Systematic recovery and analysis of full-ORF human cDNA clones

The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) consortium (http://mgc.nci.nih.gov) seeks to establish publicly available collections of full-ORF cDNAs for several organisms of significance to biomedical research, including human. To date over 15,200 human cDNA clones containing full-length open reading frames...

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Published in:	Genome research Vol. 14; no. 10B; pp. 2083 - 2092
Main Authors:	Baross, Agnes, Butterfield, Yaron S N, Coughlin, Shaun M, Zeng, Thomas, Griffith, Malachi, Griffith, Obi L, Petrescu, Anca S, Smailus, Duane E, Khattra, Jaswinder, McDonald, Helen L, McKay, Sheldon J, Moksa, Michelle, Holt, Robert A, Marra, Marco A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 01-10-2004
Subjects:	Cloning, Molecular DNA, Complementary - analysis DNA, Complementary - chemistry Expressed Sequence Tags Gene Library Genome, Human Humans Methods Open Reading Frames - genetics Plasmids Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Summary:	The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) consortium (http://mgc.nci.nih.gov) seeks to establish publicly available collections of full-ORF cDNAs for several organisms of significance to biomedical research, including human. To date over 15,200 human cDNA clones containing full-length open reading frames (ORFs) have been identified via systematic expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis of a diverse set of cDNA libraries; however, further systematic EST analysis is no longer an efficient method for identifying new cDNAs. As part of our involvement in the MGC program, we have developed a scalable method for targeted recovery of cDNA clones to facilitate recovery of genes absent from the MGC collection. First, cDNA is synthesized from various RNAs, followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of transcripts in 96-well plates using gene-specific primer pairs flanking the ORFs. Amplicons are cloned into a sequencing vector, and full-length sequences are obtained. Sequences are processed and assembled using Phred and Phrap, and analyzed using Consed and a number of bioinformatics methods we have developed. Sequences are compared with the Reference Sequence (RefSeq) database, and validation of sequence discrepancies is attempted using other sequence databases including dbEST and dbSNP. Clones with identical sequence to RefSeq or containing only validated changes will become part of the MGC human gene collection. Clones containing novel splice variants or polymorphisms have also been identified. Our approach to clone recovery, applied at large scale, has the potential to recover many and possibly most of the genes absent from the MGC collection.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 Corresponding author. E-MAIL mmarra@bcgsc.ca ; FAX (604) 877-6085.
ISSN:	1088-9051 1549-5469
DOI:	10.1101/gr.2473704