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SNP discovery by mismatch-targeting of Mu transposition




TekijätOrsini L, Pajunen M, Hanski I, Savilahti H

KustantajaOXFORD UNIV PRESS

Julkaisuvuosi2007

Lehti:Nucleic Acids Research

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiNUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Lehden akronyymiNUCLEIC ACIDS RES

Artikkelin numeroARTN e44

Vuosikerta35

Numero6

Sivujen määrä8

ISSN0305-1048

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm070


Tiivistelmä
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) represent a valuable resource for the mapping of human disease genes and induced mutations in model organisms. SNPs may become the markers of choice also for population ecology and evolutionary studies, but their isolation for non-model organisms with unsequenced genomes is often difficult. Here, we describe a rapid and cost-effective strategy to isolate SNPs that exploits the property of the bacteriophage Mu transposition machinery to target mismatched DNA sites and thereby to effectively detect polymorphic loci. To demonstrate the methodology, we isolated 164 SNPs from the unsequenced genome of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia), a much-studied species in population biology, and we validated 24 of them. The strategy involves standard molecular biology techniques as well as undemanding MuA transposase-catalyzed in vitro transposition reactions, and it is applicable to any organism.



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