• Tandem repeats are unstable regions of the genome where frequent insertions and deletions of nucleotides can take place, resulting in genome rearrangements. (wikipedia.org)
  • Short tandem repeats (STRs) compose approximately 3% of the genome, and mutations at STR loci have been linked to dozens of human diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Friedreich ataxia, Huntington disease, and fragile X syndrome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Improving our understanding of these mutations would increase our knowledge of the mutational dynamics of the genome and may uncover additional loci that contribute to disease. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To estimate the genome-wide pattern of mutations at STR loci, we analyze blood-derived whole-genome sequencing data for 544 individuals from 29 three-generation CEPH pedigrees. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Approximately 30% of new STR mutations occur within Alu elements, which compose only 11% of the genome, but only 10% are found in LINE-1 insertions, which compose 17% of the genome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We estimate the average number of de novo genome-wide STR mutations per individual to be approximately 85, which is similar to the average number of observed de novo single nucleotide variants. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some of these tools are designed to detect STR expansions at disease-related loci, while others detect expansions and contractions of STRs genome-wide but are constrained by sequencing read length and the STR motif size. (biomedcentral.com)
  • New technologies such as next-generation sequencing (including whole exome or whole genome sequencing) are expanding testing options, discovering new mutations, and creating challenges in counseling, interpreting, and reporting results to the patient. (medlink.com)
  • The advent of massively parallel sequencing technologies [ 8 ] allowed cheap and efficient evaluation of the somatic mutations in a cancer genome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine somatic mutational patterns by sequencing multiple cancer-associated genes, by sequencing all coding regions of the human genome (i.e., usually referred to as whole-exome sequencing), or even by interrogating the complete sequence of a cancer genome (i.e., an approach known as whole-genome sequencing). (biomedcentral.com)
  • We report these two new plastid genome sequences and make comparisons (within angiosperms, seed plants, or all photosynthetic lineages) to evaluate features such as the status of ycf15 and ycf68 as protein coding genes, the distribution of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and longer dispersed repeats (SDR), and patterns of nucleotide composition. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the majority of angiosperm chloroplast genomes two copies of a large inverted repeat (IR) of about 25 kb separate the remainder of the genome into two regions of unique DNA, the large (about 90 kb) and small (about 20 kb) single copy regions (LSC and SSC, respectively). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is a dominantly inherited multisystemic disease caused by CTG tandem repeat expansions in the DMPK 3' untranslated region. (bvsalud.org)
  • Genomic regions with a high proportion of repeated DNA sequences (tandem repeats, microsatellites) are prone to strand slippage during DNA replication and DNA repair. (wikipedia.org)
  • SSRs occur less frequently than predicted and, although the majority of the repeat motifs do include A and T nucleotides, the A+T bias in SSRs is less than that predicted from the underlying genomic nucleotide composition. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To profile genomic and epigenomic of a naïve Chinese non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cohort and investigate the association between tumor mutation burden (TMB) and DNA methylation (DNAm) to explore potential alternative/complimentary biomarkers for NSCLC immunotherapies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Within DNA trinucleotide repeat sequences, the repair of DNA damage by the processes of homologous recombination, non-homologous end joining, DNA mismatch repair or base excision repair may involve strand slippage mispairing leading to trinucleotide repeat expansion when the repair is completed. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is possible that each of these mechanisms contributes to the high mutation rate of STRs, but strand slippage is the mechanism proposed for generating most observed mutations in STR loci [ 19 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The HD gene is found in all human genomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • of tandem repeats within their genomes [6, 17]. (scirp.org)
  • Cancer genomes are peppered with somatic mutations imprinted by different mutational processes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Nuphar [GenBank:NC_008788] and Ranunculus [GenBank:NC_008796] plastid genomes share characteristics of gene content and organization with many other chloroplast genomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Like other plastid genomes, these genomes are A+T-rich, except for rRNA and tRNA genes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In broader comparisons, SSRs vary among genomes in terms of abundance and length and most contain repeat motifs based on A and T nucleotides. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These include spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy ( trinucleotide expansion in the AR gene), dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy ( trinucleotide expansion in the DRPLA gene), spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 ( trinucleotide expansion in the SCA1gene), Machado-Joseph disease ( trinucleotide expansion in the SCA3 gene), myotonic dystrophy ( trinucleotide expansion in the DMPK gene), and Friedreich's ataxia ( a trinuncleotide expansion in the X25 gene). (wikipedia.org)
  • To address the molecular and cellular events that lead to these pathological outcomes, we recently generated a mouse Dmpk CTG expansion knock-in model and identified choroid plexus epithelial cells as particularly affected by the expression of toxic CUG expansion RNAs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Slipped strand mispairing (SSM, also known as replication slippage) is a mutation process which occurs during DNA replication. (wikipedia.org)
  • A slippage event normally occurs when a sequence of repetitive nucleotides (tandem repeats) are found at the site of replication. (wikipedia.org)
  • When DNA polymerase encounters a direct repeat, it can undergo a replication slippage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Slippage occurs through five main stages: In the first step, DNA polymerase encounters the direct repeat during the replication process. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tandem repeats (the main influence for slippage replication) can be found in coding and non-coding regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the event that a slippage event occurs there can be a large expansion in the tandem repeats of the HD gene. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, replication slippage leads to a form of trinucleotide expansion which results in serious changes to protein structure. (wikipedia.org)
  • Analyzing approximately 1.6 million STR loci, we estimate the empirical de novo STR mutation rate to be 5.24 × 10 −5 mutations per locus per generation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Due to the repetitive structure of STRs and their high mutability, sequencing and genotyping these loci is difficult, especially using short-read sequencing data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The final consensus maps are based on 1578 microsatellite loci and these maps have a cumulative length of approximately 1400 cM after adjustment for recombination frequencies of RI strains. (nervenet.org)
  • Next-generation sequencing of the whole exome is useful for testing for multiple candidate genes simultaneously or for discovering new, rare disorders. (medlink.com)
  • METHOD: Mutation screening of positional candidate genes was performed in two stages. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • The first stage involved identifying, in unrelated subjects showing linkage to 2q24-q33, genetic variants in exons and flanking sequence within candidate genes and comparing the frequency of the variants between autistic and unrelated nonautistic subjects. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • An individual who is not affected by Huntington's disease will have 6-35 tandem repeats at the HD locus. (wikipedia.org)
  • The expansion of the HD locus results in a dysfunctional protein leading to Huntington's disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • 21 allelic mutations have been discovered in the APP gene. (findzebra.com)
  • We found that population turnover after 2003 led to a loss of allelic richness and gene diversity but not to significant changes in observed heterozygosity. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In recently bottlenecked populations not yet in mutation-drift equilibrium, a transient (lasting only a few generations) excess of heterozygosity can occur because allelic diversity is reduced faster than heterozygosity [ 11 - 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The genes/mutations could act alone or interact with other genetic and/or epigenetic or environmental factors, causing autism or related disorders. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • The natural populations from China with specific genetic characteristics enriched the gene pools of global A. thaliana collections. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Genetic mutations that result in loss of RecQ helicase activity gives rise to disorders that are associated with CANCER predisposition and premature aging. (lookformedical.com)
  • Further studies are needed to determine if recovery from this perturbation through gradual mixing of diverged populations by migration and gene flow leads to the pre-climate event state, or whether the observed changes represent a new genetic equilibrium. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In contrast, interactions between genes and the environment cannot usually be studied using conventional mapping populations in which each animal is unique. (nervenet.org)
  • We hypothesize that there might be at least three types of autism susceptibility genes/mutations that can be (i) specific to an individual patient or family, (ii) in a genetically isolated sub-population and (iii) a common factor shared amongst different populations. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • These populations originated from a common ancestor, and a rapid demographic expansion began approximately 90,000 years ago. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Slatkin [ 4 ] argued that local extinction and re-colonisation dynamics imply ongoing gene flow, which will prevent local populations from becoming differentiated. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The pattern of evolution in the sequences identified as ycf15 and ycf68 is not consistent with them being protein-coding genes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Nucleotide excision repair proteins are mobilized to this area where one likely outcome is the expansion of nucleotides in the template strand while the other is the absence of nucleotides. (wikipedia.org)
  • Short tandem repeats (STRs), or microsatellites, are 1-6 base pair (bp) motifs of repeating units of DNA. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Whole exome sequencing is not suitable for detecting polynucleotide repeat disorders or large insertion/deletions. (medlink.com)
  • Insertions are thought to be self-accelerating: as repeats grow longer, the probability of subsequent mispairing events increases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Insertions can expand simple tandem repeats by one or more units. (wikipedia.org)
  • These guarantee onset of early-onset familial Alzheimer disease and all occur in the region of the APP gene that encodes the Aβ domain. (findzebra.com)
  • The Bloom syndrome gene (BLM) encodes a RecQ-like DNA helicase. (lookformedical.com)
  • If these repeats are found in coding regions then the variations to the polynucleotide sequence can result in the formation of abnormal proteins in eukaryotes. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, insertion of a single repeat unit in GAGAGA expands the sequence to GAGAGAGA, while insertion of two repeat units in [GA]6 would produce [GA]8. (wikipedia.org)
  • This subtype is due to a mutation in the APP gene (21q21.2), encoding the beta-amyloid precursor protein. (findzebra.com)
  • It is structurally different from TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 1 in that it contains basic N-terminal amino acid residues. (lookformedical.com)
  • Proteins that catalyze the unwinding of duplex DNA during replication by binding cooperatively to single-stranded regions of DNA or to short regions of duplex DNA that are undergoing transient opening. (lookformedical.com)
  • An abnormal congenital condition, associated with defects in the LAMIN TYPE A gene, which is characterized by premature aging in children, where all the changes of cell senescence occur. (lookformedical.com)
  • It is a form of mutation that leads to either a trinucleotide or dinucleotide expansion, or sometimes contraction, during DNA replication. (wikipedia.org)
  • DNA polymerase reassembles its position on the template strand and resumes normal replication, but during the course of reassembling, the polymerase complex backtracks and repeats the insertion of deoxyribonucleotides that were previously added. (wikipedia.org)
  • Injuries to DNA that introduce deviations from its normal, intact structure and which may, if left unrepaired, result in a MUTATION or a block of DNA REPLICATION. (lookformedical.com)
  • This results in some repeats found in the template strand being replicated twice into the daughter strand. (wikipedia.org)
  • the background rate of point mutations [2]. (scirp.org)
  • However, an affected individual will have 36- 121 repeats present. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the present study, genes across the 2q24-q33 interval were analyzed to identify an autism susceptibility gene in this region. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • from the mutation of a single gene. (scirp.org)
  • Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that showed evidence for divergent distribution between autistic and nonautistic subjects were identified, both within SLC25A12, a gene encoding the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier (AGC1). (neurotransmitter.net)
  • While the tool provides a comprehensive classification of mutations, SigProfilerMatrixGenerator is also faster and more memory efficient than existing tools that generate only a single matrix. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although trinucleotide contraction is possible, trinucleotide expansion occurs more frequently. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tumor mutation burden (TMB) has been proved to be effective in differentiating responding population of ICI therapies in multiple clinical studies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients in the low ( n = 30), medium ( n = 29), and high ( n = 30) TMB tertiles had 1.1-2.5, 2.5-4.1, and 4.2-13.9 mutations/Mb, respectively. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Relatively high TMB group ( n = 16, 7.5-13.9 mutations/Mb) harbors more differential DMPs while less in relatively low TMB group ( n = 13, 1.1-2.4 mutations/Mb). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In addition, 437 genes show DNAm aberrance status in high TMB patient group and 99 have been reported as its association with lung cancer. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Negative association findings and research involving the serotonin transporter gene, FMR1, RELN, WNT2, HOXA1, and HOXB1 genes may be found elsewhere on this site . (neurotransmitter.net)
  • Many human diseases have been reported to be associated with trinucleotide repeat expansions including Huntington's disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • In long repeats, expansions may involve two or more units. (wikipedia.org)
  • Perfect repeats mutate about 2 × more often than imperfect repeats. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ease or are within disease genes. (scirp.org)
  • In this study we have increased the density of microsatellite markers 2- to 5-fold in each of several major RI sets that share C57BL/6 as a parental strain (AXB, BXA, BXD, BXH, and CXB). (nervenet.org)
  • We use HipSTR to identify de novo STR mutations in the 2nd generation of these pedigrees and require transmission to the third generation for validation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Linkage and association of the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier SLC25A12 gene with autism. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • CONCLUSIONS: A strong association of autism with SNPs within the SLC25A12 gene was demonstrated. (neurotransmitter.net)
  • Phasing these mutations to the parent of origin shows that parental transmission biases vary among families. (biomedcentral.com)