1. The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 14
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Roland Heilig, Ralph Eckenberg, Jean-Louis Petit, Núria Fonknechten, Corinne Da Silva, Laurence Cattolico, Michaël Levy, Valérie Barbe, Véronique de Berardinis, Abel Ureta-Vidal, Eric Pelletier, Virginie Vico, Véronique Anthouard, Lee Rowen, Anup Madan, Shizhen Qin, Hui Sun, Hui Du, Kymberlie Pepin, François Artiguenave, Catherine Robert, Corinne Cruaud, Thomas Brüls, Olivier Jaillon, Lucie Friedlander, Gaelle Samson, Philippe Brottier, Susan Cure, Béatrice Ségurens, Franck Anière, Sylvie Samain, Hervé Crespeau, Nissa Abbasi, Nathalie Aiach, Didier Boscus, Rachel Dickhoff, Monica Dors, Ivan Dubois, Cynthia Friedman, Michel Gouyvenoux, Rose James, Anuradha Madan, Barbara Mairey–Estrada, Sophie Mangenot, Nathalie Martins, Manuela Ménard, Sophie Oztas, Amber Ratcliffe, Tristan Shaffer, Barbara Trask, Benoit Vacherie, Chadia Bellemere, Caroline Belser, Marielle Besnard-Gonnet, Delphine Bartol–Mavel, Magali Boutard, Stéphanie Briez-Silla, Stephane Combette, Virginie Dufossé-Laurent, Carolyne Ferron, Christophe Lechaplais, Claudine Louesse, Delphine Muselet, Ghislaine Magdelenat, Emilie Pateau, Emmanuelle Petit, Peggy Sirvain-Trukniewicz, Arnaud Trybou, Nathalie Vega-Czarny, Elodie Bataille, Elodie Bluet, Isabelle Bordelais, Maria Dubois, Corinne Dumont, Thomas Guérin, Sébastien Haffray, Rachid Hammadi, Jacqueline Muanga, Virginie Pellouin, Dominique Robert, Edith Wunderle, Gilbert Gauguet, Alice Roy, Laurent Sainte-Marthe, Jean Verdier, Claude Verdier-Discala, LaDeana Hillier, Lucinda Fulton, John McPherson, Fumihiko Matsuda, Richard Wilson, Claude Scarpelli, Gábor Gyapay, Patrick Wincker, William Saurin, Francis Quétier, Robert Waterston, Leroy Hood, and Jean Weissenbach
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14 ,Base Composition ,Multidisciplinary ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Immunity ,Reproducibility of Results ,Genomics ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Physical Chromosome Mapping ,DNA, Mitochondrial ,DNA, Ribosomal ,Synteny ,Mice ,Open Reading Frames ,Genes ,Animals ,Humans ,Chromosomes, Artificial ,CpG Islands ,5' Untranslated Regions ,Pseudogenes ,Microsatellite Repeats - Abstract
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.
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- 2003
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