Transcription profiling of Drosophila deficiency hemizygotes and a duplication hemizygote reveals buffering of segmental and chromosomal aneuploidies in Drosophila melanogaster

ABSTRACT: Chromosomal instability which involves deletion and duplication of chromosomes or chromosome parts is a common feature of cancers, and deficiency screens are commonly used as a method to find genes involved in different biological pathways. Still, how gene expression from whole chromosomes or large chromosomal domains is affected by deficiencies, duplications or chromosome loss is largely unknown. Using expression microarrays of deficiency hemizygotes and a duplication hemizygote we show that expressed genes are significantly buffered when present in a deficiency hemizygote and that the buffering effect is general and not mainly caused by feedback regulation of individual genes. Differentially expressed genes are in general better buffered than ubiquitously expressed genes when present in

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster

SUBMITTER: Per Stenberg 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14517 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress