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Human Genome News, Nov. 1994; 6(4):2

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (CHOP)

  • (NIH, established 1991)
  • BEVERLY S. EMANUEL, Director
  • Kurt Fischbeck, Associate Director (Univ. of Penna. School of Med.)
  • CONTACT: Emanuel (215/590-3856, Fax: -3764, beverly@mail.med.upenn.edu); CHOP; 34th St. & Civic Center Blvd.; Philadelphia, PA 19104.

OTHER KEY RESEARCHERS

  • Callum Bell
  • Jaclyn Biegel
  • Marcia Budarf
  • Kenneth Buetow (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
  • Chris Overton (Univ. of Penna. School of Med.)
  • Eric Rappaport
  • Bruce Roe (Univ. of Okla.)
  • David Searls (Univ. of Penna. School of Med.)
  • Saul Surrey

MAJOR GOALS

  • Construction of high-resolution genetic and physical maps of chromosome 22 in yeast artificial chromosomes and cosmids.
  • Production of a "sequence-ready" contig of the euchromatic portion of chromosome 22.
  • Sequencing of 25 Mb of chromosome 22 to produce a "sequence-read" map from the "sequence-ready" map.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Construction of a chromosome 22 framework map based on 20 short tandem repeat polymorphisms.
  • Regional assignment of over 300 anchor markers on a regional mapping panel (25 bins).
  • Construction of 15 yeast artificial chromosome contigs covering at least 70% of the chromosome.
  • Over 250 sequence tagged sites screened to identify almost 700 yeast artificial chromosomes. Contigs contain as many as 78 sequence tagged sites.
  • Production of clones and markers, including (1) construction of a 1.2ö coverage yeast artificial chromosome library from a chromosome 22-only somatic cell hybrid; (2) over 200 sequence tagged sites, 48 CA+TG repeat clones, and 70 Not I junction clones; and (3) creation of a normalized human liver cDNA library.
  • Construction of a 100-member radiation hybrid panel (characterized by fluorescence in situ hybridization) and 5 somatic cell hybrids from cell lines with chromosome 22 deletions or translocations. Banking of cell lines with chromosome 22 abnormalities.
  • Development of informatics capabilities, including (1) enhancement of existing Sybase to Quintus Prolog interface to support transparent access of all Sybase data types from Prolog; (2) creation of tool for visualizing DNA sequence features in short sequencing runs; and (3) development of Postscript tool for generating publication-quality depictions of cytogenetic maps.

AVAILABLE RESOURCES

  • 477 human chromosome 22 sequence tagged sites from ftp site [cbil.humgen.upenn.edu (type: cdpub/22)]).
  • Somatic cell hybrid regional mapping panel and radiation hybrid panel.
  • Cell lines from patients with chromosome 22 abnormalities.
  • Center-developed software.
  • Yeast artificial chromosome and cosmid screening resource service for chromosome 22 sequence tagged sites and probes.
  • Arrayed chromosome 22 cosmid library.
  • Total human yeast artificial chromosome libraries (Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain).

HGMIS staff

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