Project description:Deletions and amplifications of the human genomic sequence (Copy Number Polymorphisms, or 'CNPs') are the cause for numerous diseases and a potential cause of phenotypic variation in the normal population. Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) has been developed as a useful tool for detecting alterations in DNA copy number that involve blocks of DNA several kilobases or greater in size. We have developed High-Resolution CGH (HR-CGH) to detect accurately and with relatively little bias the presence and extent of chromosomal aberrations in human DNA. Maskless array synthesis was used to construct arrays containing 393,000 oligonucleotides with isothermal probes of 45-85 bp in length; arrays tiling the β-globin locus and chromosome 22q were prepared. Arrays with 9 bp tiling path were used to map a 622 bp heterozygous deletion in the β-globin locus. Arrays with an 85 bp tiling path were used to analyze DNA from patients with copy number changes in the pericentromeric region of chromosome 22. Heterozygous deletions and duplications as well as partial triploidies and partial tetraploidies of portions of chromosome 22q were mapped with high resolution in each patient, and the precise breakpoint of two deletions was confirmed by DNA sequencing. Additional peaks potentially corresponding to known and novel additional CNPs were also observed. Our results demonstrate that HR-CGH allows the detection of copy-number changes in any given region of the human genome comprehensively and at an unprecedented level of resolution. Keywords: high resolution comparative genome hybridization (HR-CGH)
Project description:HighRes-CGH arrays that utilize ≈385,000 distinct oligonucleotide probes to cover chromosome 22 at 85 bp resolution (tiling path step size) were designed and synthesized as previously described (Urban et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006;103(12):4534-9; see also GSE4240 record). Here, two healthy individuals were studied using the same experimental protocols as in Urban et al. Keywords: high-resolution comparative genome hybridization using oligonucleotides
Project description:This experiment was designed to identify transcribed regions of indica rice genome. A series of high-density oligonucleotide tiling arrays that represent sense and antisense strands of the entire nonrepetitive sequence of the chromosome were used to measure transcriptional activities. A total of 838,816 36mer oligonucleotide probes, positioned every 46 nt on average, were designed to interrogate the indica genome, respectively. The probes were synthesized via maskless photolithography at a feature density of approximately 389,000 probes per slide. The arrays were hybridized with fluorescence-labeled cDNA reverse-transcribed from equal amounts of four selected poly(A)+ RNA populations, namely, seedling roots, seedling shoots, panicles, and suspension cultured cells of the respective rice subspecies. Keywords: genome tiling experiments
Project description:This experiment was designed to identify transcribed regions of both japonica and indica rice chromosome 10. A series of high-density oligonucleotide tiling arrays that represent sense and antisense strands of the entire nonrepetitive sequence of the chromosome were used to measure transcriptional activities. A total of 750,282 and 838,816 36mer oligonucleotide probes, positioned every 46 nt on average, were designed to interrogating the japonica and the indica chromosome, respectively. The probes were synthesized via maskless photolithography at a feature density of approximately 389,000 probes per slide. The arrays were hybridized with fluorescence-labeled cDNA reverse-transcribed from equal amounts of four selected poly(A)+ RNA populations, namely, seedling roots, seedling shoots, panicles, and suspension cultured cells of the respective rice subspecies. Keywords: other
Project description:Copy number variations and genomic rearrangements in the CFH-CFHRs region were assessed with a custom-designed high-density 8x15k oligonucleotide CGH arrays spanning the RCA gene cluster region in human chromosome 1q32 (median resolution of 110 bp) (AMADID 040193, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). A healthy male donor sample, fully genotyped for that region, was used as hybridization control. Microarray data were extracted and visualized using the Feature Extraction Software v10.7 and Genomic Workbench Standard Edition 7.0 (Agilent Corp, Santa Clara, CA). Copy number altered regions were detected using ADM-2 (set as 5) statistic provided by DNA Analytics, with a minimum number of 5 consecutive probes. Genomic build hg19 was used for the experiment.
Project description:Screening for gene copy-number alterations (CNAs) has improved by applying genome-wide microarrays, where SNP arrays also allow analysis of loss of heterozygozity (LOH). We here analyzed 10 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples using four different high-resolution platforms: BAC arrays (32K), oligonucleotide arrays (185K, Agilent), and two SNP arrays (250K, Affymetrix and 317K, Illumina). Cross-platform comparison revealed 29 concordantly detected CNAs, including known recurrent alterations, which confirmed that all platforms are powerful tools when screening for large aberrations. However, detection of 32 additional regions present in 2-3 platforms illustrated a discrepancy in detection of small CNAs, which often involved reported copy-number variations. LOH analysis revealed concordance of mainly large regions, but showed numerous, small nonoverlapping regions and LOH escaping detection. Evaluation of baseline variation and copy-number ratio response showed the best performance for the Agilent platform and confirmed the robustness of BAC arrays. Accordingly, these platforms demonstrated a higher degree of platform-specific CNAs. The SNP arrays displayed higher technical variation, although this was compensated by high density of elements. Affymetrix detected a higher degree of CNAs compared to Illumina, while the latter showed a lower noise level and higher detection rate in the LOH analysis. Large-scale studies of genomic aberrations are now feasible, but new tools for LOH analysis are requested. 10 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples was analyzed using four different high-resolution platforms: 32K BAC arrays, 185K Agilent oligonucleotide arrays, 250K Affymetrix SNP arrays and 317K Illumina SNP arrays.
Project description:CGH profiles of prostate tumors on custom designed high resolution arrays tiling chromosome 5q21 A custom high-density Agilent 15k CGH array tiling 5q21 was designed to narrow down the region of deletion at 5q21 to a few genes that could be followed up with functional studies. 8 critical prostate tumors samples with the most focal regions of deletion were chosen to be profiled on the 5q21 tiling array.
Project description:Screening for gene copy-number alterations (CNAs) has improved by applying genome-wide microarrays, where SNP arrays also allow analysis of loss of heterozygozity (LOH). We here analyzed 10 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples using four different high-resolution platforms: BAC arrays (32K), oligonucleotide arrays (185K, Agilent), and two SNP arrays (250K, Affymetrix and 317K, Illumina). Cross-platform comparison revealed 29 concordantly detected CNAs, including known recurrent alterations, which confirmed that all platforms are powerful tools when screening for large aberrations. However, detection of 32 additional regions present in 2-3 platforms illustrated a discrepancy in detection of small CNAs, which often involved reported copy-number variations. LOH analysis revealed concordance of mainly large regions, but showed numerous, small nonoverlapping regions and LOH escaping detection. Evaluation of baseline variation and copy-number ratio response showed the best performance for the Agilent platform and confirmed the robustness of BAC arrays. Accordingly, these platforms demonstrated a higher degree of platform-specific CNAs. The SNP arrays displayed higher technical variation, although this was compensated by high density of elements. Affymetrix detected a higher degree of CNAs compared to Illumina, while the latter showed a lower noise level and higher detection rate in the LOH analysis. Large-scale studies of genomic aberrations are now feasible, but new tools for LOH analysis are requested.
Project description:HighRes-CGH arrays that utilize â385,000 distinct oligonucleotide probes to cover chromosome 22 at 85 bp resolution (tiling path step size) were designed and synthesized as previously described (Urban et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006;103(12):4534-9; see also GSE4240 record). Here, two healthy individuals were studied using the same experimental protocols as in Urban et al. See above, same as in Urban et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006;103(12):4534-9; see also GSE4240 record. The overall goal of the study was the detection of the precise boundaries of deletions and amplifications. Maskless array synthesis was used to construct custom isothermal arrays containing up to 385,000 oligonucleotides, tiling the non-repetitive regions of chromosome 22. Genomic DNA isolated from patients (Cy3) was co-hybridized with a reference DNA pool (Promega; Cy5).