TY - JOUR A1 - Barbazuk, W. Bradley A1 - Korf, Ian A1 - Kadavi, Candy A1 - Heyen, Joshua A1 - Tate, Stephanie A1 - Wun, Edmund A1 - Bedell, Joseph A. A1 - McPherson, John D. A1 - Johnson, Stephen L. T1 - The Syntenic Relationship of the Zebrafish and Human Genomes Y1 - 2000/09/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 1351 EP - 1358 DO - 10.1101/gr.144700 VL - 10 IS - 9 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/10/9/1351.abstract N2 - The zebrafish is an important vertebrate model for the mutational analysis of genes effecting developmental processes. Understanding the relationship between zebrafish genes and mutations with those of humans will require understanding the syntenic correspondence between the zebrafish and human genomes. High throughput gene and EST mapping projects in zebrafish are now facilitating this goal. Map positions for 523 zebrafish genes and ESTs with predicted human orthologs reveal extensive contiguous blocks of synteny between the zebrafish and human genomes. Eighty percent of genes and ESTs analyzed belong to conserved synteny groups (two or more genes linked in both zebrafish and human) and 56% of all genes analyzed fall in 118 homology segments (uninterrupted segments containing two or more contiguous genes or ESTs with conserved map order between the zebrafish and human genomes). This work now provides a syntenic relationship to the human genome for the majority of the zebrafish genome. ER -