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1. Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Shares Features of Both Pathogenic and Non-pathogenic Lentiviral Infections.

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Edward J D Greenwood, Fabian Schmidt, Ivanela Kondova, Henk Niphuis, Vida L Hodara, Leah Clissold, Kirsten McLay, Bernadette Guerra, Sharon Redrobe, Luis D Giavedoni, Robert E Lanford, Krishna K Murthy, François Rouet, and Jonathan L Heeney

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Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
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The virus-host relationship in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infected chimpanzees is thought to be different from that found in other SIV infected African primates. However, studies of captive SIVcpz infected chimpanzees are limited. Previously, the natural SIVcpz infection of one chimpanzee, and the experimental infection of six chimpanzees was reported, with limited follow-up. Here, we present a long-term study of these seven animals, with a retrospective re-examination of the early stages of infection. The only clinical signs consistent with AIDS or AIDS associated disease was thrombocytopenia in two cases, associated with the development of anti-platelet antibodies. However, compared to uninfected and HIV-1 infected animals, SIVcpz infected animals had significantly lower levels of peripheral blood CD4+ T-cells. Despite this, levels of T-cell activation in chronic infection were not significantly elevated. In addition, while plasma levels of β2 microglobulin, neopterin and soluble TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand (sTRAIL) were elevated in acute infection, these markers returned to near-normal levels in chronic infection, reminiscent of immune activation patterns in 'natural host' species. Furthermore, plasma soluble CD14 was not elevated in chronic infection. However, examination of the secondary lymphoid environment revealed persistent changes to the lymphoid structure, including follicular hyperplasia in SIVcpz infected animals. In addition, both SIV and HIV-1 infected chimpanzees showed increased levels of deposition of collagen and increased levels of Mx1 expression in the T-cell zones of the lymph node. The outcome of SIVcpz infection of captive chimpanzees therefore shares features of both non-pathogenic and pathogenic lentivirus infections.

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2015
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2. An evaluation of different target enrichment methods in pooled sequencing designs for complex disease association studies.

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Aaron G Day-Williams, Kirsten McLay, Eleanor Drury, Sarah Edkins, Alison J Coffey, Aarno Palotie, and Eleftheria Zeggini

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Medicine, Science
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Pooled sequencing can be a cost-effective approach to disease variant discovery, but its applicability in association studies remains unclear. We compare sequence enrichment methods coupled to next-generation sequencing in non-indexed pools of 1, 2, 10, 20 and 50 individuals and assess their ability to discover variants and to estimate their allele frequencies. We find that pooled resequencing is most usefully applied as a variant discovery tool due to limitations in estimating allele frequency with high enough accuracy for association studies, and that in-solution hybrid-capture performs best among the enrichment methods examined regardless of pool size.

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2011
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3. High- or low-dose preoperative ipilimumab plus nivolumab in stage III urothelial cancer: the phase 1B NABUCCO trial

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Jeroen van Dorp, Christodoulos Pipinikas, Britt B. M. Suelmann, Niven Mehra, Nick van Dijk, Giovanni Marsico, Maurits L. van Montfoort, Sophie Hackinger, Linde M. Braaf, Tauanne Amarante, Charlaine van Steenis, Kirsten McLay, Antonios Daletzakis, Daan van den Broek, Maaike W. van de Kamp, Kees Hendricksen, Jeantine M. de Feijter, Thierry N. Boellaard, Richard P. Meijer, Toine G. van der Heijden, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Bas W. G. van Rhijn, Greg Jones, and Michiel S. van der Heijden

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All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 15], General Medicine, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Item does not contain fulltext Cohort 1 of the phase 1B NABUCCO trial showed high pathological complete response (pCR) rates with preoperative ipilimumab plus nivolumab in stage III urothelial cancer (UC). In cohort 2, the aim was dose adjustment to optimize responses. Additionally, we report secondary endpoints, including efficacy and tolerability, in cohort 2 and the association of presurgical absence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in urine and plasma with clinical outcome in both cohorts. Thirty patients received two cycles of either ipilimumab 3 mg kg(-1) plus nivolumab 1 mg kg(-1) (cohort 2A) or ipilimumab 1 mg kg(-1) plus nivolumab 3 mg kg(-1) (cohort 2B), both followed by nivolumab 3 mg kg(-1). We observed a pCR in six (43%) patients in cohort 2A and a pCR in one (7%) patient in cohort 2B. Absence of urinary ctDNA correlated with pCR in the bladder (ypT0Nx) but not with progression-free survival (PFS). Absence of plasma ctDNA correlated with pCR (odds ratio: 45.0; 95% confidence interval (CI): 4.9-416.5) and PFS (hazard ratio: 10.4; 95% CI: 2.9-37.5). Our data suggest that high-dose ipilimumab plus nivolumab is required in stage III UC and that absence of ctDNA in plasma can predict PFS. ClinicalTrials.gov registration: NCT03387761 .

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2023

4. Liquid BIOpsy for MiNimal RESidual DiSease Detection in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (LIONESS)—a personalised circulating tumour DNA analysis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

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Susanne Flach, Karen Howarth, Sophie Hackinger, Christodoulos Pipinikas, Pete Ellis, Kirsten McLay, Giovanni Marsico, Tim Forshew, Christoph Walz, Christoph A. Reichel, Olivier Gires, Martin Canis, and Philipp Baumeister

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Cancer Research, Neoplasm, Residual, Oncology, Head and Neck Neoplasms, Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, Biomarkers, Tumor, Liquid Biopsy, Humans, Prospective Studies, Circulating Tumor DNA
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Background Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remain a substantial burden to global health. Cell-free circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) is an emerging biomarker but has not been studied sufficiently in HNSCC. Methods We conducted a single-centre prospective cohort study to investigate ctDNA in patients with p16-negative HNSCC who received curative-intent primary surgical treatment. Whole-exome sequencing was performed on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumour tissue. We utilised RaDaRTM, a highly sensitive personalised assay using deep sequencing for tumour-specific variants, to analyse serial pre- and post-operative plasma samples for evidence of minimal residual disease and recurrence. Results In 17 patients analysed, personalised panels were designed to detect 34 to 52 somatic variants. Data show ctDNA detection in baseline samples taken prior to surgery in 17 of 17 patients. In post-surgery samples, ctDNA could be detected at levels as low as 0.0006% variant allele frequency. In all cases with clinical recurrence to date, ctDNA was detected prior to progression, with lead times ranging from 108 to 253 days. Conclusions This study illustrates the potential of ctDNA as a biomarker for detecting minimal residual disease and recurrence in HNSCC and demonstrates the feasibility of personalised ctDNA assays for the detection of disease prior to clinical recurrence.

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2022

6. Abstract 1273: Predicting pathological response after ipilimumab plus nivolumab in stage III urothelial cancer by liquid-biopsy assessment of plasma and urine ctDNA using the RaDaR assay

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Jeroen van Dorp, Christodoulos Pipinikas, Nick van Dijk, Greg Jones, Alberto Gil-Jimenez, Giovanni Marsico, Maurits L. van Montfoort, Sophie Hackinger, Linde Braaf, Kirsten McLay, Daan van den Broek, Bas W. Van Rhijn, Nitzan Rosenfeld, and Michiel S. van der Heijden

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Cancer Research, Oncology
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Patients (pts) with stage III (cT3-4aN0M0 or cT1-4aN1-3M0) urothelial cancer (UC) have a poor prognosis. In NABUCCO cohort 1, 24 stage III UC pts were treated with ipilimumab (ipi) plus nivolumab (nivo) followed by radical surgery (day 1: ipi 3 mg/kg; day 22: ipi 3 mg/kg + nivo 1 mg/kg; day 43: nivo 3 mg/kg). 14/24 (58%) of pts showed a pathological response (ypT0N0 or ypTisN0/ypTaN0). Currently, there are no good biomarkers to assess response before surgery, potentially leading to overtreatment and unnecessary surgical complications. Here, we investigated whether detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in plasma and urine by the RaDaR™ personalized liquid biopsy assay was associated with treatment response and outcomes. EDTA-plasma and urine supernatant were collected before start of treatment (day 1; “baseline”), before each subsequent treatment cycle (day 22 and 43) and before radical surgery. WES was performed on tumor FFPE and peripheral blood germline DNA to identify somatic variants for designing patient-specific, multiplex PCR-based NGS RaDaR™ panels. Plasma and urine ctDNA was analyzed using these panels to determine ctDNA detection and its estimated variant allele frequency (eVAF). Tissue somatic variants were detected in all patients, a median of 48 variants was used per RaDaR™ panel (range: 43-51). ctDNA was detected in 50/94 plasma samples (53%) and in 74/93 urine samples (80%). Detection levels were higher in urine with a median eVAF of 1.98% (range: 0.00057%-35.85%) vs. 0.049% (range: 0.00026%-18.94%) in plasma. ctDNA was detected in baseline plasma in 10/14 (71%) responding pts (median eVAF: 0.325%) and in 8/10 (80%) non-responders (median eVAF: 0.107%). Changes in ctDNA levels reflected clinical responses. After treatment with ipi plus nivo, ctDNA was undetectable in 13/14 (93%) responding pts, and in only 4/10 (40%) of non-responders (p=0.0088). Of the 17 pts with undetectable ctDNA before surgery, 13 (76%) had a pathological response and 16/17 (94%) pts remained recurrence-free after a median follow-up of 34 months. Urine ctDNA was detected at baseline in 12/14 (86%) responding pts (median eVAF: 9.634%) and in 8/10 (80%) non-responders (median eVAF: 2%). After treatment with ipi plus nivo, urine ctDNA was detected in 8/14 (57%) responding pts (median eVAF: 0.87%), and in 8/10 (80%) non-responders (median eVAF: 0.162%). No association was observed between urine ctDNA detection and response (p=0.39). Detection of plasma ctDNA by RaDaR™ after neoadjuvant treatment was associated with pathological response and clinical outcome. In contrast, ctDNA detection in urine was not associated with outcomes. Absence of plasma ctDNA pre-surgery may predict complete response to ipi plus nivo at surgery and may be helpful in guiding clinical decisions in stage III UC, in particular to select pts for bladder-sparing strategies. Citation Format: Jeroen van Dorp, Christodoulos Pipinikas, Nick van Dijk, Greg Jones, Alberto Gil-Jimenez, Giovanni Marsico, Maurits L. van Montfoort, Sophie Hackinger, Linde Braaf, Kirsten McLay, Daan van den Broek, Bas W. Van Rhijn, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Michiel S. van der Heijden. Predicting pathological response after ipilimumab plus nivolumab in stage III urothelial cancer by liquid-biopsy assessment of plasma and urine ctDNA using the RaDaR assay [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 1273.

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2022

7. Abstract 553: Personalized circulating tumor DNA analysis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Preliminary results of the Liquid BIOpsy for MiNimal RESidual DiSease Detection in Head and NeckSquamous Cell Carcinoma (LIONESS) study

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Christoph Walz, Giovanni Marsico, Karen Howarth, Susanne Flach, Philipp Baumeister, Martin Canis, Olivier Gires, Sophie Hackinger, Christodoulos Pipinikas, and Kirsten McLay

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Oncology, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Cancer, medicine.disease, Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma, Minimal residual disease, Internal medicine, Cohort, medicine, Biomarker (medicine), Liquid biopsy, business, Exome sequencing, Cohort study
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Introduction Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remains a substantial burden to global health. Despite evolving therapies, 5-year survival is less than 50% and unlike other cancers, reliable biomarkers to monitor treatment response do not exist. Cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is an emerging biomarker but has not yet been studied sufficiently for HNSCC. The detection of ctDNA as a marker of minimal residual disease following curative-intent treatment holds promise for identifying patients at an increased risk of relapse, who may benefit from adjuvant radio(chemo)therapy or facilitate close monitoring with repeat resection if needed. Methods We conducted a single-center prospective experimental evidence-generating cohort study to assess ctDNA in 30 patients with p16-negative HNSCC (stages I-IVB) who received primary surgical treatment with curative intent at our institution. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor tissue to a median depth of 250x. For each patient, we selected up to 48 somatic variants for personalized ctDNA assay design. We used the RaDaRTM assay to analyze serial pre- and post-operative plasma samples (range 2-6) for evidence of minimal residual disease or recurrence. Results In a subset of patients analyzed to evaluate the performance of RaDaR, personalized panels were designed with between 34 and 48 somatic variants (median 48). Preliminary data shows 100% ctDNA detection in baseline samples taken prior to surgery at tumor fractions ranging from 312 ppm (equivalent to 0.03% AF) to 7579 ppm (equivalent to 0.76% AF). In post-surgery samples, ctDNA could be detected at levels as low as 26 ppm (equivalent to 0.0026% AF). Analysis of follow-up plasma samples will be presented along with data from the full patient cohort. Conclusions This study illustrates the potential of ctDNA as a biomarker in HNSCC and demonstrates the feasibility of personalized ctDNA assays for the detection of minimal residual disease post-treatment and for monitoring for early detection of relapse. Citation Format: Susanne Flach, Karen Howarth, Sophie Hackinger, Christodoulos Pipinikas, Kirsten McLay, Giovanni Marsico, Christoph Walz, Olivier Gires, Martin Canis, Philipp Baumeister. Personalized circulating tumor DNA analysis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Preliminary results of the Liquid BIOpsy for MiNimal RESidual DiSease Detection in Head and NeckSquamous Cell Carcinoma (LIONESS) study [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021; 2021 Apr 10-15 and May 17-21. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(13_Suppl):Abstract nr 553.

Published
2021

8. Dispersal of NK homeobox gene clusters in amphioxus and humans

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Christine Bird, Kirsten McLay, Graham Luke, L. Filipe C. Castro, Alan Coulson, and Peter W. H. Holland

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Genetics, Multidisciplinary, animal structures, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, DLX3, Molecular Sequence Data, Genes, Homeobox, Homeobox A1, ParaHox, Biological Sciences, Biology, HNF1B, Homeobox protein Nkx-2.5, Chordata, Nonvertebrate, Multigene Family, Gene cluster, Animals, Humans, Homeobox, Amino Acid Sequence, Cloning, Molecular, Hox gene, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
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The Drosophila melanogaster genome has six physically clustered NK-related homeobox genes in just 180 kb. Here we show that the NK homeobox gene cluster was an ancient feature of bilaterian animal genomes, but has been secondarily split in chordate ancestry. The NK homeobox gene clusters of amphioxus and vertebrates are each split and dispersed at two equivalent intergenic positions. From the ancestral NK gene cluster, only the Tlx–Lbx and NK3–NK4 linkages have been retained in chordates. This evolutionary pattern is in marked contrast to the Hox and ParaHox gene clusters, which are compact in amphioxus and vertebrates, but have been disrupted in Drosophila .

Published
2016

9. Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

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Morris J. Brown, Sanjeev S. Bhaskar, Alison J. Coffey, Suzanne Rafelt, Kirsten McLay, John Bowes, Francesca Bredin, Alastair Compston, John C. Mansfield, Elaine R. Nimmo, Kate Downes, Peter McGuffin, Neil Walker, Anthony J. Balmforth, Philip Howard, Detelina Grozeva, Helen Stevens, Kate L. Lee, Richard D. Pearson, Gerome Breen, T. Daniel Andrews, Sheila Seal, Anna Elliot, Beverley M. Shields, Andrew T. Hattersley, Sarah Edkins, Ann E. Morgan, Gil McVean, Julian Maller, Millicent A. Stone, Adam Auton, Carol Scott, Michael R. Stratton, Matthew Woodburn, John R. B. Perry, Michael Conlon O'Donovan, Nigel P. Carter, Vincent Plagnol, Stephen Sawcer, Sarah Hines, Mahim Jain, Allan H. Young, Steve Eyre, Elilan Somaskantharajah, Alexander J. Mentzer, Niall Cardin, Eleanor Howard, Inês Barroso, Stephen C. L. Gough, Toby Johnson, Deborah P M Symmons, Christopher Holmes, David St Clair, Patricia B. Munroe, Sue Shaw-Hawkins, Emma Gray, Stephen W. Scherer, Tariq Ahmad, Jaswinder Bull, Debbie Hughes, E. Russell, Timothy M. Frayling, Chris Clee, I. Nicol Ferrier, James Lee, Dominic P. Kwiatkowski, Husam Hebaishi, Anne Hinks, Simon Myers, Gareth Evans, Eleftheria Zeggini, Katarina Spanova, Michael L. Mimmack, David M. Reid, Amanda J. Bennett, Richard T. Scott, Armand Valsesia, Derek P. Jewell, Andrew P. Morris, Peter Donnelly, Mark J. Caulfield, Jake K. Byrnes, Lars Feuk, Pile Harrison, Anna F. Dominiczak, Cathryn Edwards, Andrew Dunham, Dalila Pinto, Inga Prokopenko, Ian Jones, Craig Mowat, Nigel R. Ovington, Willem H. Ouwehand, Edward Flynn, Jason D. Cooper, Louise V. Wain, Alistair Forbes, Bernadette Ebbs, Jennifer Jolley, Jonathan Marchini, Peter S. Braund, Ifejinelo Onyiah, Mark Walker, Adrian V. S. Hill, Cordelia Langford, Anne M. Phillips, George Kirov, David P. Strachan, Oliver S. Burren, Martin D. Tobin, Anthony G. Wilson, Ian N. Bruce, Hana Lango-Allen, Alistair S. Hall, Natalie J. Prescott, Charles Lee, Clare Turnbull, Cecilia M. Lindgren, John D. Isaacs, Jack Satsangi, Liz Forty, John M. C. Connell, Neelam Hassanali, Hazel E. Drummond, Matthew A. Brown, John A. Todd, Joanna M. M. Howson, Jennifer G. Sambrook, Graham A. Hitman, Michael N. Weedon, Christopher Yau, Abiodun Onipinla, Kathy Stirrups, Chris Tyler-Smith, Darshna Dudakia, G. Mark Lathrop, Katherine Gordon-Smith, Nazneen Rahman, Christopher J. Groves, William G. Newman, Kirstie Parnell, Stephen G. Ball, Tomas W Fitzgerald, Paul Gilbert, Kevin Lewis, Charlie W. Lees, Polly Gibbs, Rachel M. Freathy, Aarno Palotie, Katarzyna Blaszczyk, Matthew E. Hurles, Jonathan Stephens, Lynne J. Hocking, Nicholas A. Watkins, Christopher G. Mathew, Helen Schuilenburg, David Pernet, Eleni Giannoulatou, Kimmo Palin, Nigel W. Rayner, Donald F. Conrad, Susan M. Ring, John R. Thompson, Debbie J. Smyth, Wendy L. McArdle, B. Paul Wordsworth, David M. Evans, Dunecan Massey, Naomi Hammond, Diana Eccles, Panos Deloukas, Sian Caesar, Chris P. Barnes, Sophia Steer, Anthony Attwood, Chris Wallace, Richard Redon, Paul Burton, Anne Barton, Marcus Pembrey, Michael John Owen, Jane Worthington, Mary E. Travers, Jeremy D. Sanderson, Meeta Maisuria-Armer, Elaine K. Green, Michael A. Quail, Oliver J. Brand, Anne Farmer, Matthew J. Simmonds, Neil Robertson, Nicholas John Craddock, Zhan Su, Jan Aerts, Martin Farrall, Hazel Arbury, Damjan Vukcevic, Paul Emery, Omer Gokumen, A Hall, Wendy Thomson, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Margaret Warren-Perry, Rhian Gwilliam, Sarah E. Hunt, Samuel Robson, Paul Martin, Audrey Duncanson, Anthony Renwick, John Webster, Lisa Jones, Mark I. McCarthy, Nilesh J. Samani, Matthew Hardy, Miles Parkes, John Burton, Jayne A. Franklyn, Institut de Génomique d'Evry (IG), Université Paris-Saclay-Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Department of Statistics [Oxford], University of Oxford, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [Oxford], The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, University of Oxford [Oxford], and Medical Research Council (MRC)

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endocrine system diseases, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Genome-wide association study, Pilot Projects, CCL3L1, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Diabetes mellitus genetics, 0302 clinical medicine, Crohn Disease, Gene Frequency, DUPLICATIONS, SCHIZOPHRENIA, Disease, Copy-number variation, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, PSORIASIS, HERITABILITY, LARGE-SCALE, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Quality Control, DNA Copy Number Variations, General Science & Technology, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, COPY-NUMBER VARIATION, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, MD Multidisciplinary, mental disorders, Genetic predisposition, Diabetes Mellitus, SNP, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele frequency, POLYMORPHISMS, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Science & Technology, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES, DELETION, C431 Medical Genetics, Case-Control Studies, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Copy number variants (CNVs) account for a major proportion of human genetic polymorphism and have been predicted to have an important role in genetic susceptibility to common disease. To address this we undertook a large, direct genome-wide study of association between CNVs and eight common human diseases. Using a purpose-designed array we typed 19,000 individuals into distinct copy-number classes at 3,432 polymorphic CNVs, including an estimated 50% of all common CNVs larger than 500 base pairs. We identified several biological artefacts that lead to false-positive associations, including systematic CNV differences between DNAs derived from blood and cell lines. Association testing and follow-up replication analyses confirmed three loci where CNVs were associated with diseaseIRGM for Crohns disease, HLA for Crohns disease, rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, and TSPAN8 for type 2 diabetesalthough in each case the locus had previously been identified in single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based studies, reflecting our observation that most common CNVs that are well-typed on our array are well tagged by SNPs and so have been indirectly explored through SNP studies. We conclude that common CNVs that can be typed on existing platforms are unlikely to contribute greatly to the genetic basis of common human diseases. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.

Published
2016

10. Architectures of somatic genomic rearrangement in human cancer amplicons at sequence-level resolution

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Lucy Matthews, Michael A. Quail, Christopher Greenman, Andrew Menzies, Peter J. Campbell, Paul A.W. Edwards, Jessica C.M. Pole, Richard Wooster, Michael R. Stratton, P. Andrew Futreal, Thomas Santarius, Adam Butler, Sarah Edkins, Jane Rogers, Kirsten McLay, Sheila Taylor, Erin Pleasance, Bob Plumb, Janet Perry, and Graham R. Bignell

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Male, Cancer genome sequencing, Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial, Letter, DNA Repair, DNA repair, Gene Dosage, Biology, Genome, Cell Line, Tumor, Neoplasms, Gene duplication, Genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Humans, Base Pairing, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Genetics (clinical), Chromosome Aberrations, Gene Rearrangement, Recombination, Genetic, Genome, Human, Spectral Karyotyping, Genetic Variation, DNA, Neoplasm, Gene rearrangement, Nucleic acid amplification technique, Middle Aged, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Female, Human genome, Chromosome breakage, Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques, DNA Damage
Abstract

For decades, cytogenetic studies have demonstrated that somatically acquired structural rearrangements of the genome are a common feature of most classes of human cancer. However, the characteristics of these rearrangements at sequence-level resolution have thus far been subject to very limited description. One process that is dependent upon somatic genome rearrangement is gene amplification, a mechanism often exploited by cancer cells to increase copy number and hence expression of dominantly acting cancer genes. The mechanisms underlying gene amplification are complex but must involve chromosome breakage and rejoining. We sequenced 133 different genomic rearrangements identified within four cancer amplicons involving the frequently amplified cancer genes MYC, MYCN, and ERBB2. The observed architectures of rearrangement were diverse and highly distinctive, with evidence for sister chromatid breakage–fusion–bridge cycles, formation and reinsertion of double minutes, and the presence of bizarre clusters of small genomic fragments. There were characteristic features of sequences at the breakage–fusion junctions, indicating roles for nonhomologous end joining and homologous recombination-mediated repair mechanisms together with nontemplated DNA synthesis. Evidence was also found for sequence-dependent variation in susceptibility of the genome to somatic rearrangement. The results therefore provide insights into the DNA breakage and repair processes operative in somatic genome rearrangement and illustrate how the evolutionary histories of individual cancers can be reconstructed from large-scale cancer genome sequencing.

Published
2007

11. The Genomic and Phenotypic Diversity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

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Francesc Xavier Marsellach, Bartlomiej Tomiczek, Jared T. Simpson, Tobias Mourier, Francois Balloux, Kirsten McLay, Jürg Bähler, Sophie R. Atkinson, Daniel C. Jeffares, Theodora C. Sideri, Charalampos Rallis, Laurent van Trigt, Nikolas Maniatis, Melanie Febrer, Zamin Iqbal, Josephine E. E. U. Hellberg, Adrien Rieux, Richard Durbin, Tammy M. K. Cheng, William Brown, Rodrigo Pracana, Malte Thodberg, Anatole Chessel, Doug Speed, Leanne Bischof, Martin Převorovský, David J. Balding, Michael Mülleder, Danny A. Bitton, Markus Ralser, Rafael E. Carazo Salas, Brendan D. O'Fallon, Jacqueline Hayles, Sendu Bala, Nizar Drou, Linda Jeffery, Winston Lau, Jonathan L.D. Lawson, Garrett Hellenthal, Thomas M. Keane, Juan Juan Li, and Sandra Codlin

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Genetics, Genome evolution, Genetic diversity, biology, Genotype, Population genetics, Genetic Variation, Genomics, biology.organism_classification, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Phenotype, Genetic variation, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Schizosaccharomyces, Humans, Genome, Fungal, Genetic association, Genome-Wide Association Study
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Natural variation within species reveals aspects of genome evolution and function. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an important model for eukaryotic biology, but researchers typically use one standard laboratory strain. To extend the usefulness of this model, we surveyed the genomic and phenotypic variation in 161 natural isolates. We sequenced the genomes of all strains, finding moderate genetic diversity (π = 3 × 10(-3) substitutions/site) and weak global population structure. We estimate that dispersal of S. pombe began during human antiquity (∼340 BCE), and ancestors of these strains reached the Americas at ∼1623 CE. We quantified 74 traits, finding substantial heritable phenotypic diversity. We conducted 223 genome-wide association studies, with 89 traits showing at least one association. The most significant variant for each trait explained 22% of the phenotypic variance on average, with indels having larger effects than SNPs. This analysis represents a rich resource to examine genotype-phenotype relationships in a tractable model.

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2015

12. Genome-guided investigation of plant natural product biosynthesis

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Jason Cepela, Bernardo J. Clavijo, Carol Robin Buell, Brieanne Vaillancourt, Franziska Kellner, Jeongwoon Kim, John P. Hamilton, Kirsten McLay, Leah Clissold, Sarah E. O'Connor, Kevin L. Childs, Burkhard Steuernagel, and Marc Habermann

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Whole genome sequencing, Genetics, Biological Products, Strictosidine synthase, biology, Catharanthus, Sequence assembly, Context (language use), Cell Biology, Plant Science, Catharanthus roseus, biology.organism_classification, Vinblastine, Genome, DNA sequencing, Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, biology.protein, Gene, Genome, Plant
Abstract

The medicinal plant Madagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don, produces hundreds of biologically active monoterpene-derived indole alkaloid (MIA) metabolites and is the sole source of the potent, expensive anti-cancer compounds vinblastine and vincristine. Access to a genome sequence would enable insights into the biochemistry, control, and evolution of genes responsible for MIA biosynthesis. However, generation of a near-complete, scaffolded genome is prohibitive to small research communities due to the expense, time, and expertise required. In this study, we generated a genome assembly for C.roseus that provides a near-comprehensive representation of the genic space that revealed the genomic context of key points within the MIA biosynthetic pathway including physically clustered genes, tandem gene duplication, expression sub-functionalization, and putative neo-functionalization. The genome sequence also facilitated high resolution co-expression analyses that revealed three distinct clusters of co-expression within the components of the MIA pathway. Coordinated biosynthesis of precursors and intermediates throughout the pathway appear to be a feature of vinblastine/vincristine biosynthesis. The C.roseus genome also revealed localization of enzyme-rich genic regions and transporters near known biosynthetic enzymes, highlighting how even a draft genome sequence can empower the study of high-value specialized metabolites. Significance Statement It is now possible to generate within a single research lab a plant genome sequence that provides a near complete representation of genic regions: here, we report on the genome assembly of the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus, a producer of many specialized metabolites, including several anti-cancer compounds. We show how the draft genome sequence can facilitate identification, discovery, and an improved understanding of the genetic repertoire involved in specialized secondary metabolism.

Published
2015

13. A haplotype map of the human genome

Author

Mark Leppert, Aravinda Chakravarti, Charmaine D.M. Royal, Sarah S. Murray, Renzong Qiu, Panos Deloukas, Renwu Wang, David A. Hinds, Barbara E. Stranger, Xiaoli Tang, Huanming Yang, John W. Belmont, Nigel P. Carter, Huy Nguyen, William Mak, Kazuto Kato, Shiran Pasternak, Chaohua Li, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Lon R. Cardon, Vincent Ferretti, Atsushi Nagashima, Peter E. Chen, Stephen F. Schaffner, Hongbo Fu, Zhu Chen, Siqi Liu, John Burton, Paul Hardenbol, Gudmundur A. Thorisson, Yusuke Nakamura, Mark Griffiths, Imtiaz Yakub, Eiko Suda, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Carl S. Kashuk, Qingrun Zhang, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Karen Kennedy, Sarah E. Hunt, Yi Wang, Norio Niikawa, Ichiro Matsuda, Lynn F. Zacharia, Lalitha Krishnan, Zhen Wang, Stéphanie Roumy, C M Clee, David J. Cutler, Albert V. Smith, Lincoln Stein, Simon Myers, Jane Peterson, Jun Zhou, Yozo Ohnishi, Weihua Guan, Matthew Stephens, Xiaoyan Xiong, Julian Maller, Houcan Zhang, Pui-Yan Kwok, Mark S. Guyer, Liuda Ziaugra, Jonathan Witonsky, Matthew C. Jones, Stacey Gabriel, You-Qiang Song, Daochang An, Haifeng Wang, Gilean McVean, Lawrence M. Sung, Zhijian Yao, Yan Shen, Yangfan Liu, George M. Weinstock, Ludmila Pawlikowska, Erica Sodergren, Mark T. Ross, Andrew Boudreau, Toshihiro Tanaka, Thomas D. Willis, Weitao Hu, Kelly A. Frazer, Li Jin, Robert W. Plumb, Paul I.W. de Bakker, Hongbin Zhao, Wei Lin, Sarah Sims, Richard A. Gibbs, Maura Faggart, Michael Feolo, Dennis G. Ballinger, Xun Chu, Lucinda Fulton, Marcos Delgado, Ellen Winchester, Wei Huang, Fuli Yu, Christianne R. Bird, Shaun Purcell, Jessica Roy, Dongmei Cai, Launa M. Galver, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Gao Yang, Takashi Morizono, Rachel Barry, Kirsten McLay, Daryl J. Thomas, Steve McCarroll, Jonathan Marchini, Daniel J. Richter, Andy Peiffer, Patricia Taillon-Miller, Richard K. Wilson, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui, Jian-Bing Fan, Lisa D. Brooks, Laura L. Stuve, Paul L'Archevêque, David M. Evans, Clémentine Sallée, Peter Donnelly, Hong Xue, Hui Zhao, Charles N. Rotimi, Jean E. McEwen, J. Tze Fei Wong, Hao Pan, Alastair Kent, Brendan Blumenstiel, Qing Li, Weiwei Sun, L. Kang, Colin Freeman, John Stewart, Chibuzor Nkwodimmah, Morris W. Foster, Don Powell, Leonardo Bottolo, Raymond D. Miller, Stephen T. Sherry, Francis S. Collins, Donna M. Muzny, Jun Yu, Ike Ajayi, Hua Han, Pardis C. Sabeti, Hongguang Wang, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Guy Bellemare, Zhaohui S. Qin, H. B. Hu, Jane Rogers, Thomas J. Hudson, Mark J. Daly, Andrew P. Morris, Supriya Gupta, Ming Xiao, Patrick Varilly, Nick Patterson, Akihiro Sekine, Chris C. A. Spencer, Jonathan Morrison, Missy Dixon, Paul K.H. Tam, Jian Wang, Matthew Defelice, Susana Eyheramendy, Michael Shi, Yungang He, Ellen Wright Clayton, Richa Saxena, Heather M. Munro, Arthur L. Holden, Yayun Shen, Christine P. Bird, Bruce W. Birren, Itsik Pe'er, David R. Bentley, Lynne V. Nazareth, Pamela Whittaker, Pak C. Sham, Amy L. Camargo, David A. Wheeler, Koji Saeki, Martin Godbout, David Altshuler, Liang Xu, Ying Wang, David Willey, Alexandre Montpetit, Shin Lin, Michael S. Phillips, Changqing Zeng, Clement Adebamowo, John C. Wallenburg, Mark S. Chee, Ben Fry, Erich Stahl, Melissa Parkin, Rhian Gwilliam, Andrei Verner, Patrick J. Nailer, Lap-Chee Tsui, Bo Zhang, Fanny Chagnon, David R. Cox, Jack Spiegel, Jamie Moore, Vivian Ota Wang, Patricia A. Marshall, Takuya Kitamoto, Bruce S. Weir, Darryl Macer, Geraldine M. Clarke, Robert C. Onofrio, Mary M.Y. Waye, Wei Wang, Suzanne M. Leal, James C. Mullikin, Toyin Aniagwu, Daniel C. Koboldt, Mary Goyette, Martin Leboeuf, Isaac F. Adewole, Ruth Jamieson, Arnold Oliphant, Jessica Watkin, and Jean François Olivier

Subjects
Linkage disequilibrium, Biology, DNA, Mitochondrial, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Linkage Disequilibrium, Structural variation, Gene Frequency, Humans, Selection, Genetic, International HapMap Project, Genetic association, Haplotypes - genetics, Recombination, Genetic, Genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Y, Multidisciplinary, Genome, Human, DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics, Haplotype, Tag SNP, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics, Haplotypes, Human genome, Haplotype estimation, Chromosomes, Human, Y - genetics
Abstract

Inherited genetic variation has a critical but as yet largely uncharacterized role in human disease. Here we report a public database of common variation in the human genome: more than one million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for which accurate and complete genotypes have been obtained in 269 DNA samples from four populations, including ten 500-kilobase regions in which essentially all information about common DNA variation has been extracted. These data document the generality of recombination hotspots, a block-like structure of linkage disequilibrium and low haplotype diversity, leading to substantial correlations of SNPs with many of their neighbours. We show how the HapMap resource can guide the design and analysis of genetic association studies, shed light on structural variation and recombination, and identify loci that may have been subject to natural selection during human evolution. © 2005 Nature Publishing Group., link_to_OA_fulltext

Published
2005

14. The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

Author

Gernot Glöckner, Karen Thomas, Christine Lloyd, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Adrienne Hunt, Fiona Francis, Annemarie Poustka, George M. Weinstock, Xuehong Wei, Alan Tracey, Gabriele Nordsiek, Ines Müller, Graham Clarke, Oliver Beasley, John Sulston, Alfred Beck, Christian J. Buhay, Thomas Meitinger, Manjula Maheshwari, Yvonne Ramsey, Kirsten McLay, Shannon Dugan-Rocha, James G. R. Gilbert, Louisa Faulkner, Sidney Morris, Margaret Morgan, Huntington F. Willard, Leni S. Jacob, Hermela Loulseged, K M Porter, T. Daniel Andrews, Cordelia Langford, Paul Wray, Guan Chen, Juliane Ramser, Nigel P. Carter, Georgina Warry, Ruby Banerjee, Graeme Bethel, LaDeana W. Hillier, Anne Hodgson, Stephen M. J. Searle, K F Barlow, David R. Bentley, Paul E. Tabor, Kathryn L. Evans, Russell J. Grocock, Rebecca Woodmansey, Alex V Pearce, Christie Kovar-Smith, Angela Williamson, Dean Chavez, Roy Storey, Kevin L. Howe, Zhijian J. Chen, Lesette Perez, Richard A. Gibbs, Michele D'Urso, Karen N Bates, Jackie Bye, Shirin S. Joseph, Bernd Hinzmann, Paul Heath, Susan H. Kelly, Jennifer Hume, Paula E. Burch, David Buck, Mark T. Ross, David A. Wheeler, Matthew C. Jones, A K Babbage, Erica Sodergren, Sophie Palmer, Jie Ma, Elizabeth C. Sotheran, Margaret A. Leversha, Cerissa Hamilton, Hans Lehrach, Swaroop Aradhya, Michael L. Metzker, S. M. Clegg, Elizabeth J. Huckle, Audrey Fraser, Sarah Bray-Allen, C. D. Skuce, Petra Galgoczy, Richard K. Wilson, Patrick Minx, Richard E Connor, Tamsin Eades, Alfons Meindl, Michelle Smith, John M. Davis, André Rosenthal, Stuart McLaren, Geoffery Okwuonu, M. Vaudin, Laura Carrel, Ryan J. Lozado, Harminder Sehra, Richard Pandian, Sue Y Clark, Anna Kosiura, Wen Liu, Simon G. Gregory, A Tromans, Alexandra Emery-Cohen, Charles Shaw-Smith, Donna Villasana, Joseph Chako, Katja Heitmann, Robert G. David, Jennifer L. Ashurst, Craig Chinault, S Lawlor, Paul Havlak, Jane E. Loveland, Lucy Matthews, Jianling Zhou, S. Whitehead, Paul Hunt, E Sheridan, Richard Reinhardt, Tim Hubbard, Mary G. Schueler, Patrick Meidl, Helen Beasley, David Beare, Donna M. Muzny, Kerry A Ridler, Joanne C Chapman, Jennifer McDowall, Andrew Dunham, Anne Bridgeman, Gabrielle Williams, Amanda McMurray, Stefan Taudien, Matthew E. Hurles, Helen Williamson, Preethi H. Gunaratne, Alfredo Ciccodicola, R Ainscough, Alison J. Coffey, Charlotte G. Cole, Stephan Beck, Frances L Lovell, Alan Coulson, Qiaoyan Wang, Sally Jones, Charles A. Steward, Michael Hoffs, Kim C. Worley, Sarah Pelan, David Bonnin, David Schlessinger, Mathew N Whiteley, Graham Scott, Christopher N O'Dell, Tineace Taylor, Susan Rhodes, Anthony P. West, E. Hart, Ian P. Barrett, Andrea Thorpe, D. Pearson, Huyen Dinh, Susan M. Gribble, Andrew J Knights, Laurens G. Wilming, N Corby, Steven E. Scherer, Pawandeep Dhami, Gerald Nyakatura, J Lovell, M. Ali Ansari-Lari, Kerstin P. Clerc-Blankenburg, David Swarbreck, Sara Zorilla, Yanghong Gu, Karin Blechschmidt, Matthew Dunn, Andrew Brown, Kirsten M. Timms, Darren Grafham, Yan Ding, Elspeth A. Bruford, Leanne Williams, Melanie M. Wall, Hua Shen, Dina Patel, Joanne K Kershaw, Rachel Gill, Yuan Chen, Joy Davies, D C Burford, John Burton, Vicky Cobley, R I S Ashwell, Nicola Brady, Ellson Y. Chen, Ngoc Nguyen, Gaiping Wen, Gavin K. Laird, Julia E. Parrish, Carol Scott, C Griffiths, Ratna Shownkeen, Ralf Sudbrak, Denise R. DeShazo, Shiran Pasternak, Ireena Dutta, Brian Teague, Rachael Lyne, David Parker, Jane Rogers, Steve Dodsworth, Mary J. Brown, Gary E Barker, Steve Trevanion, Joanne Burgess, Jane E. Wilkinson, James T. Warren, Jen S. Conquer, R Mark Swann, Oliver Delgado, Heather R. Draper, Shailesh L Mistry, Chris Clee, Richard Durbin, Karen Clifford, John Frankland, Sarah E. Hunt, David Steffen, Christine Burrows, Daniel Verduzco, C Carder, Robert H. Waterston, Stephen Richards, Andrea Ballabio, Catherine M. Rice, David Willey, Helen Errington, Andrew Cree, K. James Durbin, Lora Lewis, D. M. Lloyd, Helen E. Steingruber, Adam Whittaker, K D Ambrose, Rhian Gwilliam, Adam Frankish, Robert S. Fulton, Judith Hernandez, Claire L Bagguley, Pieter J. de Jong, Jennifer Yen, Matthew Ellwood, Christine P. Bird, Rui Chen, Sarah Milne, Clay Davis, Alicia Hawes, Jing Lu, Sven Klages, David L. Nelson, Wayne Burrill, Jingkun Zhang, Judith Isherwood, Kathrin Reichwald, Lenee Waldron, Rebecca Deadman, Steffen Hennig, Ziad Khan, Sarah Ho, Matthias Platzer, Gareth R. Howell, Stephen Keenan, Petra Kioschis, Phillip J Howden, George Miner, David W. Johnson, and James C. Mullikin

Subjects
Male, Genetic Linkage, Genetics, Medical, Centromere, HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE, Biology, Y chromosome, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Evolution, Molecular, Contig Mapping, Chromosome 16, Antigens, Neoplasm, Dosage Compensation, Genetic, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Chromosome 19, Testis, Animals, Humans, Crossing Over, Genetic, X chromosome, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Genetics, Chromosomes, Human, X, Chromosomes, Human, Y, Multidisciplinary, INACTIVATION CENTER, LINKED MENTAL-RETARDATION, Genomics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, REPEAT HYPOTHESIS, MAMMALIAN Y-CHROMOSOME, Chromosome 4, Chromosome 3, RNA, Female, Chromosome 21, Chromosome 22
Abstract

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.

Published
2005

15. DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9

Author

L K Colman, S S White, R Heathcott, K D Ambrose, C Griffiths, C L Bagguley, Christine Lloyd, Jim Davies, James G. R. Gilbert, Richard Durbin, Carol Scott, Rebekah Hall, Graeme Bethel, Adrienne Hunt, C Carder, A Tromans, G Tamlyn-Hall, Jane Rogers, J Garnett, L M Faulkner, J C Chapman, Benjamin Phillimore, M Grant, A Wild, Christopher J. Gillson, S Hammond, A K Babbage, Sophie Palmer, C. D. Skuce, V. Cobley, Margaret A. Leversha, Robert W. Plumb, J. M. Wallis, Lucy Matthews, Sarah E. Smith, Mark Griffiths, Karen Oliver, J Tester, Christopher M. Johnson, M Earthrowl, K L Novik, Graeme T Clark, Kirsten McLay, Michelle Smith, R M Younger, T Nickerson, K F Barlow, A. King, S. M. Clegg, Mark T. Ross, K M Culley, R. E. Collier, K Bates, Nigel P. Carter, Sarah E. Hunt, Matthew Humphries, Kevin L. Howe, R Ainscough, Matthew Jones, J P Almeida, Laurens G. Wilming, R Patel, C M Clee, A M Kimberley, David Niblett, Gareth Maslen, Jane E. Loveland, Pawandeep Dhami, J C Wyatt, Philip Howden, Harminder Sehra, N Corby, Stephan Beck, Andrew J. Mungall, Cordelia Langford, Mohammed J. R. Ghori, O. T. McCann, Sarah Milne, Ian Dunham, C A Edwards, J Y Brown, Matthew Dunn, A J Theaker, Darren Grafham, Alan Tracey, S. Searle, Anne Parker, John Burton, Amanda McMurray, H Whittaker, R I S Ashwell, M Mashreghi-Mohammadi, P Garner, A J Brown, O. Beasley, Michele Clamp, A Thorpe, Daniel Leongamornlert, Alan Coulson, Y. Ramsey, Paul Wray, N Sycamore, Helen Beasley, M. J F Moore, Dave Willey, K M Porter, S Y Clark, A I Peck, Tim Hubbard, D. M. Lloyd, David R. Bentley, A Joy, Joanna Harley, L Spraggon, J Lovell, Anthony P. West, E. Hart, Adam Frankish, M. Kay, Catherine M. Rice, Matthew D. Francis, S A Ranby, Duncan W. Thomas, Elizabeth J. Huckle, T. E. Wilmer, Sean Humphray, L Young, W Burrill, David Beare, B Tubby, S Lawlor, E Sheridan, Susan M. Gribble, J Frankland, A E Ellington, Charles A. Steward, K S Halls, Roger Horton, Melanie M. Wall, James C. Mullikin, D C Burford, S. Holmes, L M Gilby, T D Andrews, Christine P. Bird, Gareth R. Howell, Stephen Keenan, Joanna Collins, S. Squares, Ruby Banerjee, Jennifer L. Ashurst, Sarah Sims, S Bray-Allen, Lisa French, G. J. Coville, Paul Heath, A. V. Pearce, S. Whitehead, Sancha Martin, J Bailey, J Brook, Darren Barker, Rebecca Glithero, Jonathan Wood, E K Overton-Larty, K A Evans, S. Blakey, John Sulston, Gavin K. Laird, Sam Phillips, and S J McLaren

Subjects
Male, Genetics, Medical, Biology, Article, Euchromatin, Evolution, Molecular, Chromosome 15, Chromosome 16, Genes, Duplicate, Gene Duplication, Heterochromatin, Neoplasms, Chromosome 19, Humans, Chromosome 13, Genetics, Base Composition, Multidisciplinary, Genetic Variation, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Genomics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Sex Determination Processes, Physical Chromosome Mapping, Chromosome 17 (human), Genes, Chromosome 3, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Chromosome 21, Chromosome 22, Pseudogenes
Abstract

Chromosome 9 is highly structurally polymorphic. It contains the largest autosomal block of heterochromatin, which is heteromorphic in 6–8% of humans, whereas pericentric inversions occur in more than 1% of the population. The finished euchromatic sequence of chromosome 9 comprises 109,044,351 base pairs and represents >99.6% of the region. Analysis of the sequence reveals many intra- and interchromosomal duplications, including segmental duplications adjacent to both the centromere and the large heterochromatic block. We have annotated 1,149 genes, including genes implicated in male-to-female sex reversal, cancer and neurodegenerative disease, and 426 pseudogenes. The chromosome contains the largest interferon gene cluster in the human genome. There is also a region of exceptionally high gene and G + C content including genes paralogous to those in the major histocompatibility complex. We have also detected recently duplicated genes that exhibit different rates of sequence divergence, presumably reflecting natural selection.

Published
2004

16. Complete Genome Sequence of the Model Rhizosphere Strain Azospirillum brasilense Az39, Successfully Applied in Agriculture

Author

Martin P. Vazquez, Guillermo Andrés Maroniche, José Luis Gualpa, Florence Wisniewski-Dyé, Diego Rivera, Kirsten McLay, Mariana Puente, Jos Vanderleyden, Gastón Paris, Romina Molina, Francisco Martínez-Abarca, Alejandro Perticari, Fabricio Cassán, David Baker, Bernardo J. Clavijo, Christopher J. Watkins, Santiago Revale, and Stijn Spaepen

Subjects
Whole genome sequencing, Rhizosphere, Strain (biology), Chromosome, Biology, Azospirillum brasilense, biology.organism_classification, Genome, Plasmid, Botany, Genetics, Prokaryotes, Molecular Biology, Microbial inoculant
Abstract

We present the complete genome sequence of Azospirillum brasilense Az39, isolated from wheat roots in the central region of Argentina and used as inoculant in extensive and intensive agriculture during the last four decades. The genome consists of 7.39 Mb, distributed in six replicons: one chromosome, three chromids, and two plasmids.

Published
2014

17. A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

Author

Primetta Faccioli, Patrick Wincker, Heidrun Gundlach, Matthias Zytnicki, Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez, Robbie Waugh, David Edwards, Hikmet Budak, Darrin Klassen, M. Kubaláková, Jianzhong Wu, Catherine Feuillet, Beat Keller, Kellye Eversole, Matthew I. Bellgard, Nagendra K. Singh, Hadi Quesneville, Melanie Febrer, Kai Christian Bader, Claire Viseux, Parveen Chhuneja, Jacqueline Batley, Ron Knox, Bernd Friebe, Adam J. Lukaszewski, Yasunari Ogihara, Adriana Alberti, Gary J. Muehlbauer, Kuldeep Singh, Manuel Spannagl, Luigi Cattivelli, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Zdeňka Dubská, Uwe Scholz, Thomas Wicker, Véronique Jamilloux, Mikaël Loaec, Jane Rogers, Odd-Arne Olsen, Thomas Nussbaumer, Hélène Rimbert, Hirokazu Handa, Andrzej Kilian, Natasha Glover, Antonio Michele Stanca, Eduard Akhunov, Hiroaki Sakai, Loïc Couderc, Romana Šperková, Françoise Alfama, Sébastien Praud, Jonathan M. Wright, Sarah Ayling, Brett Chapman, Kirsten McLay, Jesse Poland, Martin Mascher, Etienne Paux, Kerrie Barry, Jaroslav Doležel, Mario Caccamo, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Andrew G. Sharpe, Jitendra P. Khurana, Bernardo J. Clavijo, Takashi R. Endo, Sigbjørn Lien, Leah Clissold, Michael Alaux, Fuminori Kobayashi, Valérie Barbe, Shichen Wang, Takashi Matsumoto, Simen Rød Sandve, Brande B. H. Wulff, Sapna Sharma, Matthias Pfeifer, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Moreno Colaiacovo, P. Ron Maclachlan, Mihaela Martis, Bikram S. Gill, Hana Šimková, Jan Vrána, Takeshi Itoh, Jarmila Číhalíková, Jarrod Chapman, Pierre Sourdille, Rudi Appels, Nils Stein, Burkhard Steuernagel, Frédéric Choulet, Nicolas Guilhot, Curtis J. Pozniak, Lise Pingault, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Unité de Recherche Génomique Info (URGI), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Génétique Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales (GDEC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP), and Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

Subjects
plant genome, gene locus, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Triticum aestivum, gene sequence, Biology, Genome, Chromosomes, Plant, tetraploidy, Evolution, Molecular, Polyploid, wheat, plant chromosome, Gene Order, Gene duplication, chromosome, genetic conservation, Gene, genome, Phylogeny, Triticum, polyploidy, Plant Proteins, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, diploidy, Multidisciplinary, gene duplication, Genetic Variation, Chromosome, food and beverages, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Bread, Sequence Analysis, DNA, gene loss, sequence homology, Genetic marker, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Genome Biology, gene expression, genetic marker, Ploidy, Transcriptome, Genome, Plant
Abstract

La liste complète des auteurs et leurs affiliations sont disponibles à la fin de l'article - 96 collaborateurs : Mayer KF, Rogers J, Doležel J, Pozniak C, Eversole K, Feuillet C, Gill B, Friebe B, Lukaszewski AJ, Sourdille P, Endo TR, Kubaláková M, Cíhalíková J, Dubská Z, Vrána J, Sperková R, Simková H, Febrer M, Clissold L, McLay K, Singh K, Chhuneja P, Singh NK, Khurana J, Akhunov E, Choulet F, Alberti A, Barbe V, Wincker P, Kanamori H, Kobayashi F, Itoh T, Matsumoto T, Sakai H, Tanaka T, Wu J, Ogihara Y, Handa H, Maclachlan PR, Sharpe A, Klassen D, Edwards D, Batley J, Olsen OA, Sandve SR, Lien S, Steuernagel B, Wulff B, Caccamo M, Ayling S, Ramirez-Gonzalez RH, Clavijo BJ, Wright J, Pfeifer M, Spannagl M, Martis MM, Mascher M, Chapman J, Poland JA, Scholz U, Barry K, Waugh R, Rokhsar DS, Muehlbauer GJ, Stein N, Gundlach H, Zytnicki M, Jamilloux V, Quesneville H, Wicker T, Faccioli P, Colaiacovo M, Stanca AM, Budak H, Cattivelli L, Glover N, Pingault L, Paux E, Sharma S, Appels R, Bellgard M, Chapman B, Nussbaumer T, Bader KC, Rimbert H, Wang S, Knox R, Kilian A, Alaux M, Alfama F, Couderc L, Guilhot N, Viseux C, Loaec M, Keller B, Praud S.; International audience; An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated 124,201 gene loci distributed nearly evenly across the homeologous chromosomes and subgenomes. Comparative gene analysis of wheat subgenomes and extant diploid and tetraploid wheat relatives showed that high sequence similarity and structural conservation are retained, with limited gene loss, after polyploidization. However, across the genomes there was evidence of dynamic gene gain, loss, and duplication since the divergence of the wheat lineages. A high degree of transcriptional autonomy and no global dominance was found for the subgenomes. These insights into the genome biology of a polyploid crop provide a springboard for faster gene isolation, rapid genetic marker development, and precise breeding to meet the needs of increasing food demand worldwide.

Published
2014

18. Draft Genome Sequence of a Novel Lactobacillus salivarius Strain Isolated from Piglet

Author

Jens Walter, Lisa Crossman, Nathalie Juge, Nizar Drou, David Swarbreck, Donald A. MacKenzie, Stefan Roos, and Kirsten McLay

Subjects
Whole genome sequencing, Gastrointestinal tract, biology, Lactobacillus salivarius, Strain (biology), food and beverages, Oral cavity, biology.organism_classification, Genome, Microbiology, stomatognathic diseases, stomatognathic system, Genetics, Prokaryotes, Molecular Biology
Abstract

Lactobacillus salivarius is part of the vertebrate indigenous microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract, oral cavity, and milk. The properties associated with some L. salivarius strains have led to their use as probiotics. Here we describe the draft genome of the pig isolate L. salivarius cp400, providing insights into host-niche specialization.

Published
2014

19. Somatic mutations of the histone H3K27 demethylase gene UTX in human cancer

Author

Lucy Stebbings, Syd Barthorpe, Sarah O’Meara, Michael R. Stratton, Richard J. Kahnoski, Lee Mulderrig, Bin Tean Teh, Ronald A. DePinho, Laura Mudie, Mark Maddison, Catherine Leroy, Giovanni Tonon, Philip J. Stephens, Jenny Andrews, David J. McBride, Yu-Tzu Tai, John Wong, Sok Kean Khoo, Meng-Lay Lin, Tatiana Mironenko, Aaron Massie, Claire Hardy, Rachel Turner, David T. Jones, Calli Latimer, Jennifer Cole, Sarah Edkins, Dave Beare, Sofie West, Peter J. Campbell, V. Peter Collins, Helen Davies, Sara Widaa, Graham R. Bignell, Mingming Jia, Patrick S. Tarpey, Gijs van Haaften, Jennifer Varian, Gurpreet Tang, Adam Butler, Chai Yin Kok, Simon Law, Gillian L. Dalgliesh, Raffaella Smith, Koichi Ichimura, Rebecca Shepherd, Jon W. Teague, Erin Pleasance, Kirsten McLay, Simon Maquire, Gemma Buck, Suet Yi Leung, Paul Wray, Andrew Menzies, Simon A. Forbes, Christopher Greenman, P. Andrew Futreal, Kelly Turrell, Jonathan Hinton, Lina Chen, Siu Tsan Yuen, Kenneth C. Anderson, van Haaften, G, Dalgliesh, Gl, Davies, H, Chen, L, Bignell, G, Greenman, C, Edkins, S, Hardy, C, O'Meara, S, Teague, J, Butler, A, Hinton, J, Latimer, C, Andrews, J, Barthorpe, S, Beare, D, Buck, G, Campbell, Pj, Cole, J, Forbes, S, Jia, M, Jones, D, Kok, Cy, Leroy, C, Lin, Ml, Mcbride, Dj, Maddison, M, Maquire, S, Mclay, K, Menzies, A, Mironenko, T, Mulderrig, L, Mudie, L, Pleasance, E, Shepherd, R, Smith, R, Stebbings, L, Stephens, P, Tang, G, Tarpey, P, Turner, R, Turrell, K, Varian, J, West, S, Widaa, S, Wray, P, Collins, Vp, Ichimura, K, Law, S, Wong, J, Yuen, St, Leung, Sy, Tonon, G, Depinho, Ra, Tai, Yt, Anderson, Kc, Kahnoski, Rj, Massie, A, Khoo, Sk, Teh, Bt, Stratton, Mr, and Futreal, Pa.

Subjects
Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases, Methyltransferase, medicine.disease_cause, Article, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, Histone H3, 0302 clinical medicine, Germline mutation, Neoplasms, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Epigenetics, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, biology, Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating, Methylation, Histone, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cancer research, biology.protein, Demethylase
Abstract

Somatically acquired epigenetic changes are present in many cancers. Epigenetic regulation is maintained via post-translational modifications of core histones. Here, we describe inactivating somatic mutations in the histone lysine demethylase gene UTX, pointing to histone H3 lysine methylation deregulation in multiple tumor types. UTX reintroduction into cancer cells with inactivating UTX mutations resulted in slowing of proliferation and marked transcriptional changes. These data identify UTX as a new human cancer gene.

Published
2009

20. The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

Author

Kerstin Howe, Matthew D. Clark, Carlos F. Torroja, James Torrance, Camille Berthelot, Matthieu Muffato, John E. Collins, Sean Humphray, Karen McLaren, Lucy Matthews, Stuart McLaren, Ian Sealy, Mario Caccamo, Carol Churcher, Carol Scott, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Romke Koch, Gerd-Jörg Rauch, Simon White, William Chow, Britt Kilian, Leonor T. Quintais, José A. Guerra-Assunção, Yi Zhou, Yong Gu, Jennifer Yen, Jan-Hinnerk Vogel, Tina Eyre, Seth Redmond, Ruby Banerjee, Jianxiang Chi, Beiyuan Fu, Elizabeth Langley, Sean F. Maguire, Gavin K. Laird, David Lloyd, Emma Kenyon, Sarah Donaldson, Harminder Sehra, Jeff Almeida-King, Jane Loveland, Stephen Trevanion, Matt Jones, Mike Quail, Dave Willey, Adrienne Hunt, John Burton, Sarah Sims, Kirsten McLay, Bob Plumb, Joy Davis, Chris Clee, Karen Oliver, Richard Clark, Clare Riddle, David Elliott, Glen Threadgold, Glenn Harden, Darren Ware, Sharmin Begum, Beverley Mortimore, Giselle Kerry, Paul Heath, Benjamin Phillimore, Alan Tracey, Nicole Corby, Matthew Dunn, Christopher Johnson, Jonathan Wood, Susan Clark, Sarah Pelan, Guy Griffiths, Michelle Smith, Rebecca Glithero, Philip Howden, Nicholas Barker, Christine Lloyd, Christopher Stevens, Joanna Harley, Karen Holt, Georgios Panagiotidis, Jamieson Lovell, Helen Beasley, Carl Henderson, Daria Gordon, Katherine Auger, Deborah Wright, Joanna Collins, Claire Raisen, Lauren Dyer, Kenric Leung, Lauren Robertson, Kirsty Ambridge, Daniel Leongamornlert, Sarah McGuire, Ruth Gilderthorp, Coline Griffiths, Deepa Manthravadi, Sarah Nichol, Gary Barker, Siobhan Whitehead, Michael Kay, Jacqueline Brown, Clare Murnane, Emma Gray, Matthew Humphries, Neil Sycamore, Darren Barker, David Saunders, Justene Wallis, Anne Babbage, Sian Hammond, Maryam Mashreghi-Mohammadi, Lucy Barr, Sancha Martin, Paul Wray, Andrew Ellington, Nicholas Matthews, Matthew Ellwood, Rebecca Woodmansey, Graham Clark, James D. Cooper, Anthony Tromans, Darren Grafham, Carl Skuce, Richard Pandian, Robert Andrews, Elliot Harrison, Andrew Kimberley, Jane Garnett, Nigel Fosker, Rebekah Hall, Patrick Garner, Daniel Kelly, Christine Bird, Sophie Palmer, Ines Gehring, Andrea Berger, Christopher M. Dooley, Zübeyde Ersan-Ürün, Cigdem Eser, Horst Geiger, Maria Geisler, Lena Karotki, Anette Kirn, Judith Konantz, Martina Konantz, Martina Oberländer, Silke Rudolph-Geiger, Mathias Teucke, Christa Lanz, Günter Raddatz, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Baoli Zhu, Amanda Rapp, Sara Widaa, Cordelia Langford, Fengtang Yang, Stephan C. Schuster, Nigel P. Carter, Jennifer Harrow, Zemin Ning, Javier Herrero, Steve M. J. Searle, Anton Enright, Robert Geisler, Ronald H. A. Plasterk, Charles Lee, Monte Westerfield, Pieter J. de Jong, Leonard I. Zon, John H. Postlethwait, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Tim J. P. Hubbard, Hugues Roest Crollius, Jane Rogers, Derek L. Stemple, and Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research

Subjects
Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Genome evolution, Multidisciplinary, Gene prediction, Pseudogene, Genome project, Biology, biology.organism_classification, Genome, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene density, Zebrafish, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, 030304 developmental biology, Reference genome
Abstract

Zebrafish have become a popular organism for the study of vertebrate gene function1,2. The virtually transparent embryos of this species, and the ability to accelerate genetic studies by gene knockdown or overexpression, have led to the widespread use of zebrafish in the detailed investigation of vertebrate gene function and increasingly, the study of human genetic disease3–5. However, for effective modelling of human genetic disease it is important to understand the extent to which zebrafish genes and gene structures are related to orthologous human genes. To examine this, we generated a high-quality sequence assembly of the zebrafish genome, made up of an overlapping set of completely sequenced large-insert clones that were ordered and oriented using a high-resolution high-density meiotic map. Detailed automatic and manual annotation provides evidence of more than 26,000 protein-coding genes6, the largest gene set of any vertebrate so far sequenced. Comparison to the human reference genome shows that approximately 70% of human genes have at least one obvious zebrafish orthologue. In addition, the high quality of this genome assembly provides a clearer understanding of key genomic features such as a unique repeat content, a scarcity of pseudogenes, an enrichment of zebrafish-specific genes on chromosome 4 and chromosomal regions that influence sex determination.

Published
2013

21. Advances in bacterial transcriptome and transposon insertion-site profiling using second-generation sequencing

Author

Kirsten McLay, Melanie Febrer, Robert P. Ryan, Mario Caccamo, and Kate B. Twomey

Subjects
Transposable element, Genetics, Microarray, Bacteria, Sequence analysis, Sequence Analysis, RNA, In silico, RNA, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Bioengineering, Computational biology, Molecular cloning, Biology, Transcriptome, DNA Transposable Elements, Computer Simulation, Gene, Biotechnology
Abstract

The arrival of second-generation sequencing has revolutionized the study of bacteria within a short period. The sequence information generated from these platforms has helped in our understanding of bacterial development, adaptation and diversity and how bacteria cause disease. Furthermore, these technologies have quickly been adapted for high-throughput studies that were previously performed using DNA cloning or microarray-based applications. This has facilitated a more comprehensive study of bacterial transcriptomes through RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and the systematic determination of gene function by 'transposon monitoring'. In this review, we provide an outline of these powerful tools and the in silico analyses used in their application, and also highlight the biological questions being addressed in these approaches.

Published
2011

22. Systematic sequencing of renal carcinoma reveals inactivation of histone modifying genes

Author

Lina Chen, Mingming Jia, Mark Maddison, Claire Hardy, Henry Knott, Jenny Andrews, Bill Wondergem, Karl Dykema, Patrick S. Tarpey, Syd Barthorpe, Meng-Lay Lin, Michael R. Stratton, Sok Kean Khoo, Lucy Stebbings, Sarah Edkins, Laura Mudie, Gemma Buck, Adam Butler, Calli Latimer, Helen Davies, Tatiana Mironenko, David Petillo, David T. Jones, John Anema, Jon W. Teague, Bin Tean Teh, Dave Beare, Simon A. Forbes, Catherine Leroy, Kirsten McLay, Simon Maguire, Gurpreet Tang, Kelly Turrell, P. Andrew Futreal, Graham R. Bignell, Aarjunan Rajasingham, David J. McBride, King Wai Lau, Christopher Greenman, Erin Pleasance, Chai Yin Kok, Andrew Menzies, Richard J. Kahnoski, Gillian L. Dalgliesh, Raffaella Smith, Peter J. Campbell, Rebecca Shepherd, Philip J. Stephens, Lee Mulderrig, Kyle A. Furge, and Sarah O’Meara

Subjects
Histone H3 Lysine 4, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Histones, 03 medical and health sciences, Histone H3, 0302 clinical medicine, SETD2, Genes, Neurofibromatosis 2, medicine, Humans, Cancer epigenetics, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, 030304 developmental biology, Genetics, Histone Demethylases, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Multidisciplinary, Cancer, Nuclear Proteins, Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Sequence Analysis, DNA, medicine.disease, Cell Hypoxia, Chromatin, Kidney Neoplasms, 3. Good health, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Histone, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Histone methyltransferase, biology.protein
Abstract

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common form of adult kidney cancer, characterized by the presence of inactivating mutations in the VHL gene in most cases, and by infrequent somatic mutations in known cancer genes. To determine further the genetics of ccRCC, we have sequenced 101 cases through 3,544 protein-coding genes. Here we report the identification of inactivating mutations in two genes encoding enzymes involved in histone modification-SETD2, a histone H3 lysine 36 methyltransferase, and JARID1C (also known as KDM5C), a histone H3 lysine 4 demethylase-as well as mutations in the histone H3 lysine 27 demethylase, UTX (KMD6A), that we recently reported. The results highlight the role of mutations in components of the chromatin modification machinery in human cancer. Furthermore, NF2 mutations were found in non-VHL mutated ccRCC, and several other probable cancer genes were identified. These results indicate that substantial genetic heterogeneity exists in a cancer type dominated by mutations in a single gene, and that systematic screens will be key to fully determining the somatic genetic architecture of cancer.

Published
2009

23. Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome

Author

Laura Elnitski, David B. Jaffe, Jia Li, Marina Alexandersson, Michael J. Morgan, Shiaw Pyng Yang, Robert Baertsch, Claire M. Wade, John Tromp, Michael C. Zody, Terrence S. Furey, Emma Overton-Larty, Stephen D. Brown, Scott Schwartz, Diane M. Dunn, J. P. Leger, Kris A. Wetterstrand, David Torrents, Ratna Shownkeen, Brian Schultz, Kim C. Worley, Richard D. Emes, John Mayer, Tom Landers, Beverley Meredith, Carol Scott, R. J. Weber, Sean R. Eddy, David Kulp, Jun Kawai, J Bailey, Fan Hsu, Diana L. Kolbe, Kirsten McLay, Marc Botcherby, Richard Mott, Tracie L. Miner, Jill P. Mesirov, Cristyn Kells, Michael A. Quail, Melanie M. Wall, Alistair G. Rust, Josep F. Abril, Ian F Korf, Peter An, Roderic Guigó, Abel Ureta-Vidal, Evan Mauceli, L. Steven Johnson, Arian F.A. Smit, Arkadiusz Kasprzyk, Michael C. Wendl, Deanna M. Church, Francis S. Collins, Wayne N. Frankel, Pallavi Eswara, Bin Ma, Robert H. Waterston, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Edward M. Rubin, John Douglas Mcpherson, Andrew Sheridan, Megan McCarthy, Ming Li, Colin N. Dewey, Justin Deri, Rosie Levine, Matthew Jones, Sheila Dodge, Richard R. Copley, Leo Goodstadt, Shan Yang, Donna Maglott, Jamey Wierzbowski, Nick Goldman, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Simon G. Gregory, C M Clee, Steven Leonard, Elaine R. Mardis, Simon C. Potter, Sarah Sims, Richard A. Gibbs, Mark S. Guyer, Francesca Chiaromonte, Susan Lucas, Mark Diekhans, Steve Searle, Rachel Ainscough, Jane Peterson, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Robert Nicol, Lucy Matthews, Guy Slater, Adam Felsenfeld, Karen Foley, Lucinda Fulton, Tim Hubbard, Richard K. Wilson, Deana W. LaHillier, W. Richard McCombie, Johanna Thompson, Robert David, John Attwood, Anthony P. West, Jane Rogers, Evan Keibler, Lisa Cook, Raju Kucherlapati, Steven Seaman, William E. Nash, Ian J. Jackson, Jonathan Singer, Axin Hua, Tina Graves, Ted Sharpe, Dudley Wyman, Bruce W. Birren, Stuart McLaren, David Willey, A Joy, Douglas Smith, Alexandre Reymond, Paul Flicek, Simon Cawley, Richa Agarwala, Diane Gage, Evanne Trevaskis, Ginger A. Fewell, Michael R. Brent, Tracy C. Ponce, W. James Kent, Timothy Holzer, Eduardo Eyras, Michael J. O’Connor, Webb Miller, Donna M. Muzny, Andrew von Niederhausern, Inna Dubchak, Eitan E. Winter, Catherine Ucla, Arne Stabenau, Michael N. Nhan, Piero Carninci, Michele Clamp, Pavel A. Pevzner, James Meldrim, Tim Cutts, R. D. Campbell, Joy Davies, Wratko Hlavina, Elinor K. Karlsson, David Haussler, John Burton, Peer Bork, Nicole Stange-Thomann, Mikita Suyama, Mark J. Daly, Ewan Birney, Edward J. Kulbokas, Craig Pohl, James C. Mullikin, Chad Nusbaum, Genís Parra, Jade P. Vinson, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Sante Gnerre, Eric Berry, Daniel G. Brown, Asif T. Chinwalla, Emmanuel Mongin, Robert B. Weiss, Raymond Wheeler, Andrew Kirby, Yasushi Okazaki, Lior Pachter, Ross C. Hardison, Brian Spencer, Carol J. Bult, Joanne O. Nelson, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Darren Grafham, Gustavo Glusman, Thomas A. Jones, Glenn Tesler, Simon Whelan, James Cuff, Robert S. Fulton, K F Barlow, Jörg Schultz, Matthias S. Schwartz, Alex Poliakov, Jonathan Butler, Bruce A. Roe, Angela S. Hinrichs, Alan Coulson, Kate Montgomery, Eric D. Green, Stephan Beck, Val Curwen, Krishna M. Roskin, Robert W. Plumb, Chris P. Ponting, Ralph Santos, Victor Sapojnikov, Nicolas Bray, Kymberlie H. Pepin, Charles W. Sugnet, Olivier Couronne, Ivica Letunic, Sophie Williams, Kimberly D. Delehaunty, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Zemin Ning, Karen Oliver, Toby Bloom, Michael Kamal, Nicholas J. Dickens, Eric S. Lander, Christine Lloyd, Donna Karolchik, Adrienne Hunt, Antonarakis, Stylianos, Couronne, Olivier, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil, and Zdobnov, Evgeny

Subjects
RNA, Untranslated, Proteome, Untranslated/genetics, Genome, Transgenic, Repetitive Sequences, Mice, Models, Neoplasms, Conserved Sequence, ddc:616, Genetics, Mice, Knockout, Base Composition, Multidisciplinary, Sex Chromosomes, Pseudogenes/genetics, Genomics, Multigene Family/genetics, Physical Chromosome Mapping, Neoplasms/genetics, CpG Islands/genetics, Proteome/genetics, Genetic Variation/genetics, Multigene Family, Mice/classification/ genetics, Models, Animal, Conserved Sequence/genetics, Sequence Analysis, Pseudogenes, Human, Genome evolution, Evolution, Sequence analysis, Knockout, Quantitative Trait Loci, Mice, Transgenic, Sex Chromosomes/genetics, Computational biology, Biology, Synteny, Chromosomes, Evolution, Molecular, Nucleic Acid/genetics, Genetic, Species Specificity, Mammalian/ genetics, Animals, Humans, Genes/genetics, Selection, Genetic, Selection, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Comparative genomics, Animal, Genome, Human, Molecular, Genetic Variation, DNA, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Chromosomes, Mammalian, Gene Expression Regulation, Genes, Mutagenesis, RNA, Human genome, CpG Islands, Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics, Reference genome
Abstract

The sequence of the mouse genome is a key informational tool for understanding the contents of the human genome and a key experimental tool for biomedical research. Here, we report the results of an international collaboration to produce a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome. We also present an initial comparative analysis of the mouse and human genomes, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the two sequences. We discuss topics including the analysis of the evolutionary forces shaping the size, structure and sequence of the genomes; the conservation of large-scale synteny across most of the genomes; the much lower extent of sequence orthology covering less than half of the genomes; the proportions of the genomes under selection; the number of protein-coding genes; the expansion of gene families related to reproduction and immunity; the evolution of proteins; and the identification of intraspecies polymorphism.

Published
2002

24. The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 20

Author

G Clarke, L M Faulkner, Jane E. Loveland, J Walsh, Kirsten McLay, G Laird, A K Babbage, J C Chapman, Sophie Palmer, C Hynds, M Earthrowl, T D Andrews, J Battles, Theologia Sarafidou, S. M. Clegg, Christine P. Bird, T P Ho, Sarah Pelan, A M Kimberley, Anthony P. West, E. Hart, Russell J. Grocock, Carol Scott, Stuart McLaren, J Lovell, M Kokkinaki, J K Kershaw, Sarah Milne, Christine Lloyd, D. M. Lloyd, R I S Ashwell, L Standring, Amanda McMurray, John Burton, A Rogosin, Yuan Chen, D Camire, Gavin K. Laird, Nigel P. Carter, David Willey, Nicholas K. Moschonas, Stephan Beck, Ruth C. Lovering, Mark T. Ross, Adam Frankish, S Lawlor, Laurens G. Wilming, I Dutta, David Bentley, Joanna Harley, R Ainscough, Matthew Jones, Susan M. Gribble, C. D. Skuce, A Thorpe, Pawandeep Dhami, L Young, Melanie M. Wall, Erik Gustafson, David Swarbreck, Douglas Smith, J Frankland, S Y Clark, C M Clee, Lucy Matthews, S Bray-Allen, A Taylor, W Burrill, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, S. Searle, Alan Tracey, J Tester, Panos Deloukas, Daniel Leongamornlert, T Nickerson, David W. Johnson, Philip Howden, Paul Wray, M. Kay, Catherine M. Rice, A Kana, H M Lee, Keith Weinstock, Kim Fechtel, Sarah E. Hunt, A I Peck, S. Whitehead, H Wang, N Sycamore, Patrick Cahill, J Bailey, Alan Coulson, E K Overton-Larty, J Y Brown, Jennifer L. Ashurst, A. V. Pearce, M Mashreghi-Mohammadi, C L Bagguley, P Garner, A J Brown, Benjamin Phillimore, W Torcasso, S Hammond, M Nguyen, J Horne, K Bates, J P Almeida, N Corby, Matthew Dunn, Darren Grafham, Ratna Shownkeen, D C Burford, A Tromans, Jane Rogers, J Garnett, Harminder Sehra, Kerstin Howe, K D Ambrose, James G. R. Gilbert, Helen Beasley, Reiner Siebert, Charles A. Steward, Chris Johnson, K M Porter, Ruby Banerjee, Marc Rubenfield, Sarah Sims, Lisa French, Paul Heath, Elizabeth J. Huckle, B Hopkins, C Griffiths, Richard Durbin, J Tsolas, Michelle Smith, and Tim Hubbard

Subjects
Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Base Sequence, Proteome, Sequence analysis, Pseudogene, Physical Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 20, Genetic Diseases, Inborn, Computational Biology, Genetic Variation, Locus (genetics), DNA, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Biology, Contig Mapping, Mice, Gene duplication, Animals, Humans, Human genome, Chromosome 20, Segmental duplication
Abstract

The finished sequence of human chromosome 20 comprises 59,187,298 base pairs (bp) and represents 99.4% of the euchromatic DNA. A single contig of 26 megabases (Mb) spans the entire short arm, and five contigs separated by gaps totalling 320 kb span the long arm of this metacentric chromosome. An additional 234,339 bp of sequence has been determined within the pericentromeric region of the long arm. We annotated 727 genes and 168 pseudogenes in the sequence. About 64% of these genes have a 5' and a 3' untranslated region and a complete open reading frame. Comparative analysis of the sequence of chromosome 20 to whole-genome shotgun-sequence data of two other vertebrates, the mouse Mus musculus and the puffer fish Tetraodon nigroviridis, provides an independent measure of the efficiency of gene annotation, and indicates that this analysis may account for more than 95% of all coding exons and almost all genes.

Published
2002

25. Erratum: Corrigendum: The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

Author

Alan Tracey, Lucy Barr, Karen Holt, Stephen J. Trevanion, Bob Plumb, Daniel Leongamornlert, Paul Wray, Carol Churcher, J. C. Davis, Ruth Gilderthorp, Christine Lloyd, Adrienne Hunt, Michelle Smith, Britt Kilian, Martina Konantz, Jeff Almeida-King, Richard M. Clark, Nick Barker, Kirsty Ambridge, Susan J. Clark, Karen Oliver, Glen Threadgold, Yong Gu, Jane E. Loveland, David Lloyd, Guy Griffiths, Ronald H.A. Plasterk, Karen McLaren, Sarah Pelan, Sarah Nichol, Kenric Leung, Rebecca Woodmansey, Sharmin Begum, Cigdem Eser, Sophie Palmer, Jacqueline Brown, Ian M Sealy, James Torrance, J Lovell, John E. Collins, Sara Widaa, A M Kimberley, A Tromans, Richard Pandian, Judith Konantz, Maria Geisler, Carlos Torroja, N Sycamore, Sancha Martin, Darren Barker, Amanda Rapp, Monte Westerfield, Silke Rudolph-Geiger, Zemin Ning, José Afonso Guerra-Assunção, Clare Riddle, Rebecca Glithero, Daniel P. Kelly, Nicholas Matthews, Pieter J. de Jong, Nigel P. Carter, Camille Berthelot, Fengtang Yang, A K Babbage, Graham Clark, Andrea Berger, Robert Andrews, C Griffiths, Jennifer Harrow, Gerd Jörg Rauch, Steve Searle, J. M. Wallis, Christa Lanz, Ruby Banerjee, William Chow, Jan Hinnerk Vogel, Matthieu Muffato, David Elliott, Mathias Teucke, Derek L. Stemple, Debbie E. Wright, Deepa Manthravadi, Gavin K. Laird, Sarah Sims, M Mashreghi-Mohammadi, David S. Saunders, Lena Karotki, P Garner, Paul Heath, Jane Rogers, Ines Gehring, J Garnett, Charles Lee, Philip Howden, John H. Postlethwait, Robert Geisler, Sarah Donaldson, Elizabeth Langley, Claire Raisen, Katherine Auger, Javier Herrero, Beiyuan Fu, Carol Scott, Zübeyde Ersan-Ürün, Mario Caccamo, Sean Humphray, Gary L A Barker, S. Whitehead, Darren Ware, Baoli Zhu, Jianxiang Chi, Jonathan Wood, Nigel Fosker, Sarah McGuire, Stephan C. Schuster, Chris Clee, Martina Oberländer, Daria Gordon, Clare Murnane, Romke Koch, Emma Gray, Beverley J. Mortimore, Harminder Sehra, Joanna Collins, Hugues Roest Crollius, Kirsten McLay, Kerstin Howe, Lauren Dyer, Christopher Stevens, Andrew D. Ellington, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Stuart McLaren, Christopher N. Johnson, Giselle Kerry, Helen Beasley, Georgios Panagiotidis, Christiane Nüsslein Volhard, Tina Eyre, Horst Geiger, Jennifer Yen, Matthew Ellwood, Christine P. Bird, N Corby, Matthew Dunn, Darren Grafham, Günter Raddatz, Matthew Humphries, Anette Kirn, Yi Zhou, James D. Cooper, John Burton, Simon D. M. White, Anton J. Enright, Dave Willey, Tim Hubbard, Rebekah Hall, Michael Kay, Matthew D. Clark, Matthew Jones, Glenn Harden, C. D. Skuce, Lauren Robertson, Leonard I. Zon, Lucy Matthews, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Michael A. Quail, Emma J. Kenyon, Leonor T. Quintais, Benjamin Phillimore, S Hammond, Carl Henderson, Joanna Harley, Elliot Harrison, Cordelia Langford, Christopher M. Dooley, and Sean Maguire

Subjects
Max planck institute, Comparative genomics, Multidisciplinary, Reference genome sequence, biology, Evolutionary biology, Philosophy, Human genome, Bioinformatics, biology.organism_classification, Zebrafish
Abstract

Nature 496, 498–503 (2013); doi:10.1038/nature12111 In this Letter, five authors were inadvertently omitted: Sharmin Begum and Christine Lloyd from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and Christa Lanz, Gunter Raddatz and Stephan C. Schuster from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. David Elliot was incorrectly listed as David Eliot, Beverley Mortimore was incorrectly listed as Beverly Mortimer, and James D.

Published
2013

26. An Evaluation of Different Target Enrichment Methods in Pooled Sequencing Designs for Complex Disease Association Studies

Author

Alison J. Coffey, Kirsten McLay, Eleanor Drury, Aaron G. Day-Williams, Eleftheria Zeggini, Sarah Edkins, Aarno Palotie, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Subjects
SELECTION, Heredity, lcsh:Medicine, Genome-wide association study, Polymerase Chain Reaction, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, MISSING HERITABILITY, Missing heritability problem, HUMAN GENOME, Genome Sequencing, lcsh:Science, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, Genomics, RARE VARIANTS, Medicine, Gene pool, HYBRIDIZATION, Research Article, STRATEGIES, Sequence analysis, Genotypes, education, Biology, HIGH-THROUGHPUT, DNA sequencing, 03 medical and health sciences, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, Allele frequency, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Clinical Genetics, Population Biology, Models, Genetic, Complex Traits, Genome, Human, Gene Expression Profiling, lcsh:R, Computational Biology, Genetic Variation, Reproducibility of Results, Human Genetics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, DNA, Genetics, Population, Genetic Polymorphism, lcsh:Q, 3111 Biomedicine, Population Genetics, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Pooled sequencing can be a cost-effective approach to disease variant discovery, but its applicability in association studies remains unclear. We compare sequence enrichment methods coupled to next-generation sequencing in non-indexed pools of 1, 2, 10, 20 and 50 individuals and assess their ability to discover variants and to estimate their allele frequencies. We find that pooled resequencing is most usefully applied as a variant discovery tool due to limitations in estimating allele frequency with high enough accuracy for association studies, and that in-solution hybrid-capture performs best among the enrichment methods examined regardless of pool size.

Published
2011

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