Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2004

The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain. The sequence represents a high-quality ‘draft’ covering over 90% of the genome. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution. This first comprehensive analysis includes genes and proteins and their relation to human disease, repeated sequences, comparative genome-wide studies of mammalian orthologous chromosomal regions and rearrangement breakpoints, reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes and the events leading to existing species, rates of variation, and lineage-specific and lineageindependent evolutionary events such as expansion of gene families, orthology relations and protein evolution.

Författare

Marina Alexandersson

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Institutionen för matematisk statistik

Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium

Nature

0028-0836 (ISSN) 1476-4687 (eISSN)

Vol. 428 6982 493-521

Ämneskategorier

Cellbiologi

Biokemi och molekylärbiologi

Bioinformatik och systembiologi

Sannolikhetsteori och statistik

Genetik

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