Reading list for S. Pearson-White's Mammalian Genetics section of BIMS 808                                  April 2004.

Except for the review articles on reserve, this list is a resource for you, not a required reading list.

The following review articles are on reserve in Microbiology xerox room:

Avner, P. and E. Heard 2001. X-chromosome inactivation: counting, choice and initiation. Nat Rev Genet. 2:59-67.
Stanford, W.L., J.B. Cohn and S.P. Cordes 2001. Gene-trap mutagenesis: past, present and beyond. Nat Rev Genet. 2:756-768.
Lobe, C.G., K.E. Koop, W. Kreppner, et al. 1999. Z/AP, a double reporter for cre-mediated recombination. Dev. Biology. 208:281-292.


A good reference textbook, for your information:

General Human Genetics

Strachan, T. and A.P. Read 1999. Human Molecular Genetics. 576.


List of reference materials I consulted, for your information:

Inbred Mouse Strains

Silver, L.M. 1995. Mouse Genetics: Concepts and Applications. 362.

Crawley, J.N. 2000. What's Wrong With My Mouse. 329.

Positional cloning

Collins, F.S. 1992. Postional cloning: Let's not call it reverse anymore. Nat. Genet. 1:3-6.

obese gene example

Zhang, Y., R. Proenca, M. Maffei, et al. 1994. Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue. Nature. 372:425-432.

BRCA1

Davies, K. 1994. Damage report for BRCA1. Nature. 372:574,

Futreal, P.A., Q. Liu, D. Shattuck-Eidens, et al. 1994. BRCA1 mutations in primary breast and ovarian carcinomas. Science. 266:120-122,

Harshman, K., R. Bell, J. Rosenthal, et al. 1995. Comparison of the positional cloning methods used to isolate the BRCA1 gene. Hum Mol Genet. 4:1259-1266,

Kahn, P. 1996. Coming to grips with genes and risk. Science. 274:496-498,

Weber, B.L., K.J. Abel, L.C. Brody, et al. 1994. Familial breast cancer. Approaching the isolation of a susceptibility gene. Cancer. 74:1013-1020.

DMD

Hoffman, E.P., R.H. Brown, Jr. and L.M. Kunkel 1987. Dystrophin: the protein product of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus. Cell. 51:919-928,

Koenig, M., E.P. Hoffman, C.J. Bertelson, et al. 1987. Complete cloning of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cDNA and preliminary genomic organization of the DMD gene in normal and affected individuals. Cell. 50:509-517,

Kunkel, L.M., A.P. Monaco, W. Middlesworth, et al. 1985. Specific cloning of DNA fragments absent from the DNA of a male patient with an X chromosome deletion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 82:4778-4782,

Monaco, A.P., R.L. Neve, C. Colletti-Feener, et al. 1986. Isolation of candidate cDNAs for portions of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene. Nature. 323:646-650,

Monaco, A.P., C.J. Bertelson, C. Colletti-Feener, et al. 1987. Localization and cloning of Xp21 deletion breakpoints involved in muscular dystrophy. Hum Genet. 75:221-227.

Exon trapping

Church, D.M., L.T. Banks, A.C. Rogers, et al. 1993. Identification of human chromosome 9 specific genes using exon amplification. Hum Mol Genet. 2:1915-1920,

Church, D.M., C.J. Stotler, J.L. Rutter, et al. 1994. Isolation of genes from complex sources of mammalian genomic DNA using exon amplification. Nat. Genet. 6:98-105.

high throughput analysis of polymorphism

Brown, P.O. and L. Hartwell 1998. Genomics and human disease--variations on variation. Nat. Genet. 18:91-93,

Collins, F.S., M.S. Guyer and A. Charkravarti 1997. Variations on a theme: cataloging human DNA sequence variation. Science. 278:1580-1581.

dynamic mutations

Richards, R.I. and G.R. Sutherland 1992. Dynamic mutations: a new class of mutations causing human disease. Cell. 70:709-712.

triplet repeats

Fu, Y.H., D.P. Kuhl, A. Pizzuti, et al. 1991. Variation of the CGG repeat at the fragile X site results in genetic instability: resolution of the Sherman paradox. Cell. 67:1047-1058,

Jennings, C. 1995. How trinucleotide repeats may function. Nature. 378:127,

Kremer, E.J., M. Pritchard, M. Lynch, et al. 1991. Mapping of DNA instability at the fragile X to a trinucleotide repeat sequence p(CCG)n. Science. 252:1711-1714,

Mangiarini, L., K. Sathasivam, M. Seller, et al. 1996. Exon 1 of the HD gene with an expanded CAG repeat is sufficient to cause a progressive neurological phenotype in transgenic mice. Cell. 87:493-506,

Mangiarini, L., K. Sathasivam, A. Mahal, et al. 1997. Instability of highly expanded CAG repeats in mice transgenic for the Huntington's disease mutation. Nat. Genet. 15:197-200.

Lin, X., C.J. Cummings and H.Y. Zoghbi 1999. Expanding our understanding of polyglutamine diseases through mouse models. Neuron. 24:499-502,

Ding, Q., J.J. Lewis, K.M. Strum, et al. 2002. Polyglutamine expansion, protein aggregation, proteasome activity, and neural survival. J. Biol. Chem. 277:13935-13942.

mouse interspecific backcrosses

Copeland, N.G. and N.A. Jenkins 1991. Development and applications of a molecular genetic linkage map of the mouse genome. Trends Genet. 7:113-118,

Copeland, N.G., N.A. Jenkins, D.J. Gilbert, et al. 1993. A genetic linkage map of the mouse: current applications and future prospects [see comments]. Science. 262:57-66,

Rowe, L.B., J.H. Nadeau, R. Turner, et al. 1994. Maps from two interspecific backcross DNA panels available as a community genetic mapping resource. Mamm Genome. 5:253-274.

Human to mouse genome and sequence comparison

Makalowski, W., J. Zhang and M.S. Boguski 1996. Comparative analysis of 1196 orthologous mouse and human full-length mRNA and protein sequences. Genome Res. 6:846-857.

Epigenetic inheritance, X inactivation, imprinting

Lyon, M.F. 1993. Epigenetic inheritance in mammals. Trends Genet. 9:123-128.

X inactivation

Avner, P. and E. Heard 2001. X-chromosome inactivation: counting, choice and initiation. Nat Rev Genet. 2:59-67..

Brockdorff, N., A. Ashworth, G.F. Kay, et al. 1992. The product of the mouse Xist gene is a 15 kb inactive X-specific transcript containing no conserved ORF and located in the nucleus. Cell. 71:515-526,

Brown, C.J., B.D. Hendrich, J.L. Rupert, et al. 1992. The human XIST gene: analysis of a 17 kb inactive X-specific RNA that contains conserved repeats and is highly localized within the nucleus. Cell. 71:527-542,

Brown, C.J. and H.F. Willard 1994. The human X-inactivation centre is not required for maintenance of X- chromosome inactivation. Nature. 368:154-156,

Kay, G.F., G.D. Penny, D. Patel, et al. 1993. Expression of Xist during mouse development suggests a role in the initiation of X chromosome inactivation. Cell. 72:171-182,

Norris, D.P., D. Patel, G.F. Kay, et al. 1994. Evidence that random and imprinted Xist expression is controlled by preemptive methylation. Cell. 77:41-51,

Marahrens, Y., B. Panning, J. Dausman, et al. 1997. Xist-deficient mice are defective in dosage compensation but not spermatogenesis. Genes & Dev. 11:156-166,

Marahrens, Y., J. Loring and R. Jaenisch 1998. Role of the Xist gene in X chromosome choosing. Cell. 92:657-664.

imprinting

Reik, W. and J. Walter 2001. Genomic imprinting: parental influence on the genome. Nat Rev Genet. 2:21-32.,

Reik, W. and J. Walter 2001. Evolution of imprinting mechanisms: the battle of the sexes begins in the zygote. Nat. Genet. 27:255-256..

Tilghman, S.M. 1999. The sins of the fathers and mothers: genomic imprinting in mammalian development. Cell. 96:185-193.

parthenogenetic mice

Clarke, H., S. Varmuza, V. Prideaux, et al. 1988. The developmental potential of parthenogenetically derived cells in chimeric mouse embryos: implications for action of imprinted genes. Development. 104:175-182,

Mann, J.R., I. Gadi, M.L. Harbison, et al. 1990. Androgenetic mouse embryonic stem cells are pluripotent and cause skeletal defects in chimeras: implications for genetic imprinting. Cell. 62:251-260,

Thomson, J.A. and D. Solter 1988. The developmental fates of androgenetic, parthenogenetic and gynogenetic cells in chimeric gastrulating mouse embryos. Genes & Dev. 2:1344-1351.

Transgenic mice

Brinster, R.l., H.Y. Chen, M.E. Trumbauer, et al. 1985. Factors affecting the efficiency of introducing foreign DNA into mice by microinjecting eggs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 82:4438-4442,

Hanahan, D. 1989. Transgenic mice as probes into complex systems. Science. 246:1265-1274,

Hogan, B., R. Beddington, F. Costantini, et al. 1994. Manipulating the Mouse Embryo; A Laboratory Manual. 497,

Jaenisch, R. 1988. Transgenic Animals. Science. 240:1468-1474,

Koopman, P., J. Gubbay, N. Vivian, et al. 1991. Male development of chromosomally female mice transgenic for Sry [see comments]. Nature. 351:117-121.

Use of transgenic mice to define cis regulatory elements governing tissue specific expression

Goldhamer, D.J., A. Faerman, M. Shani, et al. 1992. Regulatory elements that control the lineage-specific expression of myoD. Science. 256:538-542.

targeting transgene to specific site

Bradley, A. and P. Liu 1996. Target practice in transgenics. Nat. Genet. 14:121-123,

Jasin, M., M.E. Moynahan and C. Richardson 1996. Targeted transgenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 93:8804-8808.

Hardouin, N. and A. Nagy 2000. Gene-trap-based target site for cre-mediated transgenic insertion. Genesis. 26:245-252..

position effect variegation, LCR's

Walters, M.C., S. Fiering, J. Eidemiller, et al. 1995. Enhancers increase the probability but not the level of gene expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 92:7125-7129,

Walters, M.C., W. Magis, S. Fiering, et al. 1996. Transcriptional enhancers act in cis to suppress position-effect variegation. Genes & Dev. 10:185-195.

promoter, gene traps in mice

Friedrich, G. and P. Soriano 1991. Promoter traps in embryonic stem cells: a genetic screen to identify and mutate developmental genes in mice. Genes & Dev. 5:1513-1523,

Gossler, A., A.L. Joyner, J. Rossant, et al. 1989. Mouse embryonic stem cells and reporter constructs to detect developmentally regulated genes. Science. 244:463-465,

Voss, A.K., T. Thomas and P. Gruss 1998. Efficiency assessment of the gene trap approach. Dev. Dynamics. 212:171-180.

Stanford, W.L., J.B. Cohn and S.P. Cordes 2001. Gene-trap mutagenesis: past, present and beyond. Nat Rev Genet. 2:756-768.

Knockout mice

First knockout papers

Doetschman, T., R.G. Gregg, N. Maeda, et al. 1987. Targeted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature. 330:576-578,

Doetschman, T., N. Maeda and O. Smithies 1988. Targeted mutation of the Hprt gene in mouse embryonic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 85:8583-8587,

Mansour, S.L., K.R. Thomas and M.R. Capecchi 1988. Disruption of the proto-oncogene int-2 in mouse embryo-derived stem cells: a general strategy for targeting mutations to non-selectable genes. Nature. 336:348-352,

Thomas, K.R. and M.R. Capecchi 1987. Site-directed mutagenesis by gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells. Cell. 51:503-512.

Tissue-specific knockout papers

Araki, K., M. Araki, J. Miyazaki, et al. 1995. Site-specific recombination of a transgene in fertilized eggs by transient expression of Cre recombinase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 92:160-164,

Gu, H., J.D. Marth, P.C. Orban, et al. 1994. Deletion of a DNA polymerase ß gene segment in T cells using cell type-specific gene targeting. Science. 265:103-106.

Sauer, B. 1998. Inducible gene targeting in mice using the Cre/lox system. Methods. 14:381-392.

tissue-specific knockout in brain

McHugh, T.J., K.I. Blum, J.Z. Tsien, et al. 1996. Impaired hippocampal representation of space in CA1-specific NMDAR1 knockout mice. Cell. 87:1339-1349,

Tsien, J.Z., D.F. Chen, D. Gerber, et al. 1996. Subregion- and cell type-restricted gene knockout in mouse brain. Cell. 87:1317-1326,

Tsien, J.Z., P.T. Huerta and S. Tonegawa 1996. The essential role of hippocampal CA1 NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in spatial memory. Cell. 87:1327-1338.

review of tissue-specific knockouts

Barinaga, M. 1994. Knockout Mice: Round Two. Science. 265:26-28,

Gu, H. 1994. Gene targeting and its application to the study of B-cell development. Curr Opin Immunol. 6:308-312.

FLP, Cre and FLP

Fiering, S., C.G. Kim, E.M. Epner, et al. 1993. An "in-out" strategy using gene targeting and FLP recombinase for the functional dissection of complex DNA regulatory elements: analysis of the beta-globin locus control region. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 90:8469-8473,

Meyers, E.N., M. Lewandoski and G.R. Martin 1998. An Fgf8 mutant allelic series generated by Cre- and Flp-mediated recombination. Nat. Genet. 18:136-141.

tetracycline-regulated Cre expression

St-Onge, L., P.A. Furth and P. Gruss 1996. Temporal control of the Cre recombinase in transgenic mice by a tetracycline responsive promoter. Nucleic Acids Res. 24:3875-3877.

Lac-regulatory system in the mouse

Mills, A.A. 2001. Changing colors in mice: an inducible system that delivers. Genes & Dev. 15:1461-1467,

Cronin, C.A., W. Gluba and H. Scrable 2001. The lac operator-repressor system is functional in the mouse. Genes & Dev. 15:1506-1517.

other targeting methods

Askew, G.R., T. Doetschman and J.B. Lingrel 1993. Site-directed point mutations in embryonic stem cells: a gene-targeting tag-and-exchange strategy. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:4115-4124,

Detloff, P.J., J. Lewis, S.W. John, et al. 1994. Deletion and replacement of the mouse adult beta-globin genes by a "plug and socket" repeated targeting strategy. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14:6936-6943,

Lewis, J., B. Yang, P. Detloff, et al. 1996. Gene modification via "plug and socket" gene targeting. J Clin Invest. 97:3-5,

Valancius, V. and O. Smithies 1991. Testing an "in-out" targeting procedure for making subtle genomic modifications in mouse embryonic stem cells. Mol. Cell. Biol. 11:1402-1408.

Engineering marker knock-in mice or excision-reporters

Lobe, C.G., K.E. Koop, W. Kreppner, et al. 1999. Z/AP, a double reporter for cre-mediated recombination. Dev. Biology. 208:281-292.,

Yamauchi, Y., K. Abe, A. Mantani, et al. 1999. A novel transgenic technique that allows specific marking of the neural crest cell lineage in mice. Dev. Biology. 212:191-203..

knockout of an imprinted gene, mash2

Guillemot, F., A. Nagy, A. Auerbach, et al. 1994. Essential role of Mash-2 in extraembryonic development. Nature. 371:333-336,

Guillemot, F., T. Caspary, S.M. Tilghman, et al. 1995. Genomic imprinting of Mash2, a mouse gene required for trophoblast development. Nat. Genet. 9:235-242.

knock-in

Hanks, M., W. Wurst, L. Anson-Cartwright, et al. 1995. Rescue of the En-1 mutant phenotype by replacement of En-1 with En-2. Science. 269:679-682.

Wang, Y., P.N.J. Schnegelsberg, J. Dausman, et al. 1996. Functional redundancy of the muscle-specific transcription factors Myf5 and myogenin. Nature. 379:823-825.

chromosome engineering in mice, 3-4 cM deletions

Ramirez-Solis, R., P. Liu and A. Bradley 1995. Chromosome engineering in mice. Nature. 378:720-724.

databases

Brandon, E.P., R.L. Idzerda and G.S. McKnight 1995. Targeting the mouse genome: a compendium of knockouts (Part I). Curr Biol. 5:625-634,

Brandon, E.P., R.L. Idzerda and G.S. McKnight 1995. Targeting the mouse genome: a compendium of knockouts (Part III). Curr Biol. 5:873-881.

Nagy, A. and L. Mar 2001. Creation and use of a Cre recombinase transgenic database. Methods Mol Biol. 158:95-106..

review

Copp, A.J. 1995. Death before birth: clues from gene knockouts and mutations. Trends Genet. 11:87-93.

Use of chimeric or mosaic mice

Betz, U.A.K., C.A.J. Voßhenrich, K. Rajewsky, et al. 1996. Bypass of lethality with mosaic mice generated by Cre-loxP-mediated recombination. Current Biology. 6:1307-1316,

Guillemot, F., et al. 1995. Genomic imprinting of Mash2, a mouse gene required for trophoblast development. Nat. Genet. 9:235-242.

Tetraploid rescue

Dietrich, S., F. Abou-Rebyeh, H. Brohmann, et al. 1999. The role of SF/HGF and c-Met in the development of skeletal muscle. Development. 126:1621-1629.,

Goto, Y. and N. Takagi 1998. Tetraploid embryos rescue embryonic lethality caused by an additional maternally inherited X chromosome in the mouse. Development. 125:3353-3363.,

Schorpp-Kistner, M., Z.Q. Wang, P. Angel, et al. 1999. JunB is essential for mammalian placentation. EMBO J. 18:934-948.,

Wang, Z.Q., F. Kiefer, P. Urbanek, et al. 1997. Generation of completely embryonic stem cell-derived mutant mice using tetraploid blastocyst injection. Mech Dev. 62:137-145..

RAG2 blastocyst complementation

Chen, J., R. Lansford, V. Stewart, et al. 1993. RAG-2-deficient blastocyst complementation: An assay of gene function in lymphocyte development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 90:4528-4532,

Muthusamy, N., K. Barton and J.M. Leiden 1995. Defective activation and survival of T cells lacking the Ets-1 transcription factor. Nature. 377:639-642.

Phenotype depends on genetic background

Donehower, L.A., M. Harvey, H. Vogel, et al. 1995. Effects of genetic background on tumorigenesis in p53-deficient mice. Mol Carcinog. 14:16-22,

Harvey, M., M.J. McArthur, C.A. Montgomery, Jr., et al. 1993. Genetic background alters the spectrum of tumors that develop in p53- deficient mice. Faseb J. 7:938-943,

Sibilia, M. and E.F. Wagner 1995. Strain-dependent epithelial defects in mice lacking the EGF receptor. Science. 269:234-238.

Rozmahel, R., M. Wilschanski, A. Matin, et al. 1996. Modulation of disease severity in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator deficient mice by a secondary genetic factor. Nat. Genet. 12:280-287.

129Sv mouse strain variation, ES cell origins

Simpson, E.M., C.C. Linder, E.E. Sargent, et al. 1997. Genetic variation among 129 substrains and its importance for targeted mutagenesis in mice. Nat. Genet. 16:19-27.

Congenics, speed congenics

Wakeland, E., L. Morel, K. Achey, et al. 1997. Speed congenics: a classic technique in the fast lane (relatively speaking). Immunol Today. 18:472-477.

Selection cassette itself can cause phenotypic effects

Fiering, S., E. Epner, K. Robinson, et al. 1995. Targeted deletion of 5'HS2 of the murine beta-globin LCR reveals that it is not essential for proper regulation of the beta-globin locus. Genes & Dev. 9:2203-2213.

Muscle Regulatory gene examples

MyoD knockouts

Megeney, L.A., B. Kablar, K. Garrett, et al. 1996. MyoD is required for myogenic stem cell function in adult skeletal muscle. Genes & Dev. 10:1173-1183,

Rudnicki, M.A., T. Braun, S. Hinuma, et al. 1992. Inactivation of MyoD in mice leads to up-regulation of the myogenic HLH gene myf-5 and results in apparently normal muscle development. Cell. 71:383-390,

Rudnicki, M.A., P.N.J. Schnegelsberg, R.H. Stead, et al. 1993. MyoD or Myf-5 is required for the formation of skeletal muscle. Cell. 75:1351-1359.

Myogenin knockouts

Hasty, P., A. Bradley, J.H. Morris, et al. 1993. Muscle deficiency and neonatal death in mice with a targeted mutation in the myogenin gene. Nature. 364:501-506,

Nabeshima, Y., K. Hanaoka, M. Hayasaka, et al. 1993. Myogenin gene disruption results in perinatal lethality because of severe muscle defect. Nature. 364:532-535.

myf5 knockouts, including lacZ knockin

Braun, T. and H.H. Arnold 1995. Inactivation of Myf-6 and Myf-5 genes in mice leads to alterations in skeletal muscle development. EMBO J. 14:1176-1186,

Tajbakhsh, S. and M.E. Buckingham 1994. Mouse limb muscle is determined in the absence of the earliest myogenic factor myf-5. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 91:747-751,

Tajbakhsh, S., D. Rocancourt and M. Buckingham 1996. Muscle progenitor cells failing to respond to positional cues adopt non-myogenic fates in myf-5 null mice. Nature. 384:266-270,

Tajbakhsh, S., E. Bober, C. Babinet, et al. 1996. Gene targeting the myf-5 locus with nlacZ reveals expression of this myogenic factor in mature skeletal muscle fibres as well as early embryonic muscle. Dev. Dynamics. 206:291-300.

Myogenin knocked into myf5 locus

Wang, Y., et al. 1996. Functional redundancy of the muscle-specific transcription factors Myf5 and myogenin. Nature. 379:823-825.

Different MRF4 null alleles had different phenotypes

Olson, E.N., H.H. Arnold, P.W. Rigby, et al. 1996. Know your neighbors: three phenotypes in null mutants of the myogenic bHLH gene MRF4. Cell. 85:1-4,

Yoon, J.K., E.N. Olson, H.H. Arnold, et al. 1997. Different MRF4 knockout alleles differentially disrupt Myf-5 expression: cis-regulatory interactions at the MRF4/Myf-5 locus. Dev. Biology. 188:349-362.

ES cell differentiation in vitro

Doetschmann, T.C., H. Eistetter, M. Katz, et al. 1985. The in vitro development of blastocyst-derived embryonic stem cell lines: formation of visceral yolk sac, blood islets and myocardium. J. Embryol. Exp. Morph. 87:27-45,

Schmitt, R.M., E. Bruyns and H.R. Snodgrass 1991. Hematopoietic development of embryonic stem cells in vitro: cytokine and receptor gene expression. Genes & Dev. 5:728-740.

Keller, G., M. Kennedy, T. Papayannopoulou, et al. 1993. Hematopoietic commitment during embryonic stem cell differentiation in culture. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:473-486,

Keller, G.M. 1995. In vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 7:862-869.,

Wiles, M.V. and G. Keller 1991. Multiple hematopoietic lineages develop from embryonic stem (ES) cells in culture. Development. 111:259-267..

Human ES cells

Shamblott, M.J., J. Axelman, S. Wang, et al. 1998. Derivation of pluripotent stem cells from cultured human primordial germ cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 95:13726-13731,

Solter, D. and J. Gearhart 1999. Putting stem cells to work. Science. 283:1468-1470,

Thomson, J.A., J. Itskovitz-Eldor, S.S. Shapiro, et al. 1998. Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. Science. 282:1145-1147.

Stem cell characterization
Shi, W., V. Zakhartchenko and E. Wolf 2003. Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian nuclear transfer. Differentiation. 71:91-113,
Sapienza, C. 2002. Imprinted gene expression, transplantation medicine, and the "other" human embryonic stem cell. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:10243-10245,
Ramalho-Santos, M., S. Yoon, Y. Matsuzaki, et al. 2002. "Stemness": transcriptional profiling of embryonic and adult stem cells. Science. 298:597-600,
Ivanova, N.B., J.T. Dimos, C. Schaniel, et al. 2002. A stem cell molecular signature. Science. 298:601-604.

Cloning mammals, i.e. somatic cell nuclear transfer

Eggan, K., H. Akutsu, K. Hochedlinger, et al. 2000. X-Chromosome inactivation in cloned mouse embryos. Science. 290:1578-1581.,

Wilmut, I., A.E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, et al. 1997. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells. Nature. 385:810-813.

Rossant, J. 2002. A monoclonal mouse? Nature. 415:967-969,

Hochedlinger, K. and R. Jaenisch 2002. Monoclonal mice generated by nuclear transfer from mature B and T donor cells. Nature. 415:1035-1038,

Perry, A.C. and T. Wakayama 2002. Untimely ends and new beginnings in mouse cloning. Nat. Genet. 30:243-244,

Ogonuki, N., et al. 2002. Early death of mice cloned from somatic cells. Nat. Genet. 30:253-254.

Humpherys, D., et al. 2001. Epigenetic instability in ES cells and cloned mice. Science. 293:95-97.

Shin, T., D. Kraemer, J. Pryor, et al. 2002. A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation. Nature. 415:859,

Rideout, W.M., K. Hochedlinger, M. Kyba, et al. 2002. Correction of a genetic defect by nuclear transplantation and combined cell and gene therapy. Cell. 109:17-27,

Rideout, W.M., 3rd, K. Eggan and R. Jaenisch 2001. Nuclear cloning and epigenetic reprogramming of the genome. Science. 293:1093-1098,

Lanza, R.P., J.B. Cibelli, C. Blackwell, et al. 2000. Extension of cell life-span and telomere length in animals cloned from senescent somatic cells. Science. 288:665-669,

Humpherys, D., et al. 2001. Epigenetic instability in ES cells and cloned mice. Science. 293:95-97.

Human cloning (proposed)

Jaenisch, R. and I. Wilmut 2001. Developmental biology. Don't clone humans! Science. 291:2552..

Functional genomics

Rastan, S. and L.J. Beeley 1997. Functional genomics: going forwards from the databases. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 7:777-783.

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