Moein Farshchian Ph.D Candidate of Cell and Molecular Biology
* GENOMICS: A “Discipline” Less than 25 Years Old Victor A. McKusick
2. Comparative Genomics: Study of Conservation and Divergence of Genomes of Different Organisms 3. Functional Genomics: Development and Application of Global Approaches to Assess Gene Function
* Comparative Genomics Olson et al., (2002)
* Naive Way of Extracting Genes
Same genome Different tissues Different physiology Different proteome Different expression pattern Anise swallowtail, Papilio zelicaon
Figure 7-44 Molecular Biology of the Cell (© Garland Science 2008)
* Cancer
Figure 7-77b Molecular Biology of the Cell (© Garland Science 2008)
* Clonal Hetrogeny in Tumor
Metastasis
- very low The incidence of cancer in non-human primates is very low. -All examined human cancer genes (n=333) are present in chimpanzee, contain intact open reading frames and show a high degree of conservation between both species (99.38%) -. Puente et al., (2006)
* Induced pluripotent Stem Cell (iPS Cells)
* Nature Review Cancer, April 2007
* Thanks