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Please find below publications of our group. Currently, we list 565 papers. Some of the publications are in collaboration with the group of Sonja Prohaska and are also listed in the publication list for her individual group. Access to published papers (
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Paired-End Mapping Reveals Extensive Structural Variation in the Human Genome
Jan O. Korbel, Alexander Eckehart Urban, Jason P. Affourtit, Brian Godwin, Fabian Grubert, Jan Fredrik Simons, Philip M. Kim, Dean Palejev, Nicholas J. Carriero, Lei Du, Bruce E. Taillon, Zhoutao Chen, <b>Andrea Tanzer</b>, A. C. Eugenia Saunders, Jianxiang Chi, Fengtang Yang, Nigel P. Carter, Matthew E. Hurles, Sherman M. Weissman, Timothy T. Harkins, Mark B. Gerstein, Michael Egholm, Michael Snyder
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Status: Published
Science 318:420-426 (2007)
Abstract
Structural variation of the genome involves kilobase- to megabase-sized deletions, duplications, insertions, inversions, and complex combinations of rearrangements. We introduce high-throughput and massive paired-end mapping (PEM), a large-scale genome sequencing method to identify structural variants (SVs) ~3 kb or larger that combines the rescue and capture of paired-ends of 3 kb fragments, massive 454 Sequencing, and a computational approach to map DNA reads onto a reference genome. PEM was used to map SVs in an African and putatively European individual and identified shared and divergent SVs relative to the reference genome. Overall, we fine-mapped more than 1000 SVs and documented that the number of SVs among humans is much larger than initially hypothesized; many of the SVs potentially affect gene function. The breakpoint junction sequences of more than 200 SVs were determined with a novel pooling strategy and computational analysis. Our analysis provided insights into the mechanisms of SV formation in humans.