Hidetoshi Inoko

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1987 - 2009

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89

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Evaluation of PTPN22 polymorphisms and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease in Japanese patients (2009)

Horie, Yukihiro, Kitaichi, Nobuyoshi, Katsuyama, Yoshihiko, Yoshida, Kazuhiko, Miura, Toshie, Ota, Masao, ...

Purpose: Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is an autoimmune disorder against melanocytes. Polymorphisms of the protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor 22 gene (PTPN22) have recently been reported...

Development of CRTEIL and CETRIZ, Cre-loxP-Based Systems, Which Allow Change of Expression of Red to Green or Green to Red Fluorescence upon Transfection with a Cre-Expression Vector (2009)

Masato Ohtsuka, Takayuki Warita, Takayuki Sakurai, Satoshi Watanabe, Hidetoshi Inoko, Masahiro Sato

We developed Cre-loxP-based systems, termed CRTEIL and CETRIZ, which allow gene switching in a noninvasive manner. Single transfection with pCRTEIL resulted in predominant expression of red...

Association of TLR4 polymorphisms with Behcet's disease in a Korean population (2009)

Horie, Yukihiro, Meguro, Akira, Ota, Masao, Kitaichi, Nobuyoshi, Katsuyama, Yoshihiko, Takemoto, Yuko, ...

Objectives. HLA-B51 is strongly associated with Behçet's disease (BD) in any ethnic background. We recently reported that another gene, Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) is also implicated in BD in a...

Development of CRTEIL and CETRIZ, Cre-loxP-Based Systems, Which Allow Change of Expression of Red to Green or Green to Red Fluorescence upon Transfection with a Cre-Expression Vector (2009)

Masato Ohtsuka, Takayuki Warita, Takayuki Sakurai, Satoshi Watanabe, Hidetoshi Inoko, Masahiro Sato

We developed Cre-loxP-based systems, termed CRTEIL and CETRIZ, which allow gene switching in a noninvasive manner. Single transfection with pCRTEIL resulted in predominant expression of red...

Major histocompatibility complex(Mhc) class Ib gene duplications, organization and expression patterns in mouse strain C57BL/6 (2008)

Ohtsuka, Masato, Inoko, Hidetoshi, Kulski, Jerzy K, Yoshimura, Shinichi

Abstract Background The mouse has more than 30 Major histocompatibility complex ( Mhc ) class Ib genes, most of which exist in the H2 region of chromosome 17 in distinct gene clusters. Although...

The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology (2008)

Holland, Linda Z., Albalat, Ricard, Azumi, Kaoru, Benito-Gutiérrez, Èlia, Blow, Matthew J., Bronner-Fraser, Marianne, ...

Cephalochordates, urochordates, and vertebrates evolved from a common ancestor over 520 million years ago. To improve our understanding of chordate evolution and the origin of vertebrates, we...

Polymorphism of IFN-gamma gene and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. (2007)

Horie, Yukihiro, Kitaichi, Nobuyoshi, Takemoto, Yuko, Namba, Kenichi, Yoshida, Kazuhiko, Hirose, Shigeto, ...

PURPOSE: Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is a key cytokine in inflammatory disorders. Elevated aqueous and serum levels of IFN-gamma levels have been reported to be elevated in patients with...

The major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) class IIB region has greater genomic structural flexibility and diversity in the quail than the chicken (2006)

Hosomichi, Kazuyoshi, Shiina, Takashi, Suzuki, Shingo, Tanaka, Masayuki, Shimizu, Sayoko, Iwamoto, Shigehisa, ...

Abstract Background The quail and chicken major histocompatibility complex ( Mhc ) genomic regions have a similar overall organization but differ markedly in that the quail has an expanded number of...

Tyrosinase gene family and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease in Japanese patients. (2006)

Horie, Yukihiro, Takemoto, Yuko, Miyazaki, Akiko, Namba, Kenichi, Kase, Satoru, Yoshida, Kazuhiko, ...

PURPOSE: The aim of the present study was to examine the genetic background of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease in a Japanese population by analyzing the tyrosinase gene family (TYR, TYRP1, and...

Construction of a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library and a preliminary genome survey (2006)

Luo, Meizhong, Kim, HyeRan, Kudrna, Dave, Sisneros, Nicholas B, Lee, So-Jeong, Mueller, Christopher, ...

Abstract Background Sharks are members of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, the oldest living jawed vertebrates. Genomic studies of this group, in comparison to representative species in other...

Multiple candidate gene analysis identifies {alpha}-synuclein as a susceptibility gene for sporadic Parkinson's disease (2006)

Mizuta, Ikuko, Satake, Wataru, Nakabayashi, Yuko, Ito, Chiyomi, Suzuki, Satoko, Momose, Yoshio, ...

Parkinson's disease (PD), one of the most common human neurodegenerative diseases, is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. PD is a complex...

Multiple candidate gene analysis identifies {alpha}-synuclein as a susceptibility gene for sporadic Parkinson's disease (2006)

Mizuta, Ikuko, Satake, Wataru, Nakabayashi, Yuko, Ito, Chiyomi, Suzuki, Satoko, Momose, Yoshio, ...

Parkinson's disease (PD), one of the most common human neurodegenerative diseases, is characterized by loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. PD is a complex disorder,...

BioMed Central (2006)

Bmc Genomics, Kazuyoshi Hosomichi, Takashi Shiina, Shingo Suzuki, Masayuki Tanaka, Sayoko Shimizu, ...

Research article The major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) class IIB region has greater genomic structural flexibility and diversity in the quail than the chicken

Whole Genome Association Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis Using 27,039 Microsatellites (2005)

Gen Tamiya, Minori Shinya, Tadashi Imanishi, Tomoki Ikuta, Koichi Okamoto, Koh Furugaki, ...

© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved The online version of this article has been published under an open access model. Users are entitled to use, reproduce,...

An EYFP insertion mutant containing a modified lox sequence for potential use as a recombination indicator (2005)

Mizutani, Akiko, Ohtsuka, Masato, Kimura, Minoru, Tanaka, Masafumi, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The Cre-loxP system has been used for genetic engineering in many organisms ranging from E. coli to mouse. It is known that intermolecular recombination between two loxP sites is substantially less...

Whole genome association study of rheumatoid arthritis using 27,039 microsatellites (2005)

Tamiya, Gen, Shinya, Minori, Imanishi, Tadashi, Ikuta, Tomoki, Makino, Satoshi, Okamoto, Koichi, ...

A major goal of current human genome-wide studies is to identify the genetic basis of complex disorders. However, the availability of an unbiased, reliable, cost efficient and comprehensive...

Whole genome association study of rheumatoid arthritis using 27 039 microsatellites (2005)

Tamiya, Gen, Shinya, Minori, Imanishi, Tadashi, Ikuta, Tomoki, Makino, Satoshi, Okamoto, Koichi, ...

A major goal of current human genome-wide studies is to identify the genetic basis of complex disorders. However, the availability of an unbiased, reliable, cost efficient and comprehensive...

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones (2004)

Tadashi Imanishi, Takeshi Itoh, Yutaka Suzuki, Claire O'Donovan, Satoshi Fukuchi, Kanako O. Koyanagi, ...

An international team has systematically validated and annotated just over 21,000 human genes using full-length cDNA, thereby providing a valuable new resource for the human genetics community.

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones (2004)

Tadashi Imanishi, Takeshi Itoh, Yutaka Suzuki, Claire O'Donovan, Satoshi Fukuchi, Kanako O. Koyanagi, ...

The human genome sequence defines our inherent biological potential; the realization of the biology encoded therein requires knowledge of the function of each gene. Currently, our knowledge in this...

The genomic sequence and comparative analysis of the rat major histocompatibility complex (2004)

Hurt,Peter, Walter,Lutz, Sudbrak,Ralf, Klages,Sven, Mueller,Ines, Shiina,Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

The genomic sequence and comparative analysis of the rat major histocompatibility complex (2004)

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Mueller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Rhesus Macaque Class I Duplicon Structures, Organization and Evolution within the Alpha Block of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (2004)

Kulski, Jerzy K., Anzai, Tatsuya, Shiina, Takashi, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The alpha block of the human and chimpanzee Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I genomic region contains 10-11 duplicated MHC class I genes, including the HLA/Patr-A, -G and -F genes. In...

Rhesus Macaque Class I Duplicon Structures, Organization, and Evolution Within the Alpha Block of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (2004)

Kulski, Jerzy K, Anzai, Tatsuya, Shiina, Takashi, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The alpha block of the human and chimpanzee major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genomic region contains 10 to 11 duplicated MHC class I genes, including the HLA/Patr-A, -G, and -F genes....

CHOP: visualization of 'wobbling' and isolation of highly conserved regions from aligned DNA sequences (2004)

Ohtsuka, Masato, Horiuchi, Shohei, Kulski, Jerzy K., Kimura, Minoru, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The web software CHOP was developed to visualize the ‘wobbling’ in the third codon position of aligned DNA sequences. The simple features of this tool allow users to easily find regions suspected...

The Genomic Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex (2004)

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Müller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Novel algorithm for automated genotyping of microsatellites (2004)

Matsumoto, Toshiko, Yukawa, Wataru, Nozaki, Yasuyuki, Nakashige, Ryo, Shinya, Minori, Makino, Satoshi, ...

Microsatellites or short tandem repeats (STRs) are abundant in the human genome with easily assayed polymorphisms, providing powerful genetic tools for mapping both Mendelian and complex traits....

Rhesus Macaque Class I Duplicon Structures, Organization and Evolution within the Alpha Block of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (2004)

Kulski, Jerzy K., Anzai, Tatsuya, Shiina, Takashi, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The alpha block of the human and chimpanzee Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I genomic region contains 10-11 duplicated MHC class I genes, including the HLA/Patr-A, -G and -F genes. In...

Isolation and characterization of three genes paralogous to mouse Ring3 (2001)

Taniguchi, Yasushi, Suzuki, Hiroyuki, Ohtsuka, Masato, Kikuchi, Natsuko, Kimura, Minoru, Inoko, Hidetoshi

Syntenic chromosomal areas share paralogous genes which are believed to have been generated by repeated duplication of an ancestral gene. The human RING3 gene is known to have paralogous...

HOXD3 regulates expression of JAGGED1, a ligand for Notch receptors (2001)

Taniguchi, Yasushi, Sato, Masahiro, Tanaka, Osamu, Sekiguchi, Masaki, Inoko, Hidetoshi, Kimura, Minoru

We generated transgenic mouse embryos expressing the human HOXD3 homeobox gene in the central nervous system (CNS) utilizing the Wnt1 expression vector. Whole mount in situ hybridization analysis...

Genomic Structure of the Spermatid-Specific Hsp70 Homolog Gene Located in the Class III Region of the Major Histocompatibility Complex of Mouse and Man (1998)

Ito, Yoshiyasu, Ando, Asako, Ando, Hironori, Ando, Junko, Saijoh, Yukio, Inoko, Hidetoshi, ...

The Hsc70t gene is a Hsp70 homolog gene expressed constitutively in spermatids in mice. This gene is linked to two heat-inducible Hsp70 genes, Hsp70.1 and Hsp70.3, located in the MHC class III...

Demonstration of the requirement for self antigen in the activation of autoreactive T cells (1992)

Sugita, Masahiko, Kumagai, Shunichi, Ota, Masao, Inoko, Hidetoshi, Tsuji, Kimiyoshi, Imura, Hiroo

An HLA-DR4-restricted T cell clone (26G11), which was reactive to autogolous non-T cells without any nominal antigens, was established from an unlmmunized normal subject that was DR1/4 positive....

Predominant recognition of human T cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) pX gene products by human CD8+ cytotoxic T cells directed against HTLV-I-infected cells (1991)

Kannagi, Mari, Harada, Shinji, Maruyama, Ikuro, Inoko, Hidetoshi, Igarashi, Hisanaga, Kuwashima, Gorou, ...

We established long-term cell lines of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific for human T cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) from peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of a patient with...

Linkage of TNF genes to the HLA-B locus (1987)

Inoko, Hidetoshi, Trowsdale, John

pulsed field gel electrophoresis was used to determine the location of the tumour necrosis factor (TNF) α and β genes. They vere shown to be linked to the HLA-B locus; analagous to their location...

Triplet repeat polymorphism in the transmembrane region of the MICA gene: A strong association of six GCT repetitions with Behçet disease

Mizuki, Nobuhisa, Ota, Masao, Kimura, Minoru, Ohno, Shigeaki, Ando, Hitoshi, Katsuyama, Yoshihiko, ...

A member of a novel family of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes termed MIC (MHC class I chain-related genes), MICA, has been recently identified near the HLA-B gene on...

Molecular dynamics of MHC genesis unraveled by sequence analysis of the 1,796,938-bp HLA class I region

Shiina, Takashi, Tamiya, Gen, Oka, Akira, Takishima, Nobusada, Yamagata, Tetsushi, Kikkawa, Eri, ...

The intensely studied MHC has become the paradigm for understanding the architectural evolution of vertebrate multigene families. The 4-Mb human MHC (also known as the HLA complex) encodes genes...

A basolateral sorting motif in the MICA cytoplasmic tail

Suemizu, Hiroshi, Radosavljevic, Mirjana, Kimura, Minoru, Sadahiro, Sotaro, Yoshimura, Shinichi, Bahram, Seiamak, ...

The MHC class I chain-related MICA molecule is a stress-induced, highly polymorphic, epithelia-specific, membrane-bound glycoprotein interacting with the activating NK cell receptor NKG2D and/or...

Comparative sequencing of human and chimpanzee MHC class I regions unveils insertions/deletions as the major path to genomic divergence

Anzai, Tatsuya, Shiina, Takashi, Kimura, Natsuki, Yanagiya, Kazuyo, Kohara, Sakae, Shigenari, Atsuko, ...

Despite their high degree of genomic similarity, reminiscent of their relatively recent separation from each other (≈6 million years ago), the molecular basis of traits unique to humans vs. their...

Construction of a Linkage Map of the Medaka (Oryzias latipes) and Mapping of the Da Mutant Locus Defective in Dorsoventral Patterning

Ohtsuka, Masato, Makino, Satoshi, Yoda, Kinya, Wada, Hironori, Naruse, Kiyoshi, Mitani, Hiroshi, ...

Double anal fin (Da) is a medaka with an autosomal semidominant mutation that causes mirror image duplication of the ventral region concentrating on the caudal region. The chromosomal location of the...

Genomic Anatomy of a Premier Major Histocompatibility Complex Paralogous Region on Chromosome 1q21–q22

Shiina, Takashi, Ando, Asako, Suto, Yumiko, Kasai, Fumio, Shigenari, Atsuko, Takishima, Nobusada, ...

Human chromosomes 1q21–q25, 6p21.3–22.2, 9q33–q34, and 19p13.1–p13.4 carry clusters of paralogous loci, to date best defined by the flagship 6p MHC region. They have presumably been created...

HLA-DR2–restricted responses to proteolipid protein 95-116 peptide cause autoimmune encephalitis in transgenic mice

Kawamura, Kazuyuki, Yamamura, Takashi, Yokoyama, Kazumasa, Chui, De-Hua, Fukui, Yoshinori, Sasazuki, Takehiko, ...

In multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who carry the Class II major histocompatibility (MHC) type HLA-DR2, T cells specific for amino acids 95-116 in the proteolipid protein (PLP) are activated and...

The Genomic Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Müller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

Imanishi, Tadashi, Itoh, Takeshi, Suzuki, Yutaka, O'Donovan, Claire, Fukuchi, Satoshi, Koyanagi, Kanako O, ...

The human genome sequence defines our inherent biological potential; the realization of the biology encoded therein requires knowledge of the function of each gene. Currently, our knowledge in this...

CHOP: visualization of ‘wobbling’ and isolation of highly conserved regions from aligned DNA sequences

Ohtsuka, Masato, Horiuchi, Shohei, Kulski, Jerzy K., Kimura, Minoru, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The web software CHOP was developed to visualize the ‘wobbling’ in the third codon position of aligned DNA sequences. The simple features of this tool allow users to easily find regions suspected...

Novel algorithm for automated genotyping of microsatellites

Matsumoto, Toshiko, Yukawa, Wataru, Nozaki, Yasuyuki, Nakashige, Ryo, Shinya, Minori, Makino, Satoshi, ...

Microsatellites or short tandem repeats (STRs) are abundant in the human genome with easily assayed polymorphisms, providing powerful genetic tools for mapping both Mendelian and complex traits....

Genomic evolution of MHC class I region in primates

Fukami-Kobayashi, Kaoru, Shiina, Takashi, Anzai, Tatsuya, Sano, Kazumi, Yamazaki, Masaaki, Inoko, Hidetoshi, ...

To elucidate the origins of the MHC-B-MHC-C pair and the MHC class I chain-related molecule (MIC)A-MICB pair, we sequenced an MHC class I genomic region of humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus monkeys and...

Fine Localization of a Major Disease-Susceptibility Locus for Diffuse Panbronchiolitis

Keicho, Naoto, Ohashi, Jun, Tamiya, Gen, Nakata, Koichiro, Taguchi, Yoshio, Azuma, Arata, ...

Diffuse panbronchiolitis affecting East Asians is strongly associated with the class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. Recent observations suggest that a major disease-susceptibility gene may...

Rapid Evolution of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Genes in Primates Generates New Disease Alleles in Humans via Hitchhiking Diversity

Shiina, Takashi, Ota, Masao, Shimizu, Sayoko, Katsuyama, Yoshihiko, Hashimoto, Nami, Takasu, Miwa, ...

A plausible explanation for many MHC-linked diseases is lacking. Sequencing of the MHC class I region (coding units or full contigs) in several human and nonhuman primate haplotypes allowed an...

Triplet repeat polymorphism in the transmembrane region of the MICA gene: A strong association of six GCT repetitions with Behçet disease

Mizuki, Nobuhisa, Ota, Masao, Kimura, Minoru, Ohno, Shigeaki, Ando, Hitoshi, Katsuyama, Yoshihiko, ...

A member of a novel family of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes termed MIC (MHC class I chain-related genes), MICA, has been recently identified near the HLA-B gene on...

Molecular dynamics of MHC genesis unraveled by sequence analysis of the 1,796,938-bp HLA class I region

Shiina, Takashi, Tamiya, Gen, Oka, Akira, Takishima, Nobusada, Yamagata, Tetsushi, Kikkawa, Eri, ...

The intensely studied MHC has become the paradigm for understanding the architectural evolution of vertebrate multigene families. The 4-Mb human MHC (also known as the HLA complex) encodes genes...

A basolateral sorting motif in the MICA cytoplasmic tail

Suemizu, Hiroshi, Radosavljevic, Mirjana, Kimura, Minoru, Sadahiro, Sotaro, Yoshimura, Shinichi, Bahram, Seiamak, ...

The MHC class I chain-related MICA molecule is a stress-induced, highly polymorphic, epithelia-specific, membrane-bound glycoprotein interacting with the activating NK cell receptor NKG2D and/or...

Comparative sequencing of human and chimpanzee MHC class I regions unveils insertions/deletions as the major path to genomic divergence

Anzai, Tatsuya, Shiina, Takashi, Kimura, Natsuki, Yanagiya, Kazuyo, Kohara, Sakae, Shigenari, Atsuko, ...

Despite their high degree of genomic similarity, reminiscent of their relatively recent separation from each other (≈6 million years ago), the molecular basis of traits unique to humans vs. their...

Construction of a Linkage Map of the Medaka (Oryzias latipes) and Mapping of the Da Mutant Locus Defective in Dorsoventral Patterning

Ohtsuka, Masato, Makino, Satoshi, Yoda, Kinya, Wada, Hironori, Naruse, Kiyoshi, Mitani, Hiroshi, ...

Double anal fin (Da) is a medaka with an autosomal semidominant mutation that causes mirror image duplication of the ventral region concentrating on the caudal region. The chromosomal location of the...

Genomic Anatomy of a Premier Major Histocompatibility Complex Paralogous Region on Chromosome 1q21–q22

Shiina, Takashi, Ando, Asako, Suto, Yumiko, Kasai, Fumio, Shigenari, Atsuko, Takishima, Nobusada, ...

Human chromosomes 1q21–q25, 6p21.3–22.2, 9q33–q34, and 19p13.1–p13.4 carry clusters of paralogous loci, to date best defined by the flagship 6p MHC region. They have presumably been created...

HLA-DR2–restricted responses to proteolipid protein 95-116 peptide cause autoimmune encephalitis in transgenic mice

Kawamura, Kazuyuki, Yamamura, Takashi, Yokoyama, Kazumasa, Chui, De-Hua, Fukui, Yoshinori, Sasazuki, Takehiko, ...

In multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who carry the Class II major histocompatibility (MHC) type HLA-DR2, T cells specific for amino acids 95-116 in the proteolipid protein (PLP) are activated and...

Identification of IκBL as the Second Major Histocompatibility Complex–Linked Susceptibility Locus for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Okamoto, Koichi, Makino, Satoshi, Yoshikawa, Yoko, Takaki, Asumi, Nagatsuka, Yumie, Ota, Masao, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease with a complex etiology in which environmental factors within a genetically susceptible host maneuver the innate and adaptive arms of...

The Genomic Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Müller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

Imanishi, Tadashi, Itoh, Takeshi, Suzuki, Yutaka, O'Donovan, Claire, Fukuchi, Satoshi, Koyanagi, Kanako O, ...

The human genome sequence defines our inherent biological potential; the realization of the biology encoded therein requires knowledge of the function of each gene. Currently, our knowledge in this...

CHOP: visualization of ‘wobbling’ and isolation of highly conserved regions from aligned DNA sequences

Ohtsuka, Masato, Horiuchi, Shohei, Kulski, Jerzy K., Kimura, Minoru, Inoko, Hidetoshi

The web software CHOP was developed to visualize the ‘wobbling’ in the third codon position of aligned DNA sequences. The simple features of this tool allow users to easily find regions suspected...

Novel algorithm for automated genotyping of microsatellites

Matsumoto, Toshiko, Yukawa, Wataru, Nozaki, Yasuyuki, Nakashige, Ryo, Shinya, Minori, Makino, Satoshi, ...

Microsatellites or short tandem repeats (STRs) are abundant in the human genome with easily assayed polymorphisms, providing powerful genetic tools for mapping both Mendelian and complex traits....

Genomic evolution of MHC class I region in primates

Fukami-Kobayashi, Kaoru, Shiina, Takashi, Anzai, Tatsuya, Sano, Kazumi, Yamazaki, Masaaki, Inoko, Hidetoshi, ...

To elucidate the origins of the MHC-B-MHC-C pair and the MHC class I chain-related molecule (MIC)A-MICB pair, we sequenced an MHC class I genomic region of humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus monkeys and...

Fine Localization of a Major Disease-Susceptibility Locus for Diffuse Panbronchiolitis

Keicho, Naoto, Ohashi, Jun, Tamiya, Gen, Nakata, Koichiro, Taguchi, Yoshio, Azuma, Arata, ...

Diffuse panbronchiolitis affecting East Asians is strongly associated with the class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. Recent observations suggest that a major disease-susceptibility gene may...

Rapid Evolution of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Genes in Primates Generates New Disease Alleles in Humans via Hitchhiking Diversity

Shiina, Takashi, Ota, Masao, Shimizu, Sayoko, Katsuyama, Yoshihiko, Hashimoto, Nami, Takasu, Miwa, ...

A plausible explanation for many MHC-linked diseases is lacking. Sequencing of the MHC class I region (coding units or full contigs) in several human and nonhuman primate haplotypes allowed an...

Genomewide Association Analysis of Human Narcolepsy and a New Resistance Gene

Kawashima, Minae, Tamiya, Gen, Oka, Akira, Hohjoh, Hirohiko, Juji, Takeo, Ebisawa, Takashi, ...

Human narcolepsy is a hypersomnia that is affected by multiple genetic and environmental factors. One genetic factor strongly associated with narcolepsy is the HLA-DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 haplotype in...

Genomic structure around joining segments and constant regions of swine T-cell receptor α/δ (TRA/TRD) locus

Uenishi, Hirohide, Hiraiwa, Hideki, Yamamoto, Ryuji, Yasue, Hiroshi, Takagaki, Yohtaroh, Shiina, Takashi, ...

A complete genomic region of 131·2 kb including the swine T-cell receptor α/δ constant region (TRAC/TRDC) and joining segments (TRAJ/TRDJ) was sequenced. The structure of this region was...

Genetic Analysis of Craniofacial Traits in the Medaka

Kimura, Tetsuaki, Shimada, Atsuko, Sakai, Noriyoshi, Mitani, Hiroshi, Naruse, Kiyoshi, Takeda, Hiroyuki, ...

Family and twin studies suggest that a substantial genetic component underlies individual differences in craniofacial morphology. In the current study, we quantified 444 craniofacial traits in 100...

Genome-wide association analysis with selective genotyping identifies candidate loci for adult height at 8q21.13 and 15q22.33-q23 in Mongolians

Kimura, Tetsuaki, Kobayashi, Terukazu, Munkhbat, Batmunkh, Oyungerel, Ganjuur, Bilegtsaikhan, Tsolmon, Anar, Damdinsuren, ...

We performed a genome-wide association study with 23,465 microsatellite markers to identify genes related to adult height. Selective genotyping was applied to extremely tall and extremely short...

Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERVK9) Structural Polymorphism With Haplotypic HLA-A Allelic Associations

Kulski, Jerzy K., Shigenari, Atsuko, Shiina, Takashi, Ota, Masao, Hosomichi, Kazuyoshi, James, Ian, ...

The frequency and HLA-A allelic associations of a HERVK9 DNA structural polymorphism located in close proximity to the highly polymorphic HLA-A gene within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)...

The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

Holland, Linda Z., Albalat, Ricard, Azumi, Kaoru, Benito-Gutiérrez, Èlia, Blow, Matthew J., Bronner-Fraser, Marianne, ...

Cephalochordates, urochordates, and vertebrates evolved from a common ancestor over 520 million years ago. To improve our understanding of chordate evolution and the origin of vertebrates, we...

Detecting Linkage between a Trait and a Marker in a Random Mating Population without Pedigree Record

Mano, Shuhei, Endo, Takaho A., Oka, Akira, Ozawa, Akira, Gojobori, Takashi, Inoko, Hidetoshi

Modern linkage-based approaches employing extended pedigrees are becoming powerful tools for localizing complex quantitative trait loci. For these linkage mapping methods, it is necessary to...

Development of CRTEIL and CETRIZ, Cre-loxP-Based Systems, Which Allow Change of Expression of Red to Green or Green to Red Fluorescence upon Transfection with a Cre-Expression Vector

Ohtsuka, Masato, Warita, Takayuki, Sakurai, Takayuki, Watanabe, Satoshi, Inoko, Hidetoshi, Sato, Masahiro

We developed Cre-loxP-based systems, termed CRTEIL and CETRIZ, which allow gene switching in a noninvasive manner. Single transfection with pCRTEIL resulted in predominant expression of red...

Lack of association with high myopia and the MYP2 locus in the Japanese population by high resolution microsatellite analysis on chromosome 18

Yamane, Takahiro, Mok, Jeewon, Oka, Akira, Okada, Eiichi, Nishizaki, Ritsuko, Meguro, Akira, ...

MYP2 was reported for a candidate locus associated with high grade myopia by linkage analysis, but no candidate gene has been detected. We report an association study in the Japanese population using...

A single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of the LAMA1 gene in Japanese patients with high myopia

Sasaki, Sayaka, Ota, Masao, Meguro, Akira, Nishizaki, Ritsuko, Okada, Eiichi, Mok, Jeewon, ...

Although a myopia susceptibility gene has not yet been elucidated, ten candidate regions (MYP1–MYP10) have been associated with myopia by linkage analysis employing large pedigrees. We report...

A Novel System of Polymorphic and Diverse NK Cell Receptors in Primates

Averdam, Anne, Petersen, Beatrix, Rosner, Cornelia, Neff, Jennifer, Roos, Christian, Eberle, Manfred, ...

There are two main classes of natural killer (NK) cell receptors in mammals, the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and the structurally unrelated killer cell lectin-like receptors...