Ophiura sarsii is a common brittle star species across the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of Atlantic Pacific oceans. Ophiurasarsii among dominant echinoderms in Barents Sea. We studied genetic diversity O.sarsii by sequencing 548 bp fragment mitochondrial COI gene. demonstrated high Both major mtDNA lineages were present Sea evenly distributed between northern waters around Svalbard archipelago...

The porcine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is called swine leukocyte antigen (SLA), which controls immune responses and transplantation reactions. The SLA is mapped on pig chromosome 7 (SSC7) near the centromere. In this study, 3 class I (SLA-1, SLA-3, and SLA-2) and 3 class II (DRB1, DQB1, and DQA) genes were used for investigation of SLA haplotypes in Yucatan miniature pigs in Korea. ...

Self-incompatibility (SI) in Brassica is controlled sporophytically by the multiallelic S-locus. The SI phenotype of pollen in an S-heterozygote is determined by the relationship between the two S-haplotypes it carries, and dominant/recessive relationships often are observed between the two S-haplotypes. The S-locus protein 11 (SP11, also known as the S-locus cysteine-rich protein) gene has bee...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to identify and to functionally characterize genetic variants in ST3GAL5 and ST8SIA1 in Korean patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO). MATERIALS AND METHODS Genetic analyses were conducted using DNA samples from TAO patients (n=50) and healthy subjects (n=48) to identify TAO-specific genetic variants of ST3GAL5 or ST8SIA1. The effect of each gen...

High-throughput DNA sequencing has enabled us to look beyond consensus reference sequences to the variation observed in sequences within organisms; their haplotypes. Recovery, or assembly of haplotypes has proved computationally difficult and there exist many probabilistic heuristics that attempt to recover the original haplotypes for a single organism of known ploidy. However, existing approac...

In goat milk the most abundant proteins are the casein genes, CSN1S1, CSN2, CSN1S2, and CSN3. Mutations have been identified within these genes affecting the level of gene expression, and effects on milk production traits have been reported. The aim of this study was to detect polymorphisms (SNPs) in the casein genes of Norwegian goats, resolve haplotype structures within the loci, and assess t...