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ArticleNucleic acids research2005

New approaches to the analysis of palindromic sequences from the human genome: evolution and polymorphism of an intronic site at the NF1 locus.

Susanna M Lewis, Shuang Chen, Jeffrey N Strathern, Alison J Rattray

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Palindromes in DNA-A Risk for Genome Stability and Implications in Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  4. Decoding NF1 Intragenic Copy-Number Variations.American journal of human genetics · 2015
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  7. The human genome-wide distribution of DNA palindromes.Functional & integrative genomics · 2007
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4 authors.

Susanna M LewisProgram in Genetics and Genomic Biology, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada. susanna@sickkids.ca
Shuang Chen
Jeffrey N Strathern
Alison J Rattray

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nature of any long palindrome that might exist in the human genome is obscured by the instability of such sequences once cloned in Escherichia coli. We describe and validate a practical alternative to the analysis of naturally-occurring palindromes based upon cloning and propagation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. With this approach we have investigated an intronic sequence in the human Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) locus that is represented by multiple conflicting versions in GenBank. We find that the site is highly polymorphic, exhibiting different degrees of palindromy in different individuals. A side-by-side comparison of the same plasmids in E.coli versus. S.cerevisiae demonstrated that the more palindromic alleles were inevitably corrupted upon cloning in E.coli, but could be propagated intact in yeast. The high quality sequence obtained from the yeast-based approach provides insight into the various mechanisms that destabilize a palindrome in E.coli, yeast and humans, into the diversification of a highly polymorphic site within the NF1 locus during primate evolution, and into the association between palindromy and chromosomal translocation.

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Genes, Neurofibromatosis 1Genome, HumanIntronsPolymorphism, GeneticRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidAllelesArtifactsBase SequenceCloning, MolecularEscherichia coliEvolution, MolecularGenomicsHumansMolecular Sequence DataPlasmidsPolymerase Chain Reaction

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PMID16340004
PMCPMC1310899

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