The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7.
Hillier LW,
Fulton RS,
Fulton LA,
Graves TA,
Pepin KH,
Wagner-McPherson C,
Layman D,
Maas J,
Jaeger S,
Walker R,
Wylie K,
Sekhon M,
Becker MC,
O'Laughlin MD,
Schaller ME,
Fewell GA,
Delehaunty KD,
Miner TL,
Nash WE,
Cordes M,
Du H,
Sun H,
Edwards J,
Bradshaw-Cordum H,
Ali J,
Andrews S,
Isak A,
Vanbrunt A,
Nguyen C,
Du F,
Lamar B,
Courtney L,
Kalicki J,
Ozersky P,
Bielicki L,
Scott K,
Holmes A,
Harkins R,
Harris A,
Strong CM,
Hou S,
Tomlinson C,
Dauphin-Kohlberg S,
Kozlowicz-Reilly A,
Leonard S,
Rohlfing T,
Rock SM,
Tin-Wollam AM,
Abbott A,
Minx P,
Maupin R,
Strowmatt C,
Latreille P,
Miller N,
Johnson D,
Murray J,
Woessner JP,
Wendl MC,
Yang SP,
Schultz BR,
Wallis JW,
Spieth J,
Bieri TA,
Nelson JO,
Berkowicz N,
Wohldmann PE,
Cook LL,
Hickenbotham MT,
Eldred J,
Williams D,
Bedell JA,
Mardis ER,
Clifton SW,
Chissoe SL,
Marra MA,
Raymond C,
Haugen E,
Gillett W,
Zhou Y,
James R,
Phelps K,
Iadanoto S,
Bubb K,
Simms E,
Levy R,
Clendenning J,
Kaul R,
Kent WJ,
Furey TS,
Baertsch RA,
Brent MR,
Keibler E,
Flicek P,
Bork P,
Suyama M,
Bailey JA,
Portnoy ME,
Torrents D,
Chinwalla AT,
Gish WR,
Eddy SR,
McPherson JD,
Olson MV,
Eichler EE,
Green ED,
Waterston RH,
Wilson RK.
Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA.
Human chromosome 7 has historically received prominent attention in the human genetics community, primarily related to the search for the cystic fibrosis gene and the frequent cytogenetic changes associated with various forms of cancer. Here we present more than 153 million base pairs representing 99.4% of the euchromatic sequence of chromosome 7, the first metacentric chromosome completed so far. The sequence has excellent concordance with previously established physical and genetic maps, and it exhibits an unusual amount of segmentally duplicated sequence (8.2%), with marked differences between the two arms. Our initial analyses have identified 1,150 protein-coding genes, 605 of which have been confirmed by complementary DNA sequences, and an additional 941 pseudogenes. Of genes confirmed by transcript sequences, some are polymorphic for mutations that disrupt the reading frame.
PMID: 12853948 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]