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SUBMITTER: Shibata Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3703515 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shibata Yoshiyuki Y Kumar Pankaj P Layer Ryan R Willcox Smaranda S Gagan Jeffrey R JR Griffith Jack D JD Dutta Anindya A
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120308 6077
We have identified tens of thousands of short extrachromosomal circular DNAs (microDNA) in mouse tissues as well as mouse and human cell lines. These microDNAs are 200 to 400 base pairs long, are derived from unique nonrepetitive sequence, and are enriched in the 5'-untranslated regions of genes, exons, and CpG islands. Chromosomal loci that are enriched sources of microDNA in the adult brain are somatically mosaic for microdeletions that appear to arise from the excision of microDNAs. Germline ...[more]