• These results provide empirical support for longstanding models of sex chromosome catalysis, and suggest an important role for sexual selection and sexual conflict in genome evolution. (nature.com)
  • Because researchers use different approaches to genome annotation , their predictions of the number of genes on each chromosome varies (for technical details, see gene prediction ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Non-random segregation of chromosomes is a deviation from the usual distribution of chromosomes during meiosis, that is, during segregation of the genome among gametes. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, growing evidence strongly suggests that transcription can interfere locally with genome duplication by DNA polymerases or with the SMC-driven 3D organization of chromosomes (Fig. 1). (ens-lyon.fr)
  • Our analysis revealed lineage-specific (LS) genomic regions in F. oxysporum that include four entire chromosomes and account for more than one-quarter of the genome. (nature.com)
  • However, vast portions of the human genome are subject to transcriptional and epigenetic regulation, and many noncoding regulatory DNA elements are thought to regulate the spatial organization of interphase chromosomes. (nih.gov)
  • Here, we show that chromosome conformation capture, a widely used approach to study higher-order chromatin, is applicable to tissue collected postmortem, thereby informing about genome organization in the human brain. (nih.gov)
  • A functional evolutionary approach to identify determinants of nucleosome positioning: a unifying model for establishing the genome-wide pattern. (harvard.edu)
  • It results from a chromosomal abnormality where cells of affected individuals contain a third copy of chromosome 21 (1% of the human genome). (unige.ch)
  • A study conducted by Stylianos Antonarakis and his team in the Department of Genetic Medicine and Development at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) Faculty of Medicine, published in Nature , shed light on how the extra chromosome 21 upsets the equilibrium of the entire genome, causing a wide variety of pathologies. (unige.ch)
  • According to a hypothesis called «gene dosage disequilibrium», the presence of a third chromosome 21 could influence the expression of all the other genes in the genome. (unige.ch)
  • Federico Santoni, who co-authored this study, notes that, «These changes do not only affect chromosome 21, but the entire genome. (unige.ch)
  • The following chromosomal conditions are associated with changes in the structure or number of copies of chromosome 15. (medlineplus.gov)
  • 15q13.3 microdeletion is a chromosomal change in which a small piece of chromosome 15 is deleted in each cell. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Conservation between man and mouse of chromosomal position and unique expression exclusively from the inactive X chromosome lends support to the hypothesis that XIST and its mouse homologue are involved in X-chromosome inactivation. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In particular, G band analysis usually does not show the chromosomal origin of small marker chromosomes or of a small amount of extra material detected on otherwise normal chromosomes. (bmj.com)
  • Chromosomal identification of marker chromosomes and extra bands on chromosomes through molecular techniques is always of clinical interest. (bmj.com)
  • These syndromes result from the loss of chromosomal material from the short arm of chromosome 11. (medscape.com)
  • The pathogenic germline deletion of varying lengths of chromosomal material along the short arm of chromosome 11, including WT1 and PAX6 , is the underlying defect. (medscape.com)
  • WAGR syndrome is caused by the contiguous loss of chromosomal material from the short arm of chromosome 11. (medscape.com)
  • While usually according to the 2nd Mendelian rule ("Law of Segregation of genes") homologous chromosomes are randomly distributed among daughter nuclei, there are various modes deviating from this in numerous organisms that are "normal" in the relevant taxa. (wikipedia.org)
  • It also happens that non-homologous chromosomes segregate in a coordinated manner. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the chromosome theory of inheritance formulated by Theodor Boveri in 1904, homologous chromosomes were expected to be randomly distributed among the daughter nuclei during meiosis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prior to the first meiotic division, homologous chromosomes pair, synapse, and recombine to ensure their proper disjunction at anaphase I. Additionally, telomeres tethered at the nuclear envelope cluster in the bouquet configuration where they are subjected to dramatic pulling forces acting from outside of the nucleus. (biorxiv.org)
  • Identifying genes on each chromosome is an active area of genetic research. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Because researchers use different approaches to predict the number of genes on each chromosome, the estimated number of genes varies. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In particular, we investigate: how the efficiency of RNA polymerase elongation can influence the distribution of the SMC complex condensin during mitotic chromosome condensation and, how the transcription by-product R-loop can interfere with chromosome integrity. (ens-lyon.fr)
  • R-loops have also recently been linked to the formation of Common Fragile Sites (CFS) on mitotic chromosomes. (ens-lyon.fr)
  • Has cohesin ATPase activity, double-stranded DNA binding, topological DNA entrapment activity, role in mitotic cohesin loading and condensed nuclear chromosome, centromeric region, nuclear mitotic cohesin complex localization. (cdc.gov)
  • At kinetochore-microtubule plus ends, the kinesin-8 family member Kif18A is essential to align mitotic chromosomes at the spindle equator during cell division, but how it accomplishes this function is unclear. (nih.gov)
  • Despite highly aberrant nuclear distributions of A-type lamins and emerin in lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from patients with emerin or lamin A mutations, little or no change in chromosome location was detected. (portlandpress.com)
  • More specifically, it is caused by mutations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 gene ( FGFR2 ), located on chromosome 10. (brighthub.com)
  • X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets and autosomal recessive hypophosphatemic rickets are the result of mutations in PHEX (a phosphate-regulating gene with homologies to endopeptidases on the X chromosome) and dentin matrix protein 1 ( DMP1 ), respectively. (medscape.com)
  • Severe clinical syndromes (sometimes referred to as the connatal forms of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease) are typically caused by missense and other small mutations that affect critical positions in PLP1 , whereas the milder spastic paraplegia syndrome is caused by mutations that presumably affect less critical regions of the protein. (medscape.com)
  • The most common mutations that cause Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease are duplications of a region of the X chromosome that includes the entire PLP1 gene. (medscape.com)
  • In most cases, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease is caused by mutations of PLP1 on the long arm of the X chromosome (Xq22). (medscape.com)
  • Chromosome 9 spans about 150 million base pairs of nucleic acids (the building blocks of DNA ) and represents between 4.0 and 4.5% of the total DNA in cells . (wikipedia.org)
  • They may involve single chromosome pairs (bivalents) or single chromosomes without mating partners (univalents), or even whole sets of chromosomes, in that these are separated according to their parental origin and, as a rule, only those of maternal origin are passed on to the offspring. (wikipedia.org)
  • Meanwhile, researchers had discovered an odd-shaped chromosome (all other chromosomes occurred in similarly shaped pairs) that seemed to be related to male sex (now called the Y chromosome). (wikisummaries.org)
  • Two copies of chromosome 15, one copy inherited from each parent, form one of the pairs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Chromosome 15 spans more than 102 million DNA building blocks (base pairs) and represents more than 3 percent of the total DNA in cells. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Chromosomes in which fragments of exogenous DNA ranging in length up to several hundred kilobase pairs have been cloned into yeast through ligation to vector sequences. (harvard.edu)
  • Every normal human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Except for certain cells (for example, sperm and egg cells and red blood cells), the cell nucleus contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Intriguingly, we found that the X chromosome breakpoint in the daughter could not be defined by a single breakpoint spanning genomic clone and further analysis showed a 650 kb submicroscopic duplication between DXS7067 and DXS7060 on either side of the X chromosome translocation breakpoint. (bmj.com)
  • Therefore comparative genomic analysis of T . equi was undertaken to: 1) identify genes contributing to immune evasion and persistence in equid hosts, 2) identify genes involved in PBMC infection biology and 3) define the phylogenetic position of T . equi relative to sequenced apicomplexan parasites. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Comparative genomic analysis of T . equi revealed the phylogenetic positioning relative to seven apicomplexan parasites using deduced amino acid sequences from 150 genes placed it as a sister taxon to Theileria spp . (biomedcentral.com)
  • We have used comparative genomic hybridisation to analyse 19 constitutional chromosome abnormalities detected by G band analysis, including seven deletions, five supernumerary marker chromosomes, two interstitial duplications, and five chromosomes presenting with abnormal terminal banding patterns. (bmj.com)
  • Although the structural chromosome abnormalities in these cases were too small to identify the origin of the extra genomic material based on banding pattern, none of the abnormalities described by these authors can be considered to be subtle or cryptic. (bmj.com)
  • These artificial chromosomes are used extensively in molecular biology for the construction of comprehensive genomic libraries of higher organisms. (harvard.edu)
  • People normally inherit one copy of chromosome 15 from each parent. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Why are there multiple entries for a given chromosome and position in my VCF? (gencove.com)
  • L'hybridation fluorescente in situ (FISH) est une technique qui permet des séquences d'ADN spécifiques à détecter sur les chromosomes en métaphase ou en interphase en 1 noyaux des cellules. (jove.com)
  • Characterisation of breakpoints in patients with apparently balanced constitutional chromosome rearrangements and phenotypic abnormalities has proved an invaluable strategy for identifying disease causing genes, especially those on the X chromosome. (bmj.com)
  • Constitutional chromosome studies involving conventional GTG band cytogenetic analysis, however, often show unbalanced karyotypes which cannot be fully defined because the extra material is too small to have a recognisable banding pattern. (bmj.com)
  • Others have applied CGH to the study of constitutional chromosome abnormalities detected postnatally. (bmj.com)
  • Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate an intermediate position for T . equi between B . bovis and Theileria spp. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using synchronized cells undergoing recombination that is initiated at a specific site on a chromosome by an inducible endonuclease, we use physical monitoring techniques (Southern blots, PCR analysis) to follow the sequence of molecular events that occur in real time. (brandeis.edu)
  • Surprisingly, the nup2Δ ndj1Δ double mutant failed to segregate chromosomes, even though the meiotic program continued. (biorxiv.org)
  • Amino acid position is in a conserved region compared to other Aspergilli (26/31 shared amino acids) and the protein sequences have 84% homology. (cdc.gov)
  • This is the process we have studied most intensively, but we are also interested in an alternative process known as break-induced replication (BIR), where only one end of a chromosome break locates a template sequence and assembles a complete replication fork and can copy sequences to the end of a chromosome, producing a nonreciprocal translocation. (brandeis.edu)
  • CGH has been widely applied to detect gains and losses of DNA sequences on specific chromosomes in the study of solid tumours, 1 but has not been extensively used to study unbalanced constitutional karyotypes. (bmj.com)
  • Despite the primary long-read assembly being ' quite excellent' , sex chromosome contigs were shorter than autosomal contigs, with repetitive sequences proving particularly problematic to resolve. (nanoporetech.com)
  • Introduction to the organization * Include a description of the company, Institute/Center, and/or research group in which the position is located. (nih.gov)
  • By comparing their results with data previously published by other research groups, UNIGE researchers noticed that this specific chromosomes organization correlates with DNA position in the cell nucleus. (unige.ch)
  • Chromosomes-which appear as stringlike structures within cells-had been discovered by cell researchers in the 1850's. (wikisummaries.org)
  • We introduce chromosome conformation capture protocols for brain and compare higher-order chromatin structures at the chromosome 6p22.2-22.1 schizophrenia and bipolar disorder susceptibility locus, and additional neurodevelopmental risk genes, (DPP10, MCPH1) in adult prefrontal cortex and various cell culture systems, including neurons derived from reprogrammed skin cells. (nih.gov)
  • Chromosomes are structures within cells that contain a person's genes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The third basic variant of non-random segregation, in which the complete sets of chromosomes of maternal and paternal origin are separated from each other, was studied - among some other peculiarities - in the 1920s and 30s by Charles W. Metz and co-workers in fungus gnats. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dup15q syndrome arises only if the chromosome abnormality occurs on the copy of the chromosome inherited from the mother (the maternal copy). (medlineplus.gov)
  • However, some genes on this chromosome, including some of those in the 15q11.2-q13.1 region, are turned on (active) only on the maternal copy. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The position of genes relative to each other, both within a chromosome, and between the paternal X and maternal X chromosomes, was revealed. (nanoporetech.com)
  • Sex-limited heredity[Sex limited heredity] The Mendelian factor, or gene, that determined white eyes was located on the same chromosome as the gene that determined male sex, or, as it turned out, on the male chromosome. (wikisummaries.org)
  • The discovery of sex-limited heredity revealed the association of Mendelian genes with chromosomes and the function of chromosomes in heredity. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Following the discovery of sex-limited heredity, Morgan saw that a concerted effort would be required to expound fully the Mendelian chromosome theory, and he therefore enlisted a group of exceptional students to share the work in his so-called fly room. (wikisummaries.org)
  • This can be due to non-random segregation during meiosis, but also to processes after meiosis that reduce the transmission of the homologous chromosome. (wikipedia.org)
  • The events of meiotic prophase follow a specialized round of DNA replication when the meiotic chromosome axis is formed. (biorxiv.org)
  • A . Schematic of the bouquet configuration of chromosomes during meiotic prophase I. The spatial arrangement of chromosomes with telomeres clustered and attached at the inner nuclear membrane is shown. (biorxiv.org)
  • While earlier studies had been limited to sex chromosomes because homologous autosomes could not be distinguished, Carothers had found experimental animals in which homologous autosomes could also be partially distinguished. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sex chromosomes evolve once recombination is halted between a homologous pair of chromosomes. (nature.com)
  • The dominant model of sex chromosome evolution posits that recombination is suppressed between emerging X and Y chromosomes in order to resolve sexual conflict. (nature.com)
  • Sex chromosomes are typically thought to evolve as recombination is halted between a homologous pair of chromosomes in one sex. (nature.com)
  • Although we have a detailed understanding of the evolutionary consequences of the loss of recombination for sex chromosome evolution 1 , 2 , we still do not understand the evolutionary forces acting to halt recombination in the first place. (nature.com)
  • The dominant theoretical model for the early stages of sex chromosome evolution 3 , 4 , 5 predicts that recombination will be selected against in the region between a sex determining gene and a nearby locus with alleles of sex-specific effect. (nature.com)
  • Therefore, in this system, current models of sex chromosome evolution predict that recombination would be selected against between the sex determining locus and linked loci involved in colouration. (nature.com)
  • We have shown that this regulation involves the action of a small Recombination Enhancer (RE) sequence that enables a donor on the left chromosome arm to recombine preferentially in MATa cells. (brandeis.edu)
  • However, other mechanisms of disease causation have also been described where (1) a breakpoint disrupts or alters gene expression via a position effect 7 or (2) a cryptic deletion or duplication is identified at the translocation breakpoint. (bmj.com)
  • The deletion occurs on the q arm of the chromosome at a position designated q13.3. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Subject A has a large deletion on chromosome 11 that removes one copy of the BDNF gene. (medscape.com)
  • This process would shrink the pseudoautosomal region in favour of expanding X- and Y-specific regions, creating a male supergene on the Y chromosome containing multiple colouration loci and thereby resolving sexually antagonistic selection. (nature.com)
  • It is still unclear however whether or not such a localized accumulation of condensin at discrete loci has an impact on the condensin-driven reorganization of chromosomes in mitosis. (ens-lyon.fr)
  • En règle générale, un test FISH unique examine seulement un ou quelques chromosomes entiersou des loci spécifiques par diapositive, etc hybridations multiples doivent être menées sur plusieurs diapositives pour couvrir l'ensemble des chromosomes humains. (jove.com)
  • To investigate the possibility that a novel candidate gene for XLMR was disrupted at the X chromosome translocation breakpoint, we mapped the breakpoint using fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH). (bmj.com)
  • We report here that the mouse Xist gene maps to the Xic region of the mouse X chromosome and, using an interspecific Mus spretus/Mus musculus domesticus F1 hybrid mouse carrying the T(X;16)16H translocation, show that Xist is exclusively expressed from the inactive X chromosome. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Replication studies in the mother and daughter showed a skewed X inactivation pattern in lymphocytes, with the normal X chromosome preferentially inactivated. (bmj.com)
  • Mendelian theory originally had nothing to do with chromosomes (Mendel did not know about chromosomes). (wikisummaries.org)
  • By the first decade of the twentieth century, when Mendelian chromosome theories had been suggested, again without much hard evidence, Morgan had considered such theories and rejected them. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Transfer of LS chromosomes between otherwise genetically isolated strains explains the polyphyletic origin of host specificity and the emergence of new pathogenic lineages in F. oxysporum . (nature.com)
  • X-chromosome inactivation in mammals is a regulatory phenomenon whereby one of the two X chromosomes in female cells is genetically inactivated, resulting in dosage compensation for X-linked genes between males and females. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In both man and mouse, X-chromosome inactivation is thought to proceed from a single cis-acting switch region or inactivation centre (XIC/Xic). (ox.ac.uk)
  • Approximately 60-70% of cases of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease result from duplications of the region of the X chromosome that contains PLP1 (caused, it has been proposed, by defective deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA] replication). (medscape.com)
  • In this study, we determined the phylogenetic position of recently defined markers (L127, KL1, KL2, P164, and PK4) in the background of Haplogroup O. In the revised tree, subgroup O3a-M324 is divided into two main subclades, O3a1-L127 and O3a2-P201, covering about 20 and 35% of Han Chinese people, respectively. (molgen.org)
  • Materials and methods: For the dicentric chromosome assay (DCA), blood tubes were located at anthropomorphic phantoms positioned in different geometries and were irradiated with a 1.36 TBq 192 Ir-source. (lu.se)
  • Format of header line is reporterId, chromosome, start, stop, and then the assays with assay names in the header. (lu.se)
  • Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (harvard.edu)
  • 3- 6 Phenotypic abnormalities seen in cases with apparently balanced chromosome rearrangements have usually been explained by the disruption of a gene at the breakpoint causing the loss of gene function. (bmj.com)
  • Protein synthesis is controlled by genes, which are contained on chromosomes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Chromosomes Genes are segments of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that contain the code for a specific protein that functions in one or more types of cells in the body or the code for functional ribonucleic. (msdmanuals.com)
  • One can choose the organism from a drop-down menu (1) e.g Homo sapiens and specify the desired chromosome by clicking at it on grey box on top (2). (lu.se)
  • The numbers and letters express the chromosome set of the chosen organism from the left white box. (lu.se)
  • Chromosome level ordering of the scaffolds was achieved by anchoring the assemblies either to a genetic map for Fv (ref. 7 ), or an optical map for Fol ( Supplementary Information A and Supplementary Table 2 ). (nature.com)
  • An isodicentric chromosome contains mirror-image segments of genetic material and has two constriction points (centromeres), rather than one centromere as in normal chromosomes. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In people with an isodicentric chromosome 15, cells have the usual two copies of chromosome 15 plus the two duplicated copies of the segment of genetic material in the isodicentric chromosome, for a total of four copies of the duplicated segment. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In these cases, cells have two copies of chromosome 15, one of which has an extra copy of the segment of genetic material, for a total of three copies of the duplicated segment. (medlineplus.gov)
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  • At UNIGE, Stylianos Antonarakis's team has the unique opportunity to examine the genomes of two identical twins with the exact same genetic makeup, except for an extra chromosome 21 present in one of them. (unige.ch)
  • This study therefore shows for the first time that the DNA position in the nucleus or the biochemical characteristics of DNA-proteins interactions in the trisomic cells is modified, leading to changes in the gene expression profile. (unige.ch)
  • In aphids, sex determination is mostly done according to the XX/X0 type: females have two X chromosomes, males only one. (wikipedia.org)
  • in gamete development, the X chromosome was contributed by the female (in the gamete), and males contributed either the Y chromosome or no sex chromosome at all. (nanoporetech.com)
  • and an independently segregating Y chromosome was absent in males. (nanoporetech.com)
  • Y genes in female M. oregoni voles have been evolving independently for 150 million years, and Xist is expressed in males to compensate for having a second X chromosome. (nanoporetech.com)
  • We show that although the nascent Y chromosome encompasses nearly half of the linkage group, there has been no perceptible degradation of Y chromosome gene content or activity. (nature.com)
  • There are a number of inner nuclear envelope proteins that may have roles in chromosome location and anchorage, e.g. emerin and A-type lamins. (portlandpress.com)
  • To investigate where these Y genes might be on the X chromosome, they performed amplicon sequencing of Y genes, and discovered that these genes amplified in both sexes. (nanoporetech.com)
  • This gene dpy-21 maps on chomosome V at position +13.19 (interpolated). (nih.gov)
  • This gene him-8 maps on chomosome IV at position +4.85 (interpolated). (nih.gov)
  • Conservation of position and exclusive expression of mouse Xist from the inactive X chromosome. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This puzzle started in the 1960's with the famous cytogeneticist Susumu Ohno, who proposed "Ohno's Law" to explain the conservation of genes and sex chromosomes, including the novel sex chromosome system of the creeping vole. (nanoporetech.com)
  • Their collaborator Scott Roy at San Francisco State University had similar results, with data suggesting a male specific X chromosome. (nanoporetech.com)
  • People with dup15q syndrome resulting from an interstitial duplication often have milder signs and symptoms than those in whom the disorder results from an isodicentric chromosome 15. (medlineplus.gov)
  • These are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 9. (wikipedia.org)
  • The following is a partial list of genes on human chromosome 9. (wikipedia.org)
  • 18- 21 Xq28 is a highly gene rich region of the human X chromosome and we focused on the X chromosome breakpoint as the identification of a disrupted gene here would be a rapid way to identify a further candidate gene for X linked mental retardation within Xq28. (bmj.com)
  • The recently described human XIST gene maps to the XIC region and seems to be expressed only from the inactive X chromosome. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Generally speaking, chromosomes are divided into domains that contain genes with rather similar levels of RNA production. (unige.ch)
  • The highly-conserved SMC complex condensin drives the abrupt and complete reorganization of chromosomes that occurs in early mitosis. (ens-lyon.fr)