse chromosome 4. Sequence analysis of a series of congenic NOD mo...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Tan IK,Mackin L,Wang N,Papenfuss AT,Elso CM,Ashton MP,Quirk F,Phipson B,Bahlo M,Speed TP,Smyth GK,Morahan G,Brodnicki TC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although changes in chromatin are integral to transcriptional reprogramming during cellular differentiation, it is currently unclear how chromatin modifications are targeted to specific loci. To systematically identify transcription factors (TFs) that can direct chromatin changes during cell fate decisions, we model t...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Arnold P,Schöler A,Pachkov M,Balwierz PJ,Jørgensen H,Stadler MB,van Nimwegen E,Schübeler D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that most modern mammalian lineages arose from a series of rapid speciation events near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. It is shown that such a phylogeny makes the common ancestral genome sequence an ideal target for reconstruction. Simulations suggest that with methods currently available, we can exp...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Blanchette M,Green ED,Miller W,Haussler D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of cis-regulatory motifs involved in transcriptional control have been identified, but the regulatory context and biological processes in which many of them function are unknown. Here, we computationally identify the sets of human core promoters targeted by motifs, and systematically characterize their ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Sinha S,Adler AS,Field Y,Chang HY,Segal E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome-specific cDNA libraries are new tools for the isolation of genes from specific genomic regions. We have used two YACs than span the approximately 2-Mb cri-du-chat critical region (CDCCR) of chromosome 5p to directly screen a chromosome 5-specific (CH5SP) fetal brain cDNA library. To compare this library wit...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Simmons AD,Overhauser J,Lovett M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcript leaders (TLs) can have profound effects on mRNA translation and stability. To map TL boundaries genome-wide, we developed TL-sequencing (TL-seq), a technique combining enzymatic capture of m(7)G-capped mRNA 5' ends with high-throughput sequencing. TL-seq identified mRNA start sites for the majority of yeast...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Arribere JA,Gilbert WV

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian X and Y Chromosomes evolved from an ordinary autosomal pair. Genetic decay of the Y led to X Chromosome inactivation (XCI) in females, but some Y-linked genes were retained during the course of sex chromosome evolution, and many X-linked genes did not become subject to XCI. We reconstructed gene-by-gene dosa...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Naqvi S,Bellott DW,Lin KS,Page DC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small set of core transcription factors (TFs) dominates control of the gene expression program in embryonic stem cells and other well-studied cellular models. These core TFs collectively regulate their own gene expression, thus forming an interconnected auto-regulatory loop that can be considered the core transcript...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Saint-André V,Federation AJ,Lin CY,Abraham BJ,Reddy J,Lee TI,Bradner JE,Young RA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a conserved role in regulating gene expression, chromatin dynamics, and cell differentiation. They serve as a platform for RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated heterochromatin formation or DNA methylation in many eukaryotic organisms. We found in Schizosaccharomyces pombe that heterochro...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Brönner C,Salvi L,Zocco M,Ugolini I,Halic M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical cues influence a range of behavioral responses in rodents. The involvement of protein odorants and odorant receptors in mediating reproductive behavior, foraging, and predator avoidance suggests that their genes may have been subject to adaptive evolution. We have estimated the consequences of selection on ro...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Emes RD,Beatson SA,Ponting CP,Goodstadt L

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome is estimated to contain 23,000 to 33,000 retropseudogenes. To study the properties of genes giving rise to these retroelements, we compared the structure and expression of genes with or without known retropseudogenes. Four main features have emerged from the analysis of 181 genes associated to retrops...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Gonçalves I,Duret L,Mouchiroud D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbance of DNA methylation leading to aberrant gene expression has been implicated in the etiology of many diseases. Whereas variation at the genetic level has been studied extensively, less is known about the extent and function of epigenetic variation. To explore variation and heritability of DNA methylation, we...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Gervin K,Hammerø M,Akselsen HE,Moe R,Nygård H,Brandt I,Gjessing HK,Harris JR,Undlien DE,Lyle R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing is a major mechanism for gene product regulation in many multicellular organisms. By using different exon combinations, some coding regions can encode amino acids in multiple reading frames in different transcripts. Here we performed a systematic search through a set of high-quality human transcri...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Liang H,Landweber LF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked Mental Retardation (XLMR) occurs in 1 in 600 males and is highly genetically heterogeneous. We used a novel human X chromosome cDNA microarray (XCA) to survey the expression profile of X-linked genes in lymphoblasts of XLMR males. Genes with altered expression verified by Northern blot and/or quantitative PCR...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Zhang L,Jie C,Obie C,Abidi F,Schwartz CE,Stevenson RE,Valle D,Wang T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) proliferate within the genome of their host, which responds by silencing them epigenetically. Much is known about the mechanisms of silencing in plants, particularly the role of siRNAs in guiding DNA methylation. In contrast, little is known about siRNA targeting patterns along the length o...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Bousios A,Diez CM,Takuno S,Bystry V,Darzentas N,Gaut BS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human AIRE gene (hAIRE) result in the development of an autoimmune disease named APECED (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy; OMIM 240300). Previously, we have cloned hAIRE and shown that it codes for a putative transcription-associated factor. Here we report the cloning and...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Blechschmidt K,Schweiger M,Wertz K,Poulson R,Christensen HM,Rosenthal A,Lehrach H,Yaspo ML

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellites--tandem repeats of short DNA motifs--are abundant in the human genome and have high mutation rates. While microsatellite instability is implicated in numerous genetic diseases, the molecular processes involved in their emergence and disappearance are still not well understood. Microsatellites are hypot...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Kelkar YD,Eckert KA,Chiaromonte F,Makova KD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that sequencing error can bias estimation of evolutionary or population genetic parameters. This problem is more prominent in deep resequencing studies because of their large sample size n, and a higher probability of error at each nucleotide site. We propose a new method based on the composite likelihood ...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Liu X,Fu YX,Maxwell TJ,Boerwinkle E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of diversity vary across the human genome. This variation is caused by two forces: differences in mutation rates and the differential impact of natural selection. Pertinent to the question of the relative importance of these two forces is the observation that both diversity within species and interspecies diver...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Hellmann I,Prüfer K,Ji H,Zody MC,Pääbo S,Ptak SE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of long-term evolutionary conservation of microRNA (miRNA) target sites appears to contradict many analyses of their functions. Several hypotheses have been offered, but an attractive one-that the conservation may be a function of taxonomic hierarchy (vertebrates, mammals, primates, etc.)-has rarely been disc...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Xu J,Zhang R,Shen Y,Liu G,Lu X,Wu CI

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UEV proteins are enzymatically inactive variants of the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes that regulate noncanonical elongation of ubiquitin chains. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, UEV is part of the RAD6-mediated error-free DNA repair pathway. In mammalian cells, UEV proteins can modulate c-FOS transcription and the G2-M...

journal_title：Genome research

authors： Thomson TM,Lozano JJ,Loukili N,Carrió R,Serras F,Cormand B,Valeri M,Díaz VM,Abril J,Burset M,Merino J,Macaya A,Corominas M,Guigó R

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00