title: Radiation hybrid map, physical map, and low-pass genomic sequence of the canine prcd region on CFA9 and comparative mapping with the syntenic region on human chromosome 17.
abstract: Progressive rod-cone degeneration (prcd) is a canine retinal disease that maps to the centromeric end of CFA9 in a region of synteny with the distal part of HSA17q. As such, prcd has been postulated as the only animal model of RP17, a human retinitis pigmentosa locus that maps to 17q22. In an effort to establish more detailed regions of synteny between dog CFA9 and the HSA17q-ter region, we created a robust gene-enriched CFA9-RH08(3000) map with 34 gene-based markers and 12 microsatellites, with the highest resolution and number of markers for the centromeric end of CFA9. Furthermore, we built an approximately 1.5-Mb physical map containing both GRB2 and GALK1, genes so far identified by meiotic linkage analysis as being closest to the prcd locus, and generated about 1.2 Mb low-pass (3.2x) canine sequence. Canine to human comparative sequence analysis identified 49 transcripts that had been previously mapped to the HSA17q25 region. The generated low-pass canine sequence was annotated with a working draft of human sequence from HSA17q25, and we used this scaffold to order and orient the canine sequence against human. This order and orientation are preliminary, as high-throughput genomic sequencing of HSA17q-ter has not been fully completed.
authors.affiliation: James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Sidjanin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kijas
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McElwee
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pillardy
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malek
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Feldblyum
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Acland
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aguirre
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial; D002886:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D021101:Radiation Hybrid Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology; D026801:Synteny