An improved canine genome and a comprehensive catalogue of coding genes and non-coding transcripts.

The domestic dog, Canis familiaris, is a well-established model system for mapping trait and disease loci. While the original draft sequence was of good quality, gaps were abundant particularly in promoter regions of the genome, negatively impacting the annotation and study of candidate genes. Here,...

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Main Authors: Marc P Hoeppner, Andrew Lundquist, Mono Pirun, Jennifer R S Meadows, Neda Zamani, Jeremy Johnson, Görel Sundström, April Cook, Michael G FitzGerald, Ross Swofford, Evan Mauceli, Behrooz Torabi Moghadam, Anna Greka, Jessica Alföldi, Amr Abouelleil, Lynne Aftuck, Daniel Bessette, Aaron Berlin, Adam Brown, Gary Gearin, Annie Lui, J Pendexter Macdonald, Margaret Priest, Terrance Shea, Jason Turner-Maier, Andrew Zimmer, Eric S Lander, Federica di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Manfred G Grabherr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3953330?pdf=render