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Watch out for aneuploidy
Genome Biology volume 1, Article number: spotlight-20000629-01 (2000)
In an analysis of both new and old microarray data in the July Nature Genetics, Hughes et al. find that results are frequently skewed by aneuploidy (Nat. Gen. 2000, 25:333-337). Their first clue was an unexpected transcript profile similarity between two unrelated yeast mutants; the cause turned out to be an extra copy of an entire chromosome. Approximately 8% of the yeast mutants examined had chromosome-wide expression biases, even though most of these mutants are not known to have chromosome transmission defects. In five cases a gained chromosome had a close homologue of the deleted gene, and in two cases a growth advantage was demonstrated.
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Nature genetics, [http://www.nature.com/ng/]
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Wells, W. Watch out for aneuploidy. Genome Biol 1, spotlight-20000629-01 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-spotlight-20000629-01
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-spotlight-20000629-01
Keywords
- Microarray Data
- Profile Similarity
- Close Homologue
- Growth Advantage
- Transcript Profile