The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5.
Schmutz J,
Martin J,
Terry A,
Couronne O,
Grimwood J,
Lowry S,
Gordon LA,
Scott D,
Xie G,
Huang W,
Hellsten U,
Tran-Gyamfi M,
She X,
Prabhakar S,
Aerts A,
Altherr M,
Bajorek E,
Black S,
Branscomb E,
Caoile C,
Challacombe JF,
Chan YM,
Denys M,
Detter JC,
Escobar J,
Flowers D,
Fotopulos D,
Glavina T,
Gomez M,
Gonzales E,
Goodstein D,
Grigoriev I,
Groza M,
Hammon N,
Hawkins T,
Haydu L,
Israni S,
Jett J,
Kadner K,
Kimball H,
Kobayashi A,
Lopez F,
Lou Y,
Martinez D,
Medina C,
Morgan J,
Nandkeshwar R,
Noonan JP,
Pitluck S,
Pollard M,
Predki P,
Priest J,
Ramirez L,
Retterer J,
Rodriguez A,
Rogers S,
Salamov A,
Salazar A,
Thayer N,
Tice H,
Tsai M,
Ustaszewska A,
Vo N,
Wheeler J,
Wu K,
Yang J,
Dickson M,
Cheng JF,
Eichler EE,
Olsen A,
Pennacchio LA,
Rokhsar DS,
Richardson P,
Lucas SM,
Myers RM,
Rubin EM.
Stanford Human Genome Center, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 975 California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. jeremy@shgc.stanford.edu
Chromosome 5 is one of the largest human chromosomes and contains numerous intrachromosomal duplications, yet it has one of the lowest gene densities. This is partially explained by numerous gene-poor regions that display a remarkable degree of noncoding conservation with non-mammalian vertebrates, suggesting that they are functionally constrained. In total, we compiled 177.7 million base pairs of highly accurate finished sequence containing 923 manually curated protein-coding genes including the protocadherin and interleukin gene families. We also completely sequenced versions of the large chromosome-5-specific internal duplications. These duplications are very recent evolutionary events and probably have a mechanistic role in human physiological variation, as deletions in these regions are the cause of debilitating disorders including spinal muscular atrophy.
PMID: 15372022 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]