Celera Genomics Public Consortium
Celera Genomics Public Consortium
Celera Genomics Public Consortium
Establish
Function and Diagnostics/
Disease Mechanism Prognostics
Drug
Candidates Cure Gene Therapy
“Sequence the 3 billion (+) base pairs of human DNA
and identify all genes contained in the human genome”
DNA Sequence
‘Reads’ -
Need
60,000,000
of them!!
Time Line of the Human Genome Project
BCM-HGSC: Sequencing Throughput
2,000,000
1,400,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
800,000
600,000
400,000
200,000
0
Jan-00 May-00 Sep-00 Jan-01 May-01 Sep-01 Jan-02 May-02
Standard Molecular Biology techniques – running agarose gels.
CS-Packard DNA Production Robotic Systems (x 3)
Multiplexed (104) Capillary Array for Electrophoresis
State of the Art - ABI 3700 “Prism” DNA Sequencer
US $300,000 Each!
ABI 370:
Universal
Primer
Tag PCR
exon
13,000
OMIM - 10,000 Entries
BCM-
HGSC
Dextrocardia and Situs Inversus
Disorders of laterality
occur in
2 – 3 per 10,000 live births
Pulmonary valve
stenosis mutations
BCM-
HGSC
SCREENING 160 SPORADIC PATIENTS IN
NODAL SIGNALING PATHWAY
RECEPTORS NODAL + LEFTYA competing for receptor
TYPE 1 (ALK2 “ACVR1”
ALK4 “ACVR1B”; ALK7
components
(mouse)
TYPE 2 (ActRIIA “ACVR2”;
ActRIIB “ACVR2b”) EGF-CFC
Co-Factor Proteins
Cripto and Cryptic
Interacts with ALK4 receptor
Human mutations in
Target Genes: PITX2 + NODAL +
all loci marked in read LEFTYB
Epigenetics/Methylation