Evidence for an additional locus for split hand/foot malformation in chromosome region 8q21.11–q22.3

2006 ◽  
Vol 140A (16) ◽  
pp. 1744-1748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina A. Gurnett ◽  
Matthew B. Dobbs ◽  
Eric J. Nordsieck ◽  
Cassie Keppel ◽  
Charles A. Goldfarb ◽  
...  
Genetics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Riera-Lizarazu ◽  
M I Vales ◽  
E V Ananiev ◽  
H W Rines ◽  
R L Phillips

Abstract In maize (Zea mays L., 2n = 2x = 20), map-based cloning and genome organization studies are often complicated because of the complexity of the genome. Maize chromosome addition lines of hexaploid cultivated oat (Avena sativa L., 2n = 6x = 42), where maize chromosomes can be individually manipulated, represent unique materials for maize genome analysis. Maize chromosome addition lines are particularly suitable for the dissection of a single maize chromosome using radiation because cultivated oat is an allohexaploid in which multiple copies of the oat basic genome provide buffering to chromosomal aberrations and other mutations. Irradiation (gamma rays at 30, 40, and 50 krad) of a monosomic maize chromosome 9 addition line produced maize chromosome 9 radiation hybrids (M9RHs)—oat lines possessing different fragments of maize chromosome 9 including intergenomic translocations and modified maize addition chromosomes with internal and terminal deletions. M9RHs with 1 to 10 radiation-induced breaks per chromosome were identified. We estimated that a panel of 100 informative M9RHs (with an average of 3 breaks per chromosome) would allow mapping at the 0.5- to 1.0-Mb level of resolution. Because mapping with maize chromosome addition lines and radiation hybrid derivatives involves assays for the presence or absence of a given marker, monomorphic markers can be quickly and efficiently mapped to a chromosome region. Radiation hybrid derivatives also represent sources of region-specific DNA for cloning of genes or DNA markers.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
SERGEI N. ORLOV ◽  
JULIE DUTIL ◽  
PAVEL HAMET ◽  
ALAN Y. DENG

Both linkage and use of congenic strains have shown that a chromosome region near the gene for the Na-K-ATPase α1-subunit ( Atp1a1) contained a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for blood pressure (BP). Currently, two congenic strains, designated S.M5 and S.M6, were made by replacing a segment of the Dahl salt-sensitive SS/Jr (S) rat by the homologous region of the Milan normotensive rat (MNS). In S.M5, the gene for Atp1a1 is from the MNS strain; whereas in S.M6, Atp1a1 is from the S strain. The baseline activity of the α1-Na-K-ATPase and its stoichiometry were evaluated by an assay of ouabain-sensitive inwardly and outwardly directed 86Rb and 22Na fluxes in erythrocytes. The two congenic strains showed a similar BP, but both had a BP lower than that of S rats ( P < 0.0001). Neither the α1-Na-K-ATPase activity nor its stoichiometry was affected by the substitution of the Atp1a1 alleles of S by those of MNS. Thus the BP-lowering effects observed in S.M5 and S.M6 could not be attributed to the α1-Na-K-ATPase activity or its stoichiometry. Atp1a1 is not supported as a candidate to be a BP QTL.


1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Nuzhdin ◽  
Peter D. Keightley ◽  
Elena G. Pasyukova

SummaryHitch-hiking of dispersed mobile elements serving as molecular markers was used as a new tool for mapping quantitative trait loci in Drosophila melanogaster. Two Drosophila strains with high fitness (HA) were backcrossed repeatedly to a closely related strain with low fitness (LA) to initiate experimental populations with expected HA gene frequencies of 1/32. The frequencies of 19 insertion sites of the retrotransposons mdg1 and copia were analyzed after 11 to 17 generations. Frequencies of sites from the HA line increased substantially in the pericentromeric region, indicating that one or more loci responsible for the fitness difference between the strains were located there. A maximum likelihood (ML) procedure was applied to estimate selection coefficients associated with the markers, and this indicated a broad, strongly selected region of the chromosome. At least one additional locus was localized in the middle of the 2L arm. Possible applications of this method are discussed.


Oncogene ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 945-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Chaffanet ◽  
Cornel Popovici ◽  
Dominique Leroux ◽  
Michèle Jacrot ◽  
José Adélaïde ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behzad Sadeghzadeh ◽  
Zed Rengel ◽  
Chengdao Li ◽  
Hua’an Yang

Genome ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Humphreys ◽  
Brenda Duyf ◽  
Mei-Ling A. Joiner ◽  
John P. Phillips ◽  
Arthur J. Hilliker

Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster that lack Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase or urate are hypersensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated in vivo by the redox-cycling agent paraquat. We have subsequently employed paraquat as a selective agent to identify adult viable mutants potentially defective in other, perhaps unknown, components of ROS metabolism. Paraquat screening of ethyl methanesulfonate-induced second- and third-chromosome mutations yielded 24 paraquat hypersensitive mutants. Two mutants were identified as being new alleles of the previously identified doublesex (dsx) and pink (p) genes. The remainder of the mutations identified previously undescribed genes, including one second chromosome paraquat hypersensitive mutant that was found to exhibit shaking legs, abdomen pulsations, and body shuddering under ether anaesthesia. This recessive mutation was mapped to the polytene chromosome region of 48A5–48B2 and defines a new gene we named quiver (qvr). This mutation is similar in phenotype to the Shaker (Sh), ether-a-gogo (eag), and Hyperkinetic (Hk) mutations, all of which affect potassium channel function in D. melanogaster. Key words : Drosophila, paraquat, EMS-mutagenesis, Shaker, oxidative-stress.


1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryvonne Le Coniat ◽  
Catherine Alcaide-Loridan ◽  
Marc Fellous ◽  
Roland Berger

1991 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Jadresic ◽  
R.B. Wadey ◽  
B. Buckle ◽  
T.M. Barratt ◽  
C.D. Mitchell ◽  
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