Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

Richard A Gibbs, George M Weinstock, Michael L Metzker, Donna M Muzny, Erica J Sodergren, Steven Scherer, Graham Scott, David Steffen, Kim C Worley, Paula E Burch, Geoffrey Okwuonu, Sandra Hines, Lora Lewis, Christine DeRamo, Oliver Delgado, Shannon Dugan-Rocha, George Miner, Margaret Morgan, Alicia Hawes, Rachel GillCelera, Robert A Holt, Mark D Adams, Peter G Amanatides, Holly Baden-Tillson, Mary Barnstead, Soo Chin, Cheryl A Evans, Steve Ferriera, Carl Fosler, Anna Glodek, Zhiping Gu, Don Jennings, Cheryl L Kraft, Trixie Nguyen, Cynthia M Pfannkoch, Cynthia Sitter, Granger G Sutton, J Craig Venter, Trevor Woodage, Douglas Smith, Hong-Mei Lee, Erik Gustafson, Patrick Cahill, Arnold Kana, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Keith Weinstock, Kim Fechtel, Robert B Weiss, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium

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    Abstract

    The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain. The sequence represents a high-quality 'draft' covering over 90% of the genome. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution. This first comprehensive analysis includes genes and proteins and their relation to human disease, repeated sequences, comparative genome-wide studies of mammalian orthologous chromosomal regions and rearrangement breakpoints, reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes and the events leading to existing species, rates of variation, and lineage-specific and lineage-independent evolutionary events such as expansion of gene families, orthology relations and protein evolution.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalNature
    Volume428
    Issue number6982
    Pages (from-to)493-521
    Number of pages29
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

    Keywords

    • Animals
    • Base Composition
    • Centromere
    • Chromosomes, Mammalian
    • CpG Islands
    • DNA Transposable Elements
    • DNA, Mitochondrial
    • Evolution, Molecular
    • Gene Duplication
    • Genome
    • Genomics
    • Humans
    • Introns
    • Male
    • Mice
    • Models, Molecular
    • Mutagenesis
    • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
    • RNA Splice Sites
    • RNA, Untranslated
    • Rats
    • Rats, Inbred BN
    • Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
    • Retroelements
    • Sequence Analysis, DNA
    • Telomere

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