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SCIENCE
Volume 312, Issue 5771, Pages 276-279Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124070
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR048101] Funding Source: Medline
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Evolutionary sequence conservation is an accepted criterion to identify noncoding regulatory sequences. We have used a transposon-based transgenic assay in zebrafish to evaluate noncoding sequences at the zebrafish ret locus, conserved among teleosts, and at the human RET locus, conserved among mammals. Most teleost sequences directed ret-specific reporter gene expression, with many displaying overlapping regulatory control. The majority of human RET noncoding sequences also directed ret-specific expression in zebrafish. Thus, vast amounts of functional sequence information may exist that would not be detected by sequence similarity approaches.
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