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Series GSE25122 Query DataSets for GSE25122
Status Public on Nov 16, 2010
Title A first comparative map of copy number variations in the sheep genome
Platform organism Bos taurus
Sample organism Ovis aries
Experiment type Genome variation profiling by genome tiling array
Summary We carried out a cross species cattle-sheep array comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) experiment in order to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in the sheep genome analysing animals of Italian dairy breeds (Sarda, Bagnolese, Laticauda, Massese and Valle del Belice) using a tiling oligonucleotide array with ~385,000 probes designed on the bovine genome.
We identified 135 CNV regions (CNVRs) covering about 10.5 Mb of the virtual sheep genome referred to the bovine genome (0.398%) with a mean and median equal to 77.6 kb and 55.9 kb, respectively. A comparative analysis between the identified sheep CNVRs and those reported in the cattle and goat genomes indicated that overlaps between sheep and goat and sheep and cattle CNVRs are highly significant (P<0.0001) suggesting that several chromosome regions might contain recurrent interspecies CNVRs. Many sheep CNVs affect genes with important biological functions. Further studies are needed to evaluate the functional relevance of these CNVs.
 
Overall design In this study we made use of the high conservation and homology between the cattle and sheep genomes determined by their phylogenetic closeness to identify CNVs in sheep applying the same approach we carried out to identify CNVs in the goat genome. We used a custom tiling array including ~385,000 oligonucleotide probes designed on the Btau_4.0 version of the Bos taurus genome assembly and analysed genomic DNA samples of 11 sheep belonging to 6 different Italian dairy sheep breeds (2 Sarda, 2 Bagnolese, 2 Comisana, 2 Massese, 2 Laticauda and 1 Valle del Belice) compared to the reference DNA of another Sarda sheep.
 
Contributor(s) Fontanesi L, Beretti F, Martelli P, Colombo M, Dall'Olio S, Occidente M, Portolano B, Casadio R, Matassino D, Russo V
Citation(s) 21111040
Submission date Nov 03, 2010
Last update date Mar 22, 2012
Contact name Pier Luigi Martelli
E-mail(s) [email protected]
URL http://www.biocomp.unibo.it
Organization name University of Bologna
Street address via Irnerio 42
City Bologna
ZIP/Postal code 40126
Country Italy
 
Platforms (1)
GPL10990 NimbleGen Bos taurus Whole-genome CGH 385k Array (Btau_4.0 version)
Samples (11)
GSM617130 Bagnolese, 1st animal
GSM617131 Bagnolese, 2nd animal
GSM617132 Comisana, 1st animal
Relations
BioProject PRJNA134521

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SOFT formatted family file(s) SOFTHelp
MINiML formatted family file(s) MINiMLHelp
Series Matrix File(s) TXTHelp

Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE25122_RAW.tar 156.4 Mb (http)(custom) TAR (of PAIR)
Processed data included within Sample table

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