Cynomolgus monkey testicular cDNAs for discovery of novel human genes in the human genome sequence

Naoki Osada^1,2 , Munetomo Hida³ , Jun Kusuda¹ , Reiko Tanuma¹ , Makoto Hirata¹ , Yumiko Suto² , Momoki Hirai² , Keiji Terao⁴ , Sumio Sugano³ and Katsuyuki Hashimoto¹

¹Division of Genetic Resources, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama-cho, Shinjuku-ku, 162-8640, Japan

²Laboratory of human evolution, Depertment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan

³Department of Genome Structure Analysis, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan

⁴Tsukuba Primate Center For Medical Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Hachimandai-1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-0843, Japan