Project description:The abscence of TBR2 gene in human leads to microcephaly. This condition is mimicked by the specific ablation of the murine gene in developing cerebral cortex. Herein we compared gene expression in control and Tbr2 cKO in E14.5 cerebral cortices. This approach represents a useful tool to identify the molecular mechanisms at the basis of the phenotype. 6 samples, 3x Tbr2 +/+;Foxg1::Cre (control) and 3x Tbr2 fl/fl;Foxg1::Cre
Project description:The abscence of TBR2 gene in human leads to microcephaly. This condition is mimicked by the specific ablation of the murine gene in developing cerebral cortex. Herein we compared gene expression in control and Tbr2 cKO in E14.5 cerebral cortices. This approach represents a useful tool to identify the molecular mechanisms at the basis of the phenotype.
Project description:This is RNA sequencing performed with embryonic day 12 (E12) microdissected mouse cortices with the following genotypes: Emx1 Cre/ +; Zbtb7a +/+ (WT), Emx1 Cre/+; Zbtb7a fl/+ (cHet) and Emx1 Cre/+; Zbtb7a fl/fl (cKO). The goal of this study was to understand the impact ot Zbtb7a knockout during cortical development.
Project description:β-catenin signaling is required for hair follicle development, but it is unknown whether it is sufficient to activate expression of hair follicle genes in embryonic skin. To address this we profiled gene expression in skin dissected from E14.5 KRT14-Cre Ctnnb1(Ex3)fl/+ embryos carrying an activating mutation in epithelial beta-catenin, and control littermate embryos. Experiment Overall Design: Total skin RNA from two KRT14-Cre Ctnnb1(Ex3)fl/+ and two control littermate E14.5 embryos was hybridized to Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome MOE430 2.0 oligonucleotide microarrays. Experiment Overall Design: Appended below is Table S3: Full list of differentially expressed genes in KRT14-Cre Ctnnb1(Ex3)fl/+ mutant compared with control littermate intact skin at E14.5, including normalization and filter parameters. Fold change, listed in the second column, gives the ratio of normalized mutant : control transcript levels.
Project description:To investigate the gene expression patterns in Foxg1 frameshift mutation, we performed RNAseq in P1 cortices of Q84Pfs heterozygote and littermate wild type control mice.
Project description:This is RNA sequencing performed with embryonic day 12 (E12) microdissected mouse cortices with the following genotypes: Emx1 Cre/ +; Zbtb7a +/+ (WT) and Emx1 Cre/+; Zbtb7a fl/fl (cKO). The goal of this study was to understand the impact ot Zbtb7a knockout during cortical development.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.
