Roles for retrotransposon insertions in human disease

DC Hancks, HH Kazazian - Mobile DNA, 2016 - Springer
Over evolutionary time, the dynamic nature of a genome is driven, in part, by the activity of
transposable elements (TE) such as retrotransposons. On a shorter time scale it has been …

The influence of LINE‐1 and SINE retrotransposons on mammalian genomes

SR Richardson, AJ Doucet, HC Kopera… - Mobile DNA …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) or “jum** genes” historically have been disparaged as a
class of “junk DNA” in mammalian genomes (1, 2). The advent of whole genome DNA …

Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

University of Utah Weiss Robert B. 14 Dunn Diane M … - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine
and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report …

Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome

… Sequencing and Analysis Consortium Waterson Robert … - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Here we present a draft genome sequence of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).
Through comparison with the human genome, we have generated a largely complete …

Comparison of cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes from the mouse and human genomes, including nomenclature recommendations for genes, pseudogenes and …

DR Nelson, DC Zeldin, SMG Hoffman… - Pharmacogenetics …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Completion of both the mouse and human genome sequences in the private and
public sectors has prompted comparison between the two species at multiple levels. This …

LINE-1 elements in structural variation and disease

CR Beck, JL Garcia-Perez, RM Badge… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The completion of the human genome reference sequence ushered in a new era for the
study and discovery of human transposable elements. It now is undeniable that …

A Map of the Interactome Network of the Metazoan C. elegans

S Li, CM Armstrong, N Bertin, H Ge, S Milstein… - Science, 2004 - science.org
To initiate studies on how protein-protein interaction (or “interactome”) networks relate to
multicellular functions, we have mapped a large fraction of the Caenorhabditis elegans …

Pseudogenes: pseudo-functional or key regulators in health and disease?

RC Pink, K Wicks, DP Caley, EK Punch, L Jacobs… - Rna, 2011 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Pseudogenes have long been labeled as “junk” DNA, failed copies of genes that arise
during the evolution of genomes. However, recent results are challenging this moniker; …

Evaluation of candidate control genes for diagnosis and residual disease detection in leukemic patients using 'real-time'quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase …

E Beillard, N Pallisgaard, VHJ Van der Velden, W Bi… - Leukemia, 2003 - nature.com
Real-time quantitative RT-PCR (RQ-PCR) is a sensitive tool to monitor minimal residual
disease (MRD) in leukemic patients through the amplification of a fusion gene (FG) …

The GENCODE pseudogene resource

B Pei, C Sisu, A Frankish, C Howald, L Habegger… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Pseudogenes have long been considered as nonfunctional genomic
sequences. However, recent evidence suggests that many of them might have some form of …