Extensive conservation of sex chromosome organization between cat and human revealed by parallel radiation hybrid mapping. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A radiation hybrid (RH)-derived physical map of 25 markers on the feline X chromosome (including 19 Type I coding loci and 6 Type II microsatellite markers) was compared to homologous marker order on the human and mouse X chromosome maps. Complete conservation of synteny and marker order was observed between feline and human X chromosomes, whereas the same markers identified a minimum of seven rearranged syntenic segments between mouse and cat/human X chromosome marker order. Within the blocks, the feline, human, and mouse marker order was strongly conserved. Similarly, Y chromosome locus order was remarkably conserved between cat and human Y chromosomes, with only one marker (SMCY) position rearranged between the species. Tight linkage and a conserved gene order for a segment encoding three genes, DFFRY-DBY-UTY in human, mouse, and cat Y chromosomes, coupled with demonstrated deletion effects of these genes on reproductive impairment in both human and mouse, implicates the region as critical for Y-mediated sperm production.

published proceedings

  • Genome Res

altmetric score

  • 2

author list (cited authors)

  • Murphy, W. J., Sun, S., Chen, Z. Q., Pecon-Slattery, J., & O'Brien, S. J.

citation count

  • 91

complete list of authors

  • Murphy, WJ||Sun, S||Chen, ZQ||Pecon-Slattery, J||O'Brien, SJ

publication date

  • December 1999