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Nat Genet. 2005 Jul;37(7):660-1.
Fine-scale structural variation of the human genome.
Tuzun E,
Sharp AJ,
Bailey JA,
Kaul R,
Morrison VA,
Pertz LM,
Haugen E,
Hayden H,
Albertson D,
Pinkel D,
Olson MV,
Eichler EE.
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. eee@gs.washington.edu
Inversions, deletions and insertions are important mediators of disease and disease susceptibility. We systematically compared the human genome reference sequence with a second genome (represented by fosmid paired-end sequences) to detect intermediate-sized structural variants >8 kb in length. We identified 297 sites of structural variation: 139 insertions, 102 deletions and 56 inversion breakpoints. Using combined literature, sequence and experimental analyses, we validated 112 of the structural variants, including several that are of biomedical relevance. These data provide a fine-scale structural variation map of the human genome and the requisite sequence precision for subsequent genetic studies of human disease.
PMID: 15895083 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]