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Lecture 1 Human Genome
Week 1a
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 4
01/24/2010

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Term

Sanger Sequencing

 

indel

 

SNP?

 

throughput: How many bases per day?

 

What is the read length?

Definition

 

indel = purposely deleted sections

 

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

 

35,000

 

1000

Term

 

454 Sequencing (new)

 

Base reads?

 

Reads per run?

 

Bases per run?

 

How long does it take?

Definition

 

 

200-400 base reads

 

200,000 reads per run

 

100,000,000 bases per run

 

1 day

Term

 

Solexa Sequencing (new)

 

How many bases per run

 

How many base reads

 

Paired-end mode

 

How much $$$ per run

Definition

 

 

20,000,000 bases per run

 

76-100 base reads

 

Paired-end mode

 

$4,000 per run

Term

 

 

 


Two Strategies for Human Genome Sequencing

Definition

 

 

 

 

1. Mapped Clones

 

2. Whole Genome Shotgun

Term

 

Repeating Sequences

 

LINEs


SINEs

 

Retro-Virus-Like Elements

 

DNA transposon fossils

Definition
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Term

 

 

 

Transposons

 

Class 1

 

Class 2

Definition

 

Transposons: sequences that can move around a genome

(jumping genes)

 

Class 1: retrotransposons: makes RNA that is inserted into DNA by reverse transcriptaase

 

Class 2: DNA transposons that are inserted into DNA by transposases

Term

 

Gene Data (Human)

 

What percent code for genes?

 

What percent codes for proteins?

 

How many genes? Human, Fly, and Worm

Definition

 

 

4-5% for genes

 

1-2% for proteins

 

Human: 20,000

Fly: 13,000

Worm: 18,000

Term

 

Yeast Genome

 

# chromosomes

# genes

What % of genome are genes

___ gene every ____ bases

____ ribosomal RNA genes in _______

____ transfer RNAs

___ of gene have introns

Definition

 

16 Chromosomes

6000 Genes

70% of genome is genes

1 gene per 2000 bases

140 ribosomal RNA

(tandem = repeated sections to insure contiguous and continuous transcription)

275 transfer RNA

4% of gene have introns

Term

 

Telomeres

 

regions that contain _____

 

These may be associated with _______

Definition

 

 

 

contain Ty5

 

transposons

Term

 

Escherichia Coli

 

Gram Neg/Pos?

# bases

Genes are organized into ______

# of the above?

 

____ genes, distance?

genes account for ___% of genome

What % involved in regulatory function?

Definition

 

 

Gram neg

4,600,000

organized into operons

2600 operons

 

4200 genes, 118 bases per gene

Genes account for 87% of genome

Only 11% is involved in regulatory function

 

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