Here we report a large scale genetic screen in mice employing a phenotype driven discovery platform to identify mutations resulting in age related disease both late onset and progressive

An N ethyl N nitrosourea ENU mutagenesis screen induces single nucleotide variants randomly in the mouse genome Subsequent phenotyping of mutant and wildtype mice enables the identification of mutated pathways resulting in phenotypes associated with a particular ENU lesion

We describe a novel screen to isolate pharyngeal cell morphology mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans using myo 2 GFP to rapidly identify abnormally shaped pharynxes in EMS Ethyl Methanesulfonate

B pha 4 RNAi used a positive control for pharynx phenotypes arrow shows lack of myo 2 GFP in most of the head C lam 3 T22A3 8 RNAi showing a phenotype similar to PAS136 with non adherent cells arrow

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Current strategies for mutation detection in phenotype driven

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Mutagenomics A Rapid High Throughput Method to Identify

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The specific phenotypes being surveyed in the primary screens include identification of testicular cancer X inactivation and methylation obesity diabetes blood amino acid levels colon cancer and vision phenotypes

Here we present a strategy mutagenomics to identify causal mutations from a screen in a high throughput fashion in the absence of backcrossing Mutagenomics is initiated by sequencing the genomes of the mutants identified which are then subjected to a three stage pipeline

Current strategies for mutation detection in phenotype driven

Current strategies for mutation detection in phenotype driven

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Multiple phenotypes resulting from a mutagenesis screen for pharynx muscle mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans 1 Europe PMC requires Javascript to function effectively

We have adopted a phenotype driven forward genetic approach utilizing ENU mutagenesis accompanied by recurrent phenotype screens of aged mutant mice This has allowed us to identify

A multiplexed microfluidic platform and strategy for screening mutant libraries for dynamic population level phenotypes are developed Using this technology variants of two oscillator circuits are created and screened for differences in their dynamics

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One way to identify genes that affect a particular biological process is to induce random mutations in a large population and then look for mutants with phenotypes that might be caused by a disruption of a particular biochemical pathway

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Here we present a strategy mutagenomics to identify causal mutations from a screen in a high throughput fashion in the absence of backcrossing Mutagenomics is initiated by sequencing the genomes of the mutants identified which are then subjected to a three stage pipeline

Our studies have focused on genetically mapping and functionally testing two phenotypes the short pharynx and the loss of muscle cohesion phenotypes We have also identified new alleles of sma 1 and our screen suggests many genes directing pharynx assembly and structure may be either pharynx specific or less critical in other tissues

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An N ethyl N nitrosourea ENU mutagenesis screen induces single nucleotide variants randomly in the mouse genome Subsequent phenotyping of mutant and wildtype mice enables the identification of mutated pathways resulting in phenotypes associated with a particular ENU lesion

We outline mouse mutagenesis with the chemical N ethyl N nitrosourea ENU and the strategy utilized to instantaneously identify mutations that are causative of specific phenotypes We also summarize the types of phenotypic screens that can be performed to explore various aspects of dermatologic disease

This report describes multiple classes of mutant pharynx phenotypes isolated from an Ethyl Methanesulfonate EMS mutagenesis screen for larvae with phenotypes such as short pharynx thin cylindrical pharynx non adherent cells anterior pharynx absent pharynx cells outside the basement membrane and pharynx unattached

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Here we describe a simple reproducible approach using the SB transposon system to perform phenotypic cell based genetic screens This approach employs only three plasmids to perform unbiased whole genome transposon mutagenesis

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We describe a novel screen to isolate pharyngeal cell morphology mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans using myo 2 GFP to rapidly identify abnormally shaped pharynxes in EMS Ethyl Methanesulfonate mutagenized worms

Multiple Phenotypes Resulting from a Mutagenesis Screen for

Novel gene function revealed by mouse mutagenesis screens for

An N ethyl N nitrosourea ENU mutagenesis screen induces single nucleotide variants randomly in the mouse genome Subsequent phenotyping of mutant and wildtype mice enables the identification of mutated pathways resulting in phenotypes associated with a particular ENU lesion

Multiple Phenotypes Resulting from a Mutagenesis Screen for