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Nat Genet ; 38(12): 1378-85, 2006 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17072317

RESUMEN

DNA methylation is the most stable type of epigenetic modification modulating the transcriptional plasticity of mammalian genomes. Using bisulfite DNA sequencing, we report high-resolution methylation profiles of human chromosomes 6, 20 and 22, providing a resource of about 1.9 million CpG methylation values derived from 12 different tissues. Analysis of six annotation categories showed that evolutionarily conserved regions are the predominant sites for differential DNA methylation and that a core region surrounding the transcriptional start site is an informative surrogate for promoter methylation. We find that 17% of the 873 analyzed genes are differentially methylated in their 5' UTRs and that about one-third of the differentially methylated 5' UTRs are inversely correlated with transcription. Despite the fact that our study controlled for factors reported to affect DNA methylation such as sex and age, we did not find any significant attributable effects. Our data suggest DNA methylation to be ontogenetically more stable than previously thought.


Asunto(s)
Cromosomas Humanos Par 20/genética , Cromosomas Humanos Par 22/genética , Cromosomas Humanos Par 6/genética , Metilación de ADN , Regiones no Traducidas 5' , Adulto , Factores de Edad , Anciano , Animales , Cromosomas Humanos Par 20/metabolismo , Cromosomas Humanos Par 22/metabolismo , Cromosomas Humanos Par 6/metabolismo , Islas de CpG , Epigénesis Genética , Evolución Molecular , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Ratones , Persona de Mediana Edad , Especificidad de Órganos , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Caracteres Sexuales , Especificidad de la Especie , Transcripción Genética
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Am J Hum Genet ; 84(4): 524-33, 2009 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19344873

RESUMEN

Many patients suffering from developmental disorders harbor submicroscopic deletions or duplications that, by affecting the copy number of dosage-sensitive genes or disrupting normal gene expression, lead to disease. However, many aberrations are novel or extremely rare, making clinical interpretation problematic and genotype-phenotype correlations uncertain. Identification of patients sharing a genomic rearrangement and having phenotypic features in common leads to greater certainty in the pathogenic nature of the rearrangement and enables new syndromes to be defined. To facilitate the analysis of these rare events, we have developed an interactive web-based database called DECIPHER (Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans Using Ensembl Resources) which incorporates a suite of tools designed to aid the interpretation of submicroscopic chromosomal imbalance, inversions, and translocations. DECIPHER catalogs common copy-number changes in normal populations and thus, by exclusion, enables changes that are novel and potentially pathogenic to be identified. DECIPHER enhances genetic counseling by retrieving relevant information from a variety of bioinformatics resources. Known and predicted genes within an aberration are listed in the DECIPHER patient report, and genes of recognized clinical importance are highlighted and prioritized. DECIPHER enables clinical scientists worldwide to maintain records of phenotype and chromosome rearrangement for their patients and, with informed consent, share this information with the wider clinical research community through display in the genome browser Ensembl. By sharing cases worldwide, clusters of rare cases having phenotype and structural rearrangement in common can be identified, leading to the delineation of new syndromes and furthering understanding of gene function.


Asunto(s)
Aberraciones Cromosómicas , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Adulto , Niño , Preescolar , Hibridación Genómica Comparativa , Biología Computacional , Femenino , Dosificación de Gen , Genes Dominantes , Genoma Humano , Humanos , Internet , Masculino , Fenotipo , Síndrome
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Bioinformatics ; 23(12): 1568-70, 2007 Jun 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17237073

RESUMEN

SUMMARY: The increasing size and complexity of biological databases has led to a growing trend to federate rather than duplicate them. In order to share data between federated databases, protocols for the exchange mechanism must be developed. One such data exchange protocol that is widely used is the Distributed Annotation System (DAS). For example, DAS has enabled small experimental groups to integrate their data into the Ensembl genome browser. We have developed ProServer, a simple, lightweight, Perl-based DAS server that does not depend on a separate HTTP server. The ProServer package is easily extensible, allowing data to be served from almost any underlying data model. Recent additions to the DAS protocol have enabled both structure and alignment (sequence and structural) data to be exchanged. ProServer allows both of these data types to be served. AVAILABILITY: ProServer can be downloaded from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/proserver/ or CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~rpettett/. Details on the system requirements and installation of ProServer can be found at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/proserver/.


Asunto(s)
Biología Computacional/métodos , Redes de Comunicación de Computadores , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Genoma Humano , Humanos , Internet , Lenguajes de Programación , Análisis de Secuencia de Proteína , Programas Informáticos , Relación Estructura-Actividad
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Genome Res ; 14(5): 925-8, 2004 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15078858

RESUMEN

Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) is a bioinformatics project to organize biological information around the sequences of large genomes. It is a comprehensive source of stable automatic annotation of individual genomes, and of the synteny and orthology relationships between them. It is also a framework for integration of any biological data that can be mapped onto features derived from the genomic sequence. Ensembl is available as an interactive Web site, a set of flat files, and as a complete, portable open source software system for handling genomes. All data are provided without restriction, and code is freely available. Ensembl's aims are to continue to "widen" this biological integration to include other model organisms relevant to understanding human biology as they become available; to "deepen" this integration to provide an ever more seamless linkage between equivalent components in different species; and to provide further classification of functional elements in the genome that have been previously elusive.


Asunto(s)
Biología Computacional/tendencias
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