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Type: Journal article
Title: Four-Hundred Million Years of Conserved Synteny of Human Xp and Xq Genes on Three Tetraodon Chromosomes
Author: Grutzner, F.
Crollius, H.
Lutjens, G.
Weissenbach, J.
Ropers, H.
Haaf, T.
Citation: Genome Research, 2002; 12(9):1316-1322
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press
Issue Date: 2002
ISSN: 1088-9051
1549-5469
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Frank Grutzner, Hugues Roest Crollius, Gotz Lutjens, Olivier Jaillon, Jean Weissenbach, Hans-Hilger Ropers, and Thomas Haaf
Abstract: The freshwater pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis (TNI) has become highly attractive as a compact reference vertebrate genome for gene finding and validation. We have mapped genes, which are more or less evenly spaced on the human chromosomes 9 and X, on Tetraodon chromosomes using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), to establish syntenic relationships between Tetraodon and other key vertebrate genomes. PufferFISH revealed that the human X is an orthologous mosaic of three Tetraodon chromosomes. More than 350 million years ago, an ancestral vertebrate autosome shared orthologous Xp and Xq genes with Tetraodon chromosomes 1 and 7. The shuffled order of Xp and Xq orthologs on their syntenic Tetraodon chromosomes can be explained by the prevalence of evolutionary inversions. The Tetraodon 2 orthologous genes are clustered in human Xp11 and represent a recent addition to the eutherian X sex chromosome. The human chromosome 9 and the avian Z sex chromosome show a much lower degree of synteny conservation in the pufferfish than the human X chromosome. We propose that a special selection process during vertebrate evolution has shaped a highly conserved array(s) of X-linked genes long before the X was used as a mammalian sex chromosome and many X chromosomal genes were recruited for reproduction and/or the development of cognitive abilities.
Keywords: Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
X Chromosome
Animals
Chickens
Tetraodontiformes
Humans
DNA
Genetic Markers
Evolution, Molecular
Conserved Sequence
Synteny
Genes
Molecular Sequence Data
Description: Copyright ©2002 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.222402
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.222402
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