@article{Lyle01112007, author = {Lyle, Robert and Prandini, Paola and Osoegawa, Kazutoyo and ten Hallers, Boudewijn and Humphray, Sean and Zhu, Baoli and Eyras, Eduardo and Castelo, Robert and Bird, Christine P. and Gagos, Sarantos and Scott, Carol and Cox, Antony and Deutsch, Samuel and Ucla, Catherine and Cruts, Marc and Dahoun, Sophie and She, Xinwei and Bena, Frederique and Wang, Sheng-Yue and Van Broeckhoven, Christine and Eichler, Evan E. and Guigo, Roderic and Rogers, Jane and de Jong, Pieter J. and Reymond, Alexandre and Antonarakis, Stylianos E.}, title = {Islands of euchromatin-like sequence and expressed polymorphic sequences within the short arm of human chromosome 21}, volume = {17}, number = {11}, pages = {000}, year = {2007}, doi = {10.1101/gr.6675307}, abstract ={The goals of the human genome project did not include sequencing of the heterochromatic regions. We describe here an initial sequence of 1.1 Mb of the short arm of human chromosome 21 (HSA21p), estimated to be 10% of 21p. This region contains extensive euchromatic-like sequence and includes on average one transcript every 100 kb. These transcripts show multiple inter- and intrachromosomal copies, and extensive copy number and sequence variability. The sequencing of the “heterochromatic” regions of the human genome is likely to reveal many additional functional elements and provide important evolutionary information.}, URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2007/09/25/gr.6675307.abstract}, eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2007/09/25/gr.6675307.full.pdf+html}, journal = {Genome Research} }