BMC Genomics

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CAG-encoded polyglutamine length polymorphism in the human genome

Stefanie L Butland1, Rebecca S Devon2, Yong Huang1, Carri-Lyn Mead1, Alison M Meynert1, Scott J Neal2, Soo S Lee1, Anna Wilkinson1, George S Yang3, Macaire MS Yuen1, Michael R Hayden2,4, Robert A Holt3,5, Blair R Leavitt2,4 and BF Francis Ouellette1,4*

Author Affiliations

1 UBC Bioinformatics Centre, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2 Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

3 Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada

4 Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

5 Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:126 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-126

Published: 22 May 2007

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Ethnic composition of control population.

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Additional file 2:

Allele length distributions in a normal population for 64 polyglutamine-encoding CAG trinucleotide repeat targets (A) – (BL). This multi-page document provides plots of allele frequency distributions.

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Genes in over-represented GO terms under Biological Process. For each over-represented GO term and its GO ID, this document lists the CAGpolyQ repeat-containing genes that were annotated with that GO term.

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Genes in over-represented GO terms under Molecular Function. For each over-represented GO term and its GO ID, this document lists the CAGpolyQ repeat-containing genes that were annotated with that GO term.

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Genes in over-represented GO terms under Cellular Component. For each over-represented GO term and its GO ID, this document lists the CAGpolyQ repeat-containing genes that were annotated with that GO term.

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Genes and their shared GO terms under Cellular Component. This document provides GO IDs, their descriptions, and the lists of CAGpolyQ repeat-containing genes that shared these annotations above the 99th percentile cutoff.

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Additional file 7:

Genes and their shared GO terms under Biological Process. This document provides GO IDs, their descriptions, and the lists of CAGpolyQ repeat-containing genes that shared these annotations above the 99th percentile cutoff.

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Additional file 8:

Genes and their shared GO terms under Molecular Function. This document provides GO IDs, their descriptions, and the lists of CAGpolyQ repeat-containing genes that shared these annotations above the 99th percentile cutoff.

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Additional file 9:

Conditions for PCR amplification of CAGpolyQ repeats in 64 CAGpolyQ repeats. This table provides primer sequences, annealing temperatures and expected fragment sizes for screening these repeats.

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