Short interspersed elements (SINEs) are a major source of canine genomic diversity

Table 5.

Examples of dog cDNAs that terminate with a bimorphic SINEC_Cf (+) sequence




SINEC_Cf(+)

GGGATCC..167..AAAAA

Ensembl gene prediction
1 BI817000(+) 1-101-CCATTAGAGGATATAAAGAAGGGATCC..174..AAAAA-307 ENSCAFG00000016640 (+)
Cfa6 18637451-18637551-CCATTAGAGGATATAAAGAAgattgct
2 BQ234215(+) 9-251-CAGAGGGTTAAAATGCTTCAGGGATCC..160..AATAA-443 ENSCAFG00000010152 (+)
Cfa21 49587244-49587487-CAGAGGGTTAAAATGCTTCAaattgtc
3 CK997864(–) 1-372-TCAGCTGGTAGGAATGAATTGGGATCC..156..TAAAA-564
Cfa31 20121516-20121868-TCAGCTGGTAGGAATGAATatggatat
4 BQ233944(+) 10-237-GTGTTAGAACTCCATCAACAGGGATCC..176..AAAAA-445 ENSCAFG00000013709 (+)

Cfa17
66653098-66653326-GTGTTAGAACTCCATCAACAttttccc

  • The termini of the consensus SINEC_Cf (+) sequence is included for comparison. For examples 1–4, the GenBank accession numbers (and orientations) refer to dog ESTs [e.g., BI817000 (+)] that can be aligned with specific chromosomal regions of CanFam1. The nucleotide identity between the EST and genomic sequences is terminated by a SINEC_Cf sequence at the 3′-end of the cDNA sequence. These are all examples of transcribed SINEC_Cf insertions that are bimorphic in the dog population. Three of the four examples map within introns of putative genes in the (+) orientation (Ensembl annotation).

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