Haplotyping a non-meiotic diploid fungal pathogen using induced aneuploidies and SNP/CGH microarray analysis

Judith Berman, Anja Forche*

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Abstract

The generation of haplotype information has recently become very attractive due to its utility for identifying mutations associated with human disease and for the development of personalized medicine. Haplotype information also is crucial for studying recombination mechanisms and genetic diversity, and for analyzing allele-specific gene expression. Classic haplotyping methods require the analysis of hundreds of meiotic progeny. To facilitate haplotyping in the non-meiotic human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, we exploited trisomic heterozygous chromosomes generated via the UAU1 selection strategy. Using this system, we obtained phasing information from allelic biases, detected by SNP/CGH microarray analysis. This strategy has the potential to be applicable to other diploid, asexual Candida species that are important causes of human disease.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
PublisherHumana Press Inc.
Pages131-146
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1551
ISSN (Print)1064-3745

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesR01AI075096, 2 R15 AI090633, R01AI0624273
Seventh Framework Programme303635
FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions
European Research Council340087
Israel Science Foundation340/13

    Keywords

    • Aneuploidy
    • Candida albicans
    • Haplotyping
    • Heterozygosity
    • Non-meiotic organism
    • Phased genome
    • SNP/CGH microarrays
    • UAU1 cassette
    • Ymap

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