Isolation and localization of DNA segments from specific human chromosomes
AUTOR(ES)
Gusella, James F.
RESUMO
Recombinant DNA techniques have been combined with somatic cell genetic methods to identify, isolate, and amplify fragments of human DNA localized at specific regions of human chromosome 11 selected as a model system. A library of genomic DNA segments has been constructed, in λ Charon 4A bacteriophage, from the DNA of a somatic cell hybrid carrying a portion of human chromosome 11 on a Chinese hamster ovary cell background. Using a nucleic acid hybridization technique that distinguishes human and Chinese hamster interspersed, repetitive DNA, we have been able to distinguish recombinant phages carrying DNA segments of human origin from recombinant phages carrying DNA segments of Chinese hamster origin. We have isolated 50 human DNA segments thus far and have characterized 5 in detail. For each DNA segment characterized, a subsegment that carries no repetitive human DNA sequences has been identified. These segments have been used as hybridization probes in experiments that localize the DNA fragment on the chromosome. In each case an unequivocal chromosomal localization has been obtained with reference to a panel of hybrid cell clones each of which carries a deletion of a portion of the short arm of chromosome 11. At least one DNA segment has been identified which maps to each of the four regions on the short arm defined by the panel of hybrid cell clones used. The approaches described here appear to be general. They can be extended to produce a fine structure map of human chromosome 11 and other human chromosomes. This approach promises implications for human genetics generally, for the human genetic diseases, and possibly for understanding of gene regulation in normal and abnormal differentiation.
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