• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.164-173
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• 2016

To investigate the genetic basis of phenotypic differences, sequence variations were analyzed in 8 inbred watermelon lines by re-sequencing. The number of sequence variations differed depending on the chromosome. Only 12.9% of SNPs were found within genes, whereas the rest were detected in promoter or intergenic regions. SNP density analysis showed that there was a highly variable region at the end of chromosome 6, which is similar to previously published findings. However, this region with high SNP density did not show much variation between the lines. In contrast, highly conserved regions with a size of 6.5-10 Mb were found in chromosomes 10 and 11. Pathway analysis suggested that the DIMBOA (a natural antibiotic)-glucoside degradation pathway was significantly different between the lines, indicating that the eight lines may have different levels of pathogen resistance. Among the carbohydrate-related genes, the alpha-galactosidase gene was the most variable among the lines. Information from this study will be helpful in understanding the watermelon breeding process at the molecular level.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.34 no.6 s.107
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• pp.537-543
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• 2004

Microsatellit markers are considered to be very promising genetic markers for genetic linkage analysis. The majority of the markers are as informative as in Caucasians but there are significant ethnic differences in the genetic variations. In order to investigate the genetic variations in the Korean and Japanese populations and their ethnic differences, 51 microsatellite marker loci spanning the whole human chromosome 1 were arranged from a commercially available set (ABI PRISM Linkage Mapping Set-HD5, Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA), and then determined the allelic frequencies and heterozygosities for these marker loci in the 90 unrelated Korean subjects and 90 unrelated Japanese subjects. Of all 51 markers tested, significant differences were observed when microsatellite allele frequency pattern of Korean was compared with those of Caucasian, while this pattern was highly similar between Korean and Japanese populations. Our data indicate that an extensive verification of public microsatellite markers in a particular population study should be undertaken prior to their linkage studies. Moreover, this information should facilitate genetic linkage studies of various hereditary diseases, especially in the Koreans and Japanese.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.1241-1244
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• 2008

We report on 2 siblings with a partial trisomy of 7q ($7q22{\rightarrow}qter$) and concomitant partial monosomy of 8p ($8p23.3{\rightarrow}pter$), which were shown by FISH using probes located at the telomere region of each chromosome. All the balanced translocation carriers (father and a sister) in this family had a normal phenotype. The 2 siblings with the same abnormal karyotype had similar multiple congenital anomalies and dysmorphic features. During the follow-up, the first male patient died in the neonatal period, but the female sibling is still alive at 2 years and 6 months of age.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.115-123
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• 1998

Purpose : This study was tried to evaluate the effect of the partial body fractionated irradiation on the frequency of chromosomal aberration. Materials and Methods : In three patients with uterine cervix carcinoma, chromosomal aberrations were analyzed during fractionated external beam radiotherapy Radiation field included whole pelvis and total dose was 5040 cGy in 28 fractions. Results : The values of the frequency of dicentrics and rings (Ydr) in pre-irradiated peripheral lymphocytes in three patients were 0.0060, 0.0000, and 0.0029, respectively. The frequency of dicentrics and rings, estimated during the course of radiotherapy, increased with radiation dose and best fitted to the linear equation, $Ydr=7.31{\times}10^{-5}D(cGy)+1.45{\times}10^{-2}$. The frequency of dicentrics and rings among the cells with dicentric and/or ring(Qdr) also showed increasing tendency and best fitted to the linear equation, $Qdr=1.01{\times}10^{-4}D(cGy)+1.04$. Conclusion : Ydr increased linearly with radiation dose in the dose range of our study, and Qdr showed increasing tendency with dose.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2011

The somatic chromosome numbers of the Korean species of Senecio L. and two related genera are investigated here. Three different chromosome numbers were found: 2n = 40 in Senecio argunensis Turcz., S. nemorensis L., S. vulgaris L., Tephroseris flammea (DC.) Holub and 2n = 44 in T. phaeantha (Nakai) C. Jeffrey & Y.L. Chen. and 2n = 48 in Sinosenecio koreanus (Kom.) B. Nord., T. kirilowii (Turcz. ex DC.) Holub and T. pierotii (Miq.) Holub. The chromosome numbers of Sinosenecio koreanus (Kom.) B. Nord., Tephroseris flammea (DC.) Holub and T. phaeantha (Nakai) C. Jeffrey & Y.L. Chen. were different from those in previous reports.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.97-108
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• 1973

Karyological characteristics and relative DNA values were investigated in four species of the family Cyprinidae of Korean fresh-water. The results obtained were as follows; 1) The two Hemibarus species, H. longirostris and H. labeo, had the aiploid chromosome number of 50. The compliment of former consisted of 7 metacentric, 14 submets- and subtelocentric and 4 telo- or acrocentric pairs, whereas latter had 9, 11 and 5 pairs respectively, Total arm numbers (AN) were 92 and 90. 2) In the case of two species of genus Moroce, M. oxycephalus and M. lagowskii, their diploid number and karyotype showed in identical pattern for each other (2n=50); 6 pairs of metacentrics, 14 pairs of submeta- and subtelocentrics and 5 pairs of telo- or acrocentrics. The AN of both species were 90. 3) Relative DNA values of all species were measured as about 60% that of gold fish. From the above observation, the cytogenetical character was discussed with special concern to the phylogenetic significance.

• Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.68-73
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• 1996

This study was carried out to obtain the basic information on morphological and chromosomal charateristics in the three species of Chinese carps (grass carp; Ctenopharyngodon idellua, bighead carp; Aristichthys nobilis, and silver carp; Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) introduced to Korea from China. C. idellua was differ from A. nobilis and H. molitrix by the number of gill rakers, scales, fin rays, body proportion. A. nobilis and H. molitrix were similar in having ventral keel and many scale number, but H. molitrix was differ from A. nobilis by the connected gill rakers and body color pattern. Diploid chromosome and arm number (fundamental number, NF) of the three species were all the same to 2n=48 and NF=84. Diploid chromosome numbers in the three species are consisted of 10 pairs of metacentric chromosome, 8 pairs of submetacentric chromosome and 6 pairs of acro and/ or telocentric chromosome. Morphological and karyological relationship of the three Chinese carps are discussed.

• Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.10-15
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• 1996

The chromosome numbers of bagrid catfish, Pseudobagrus fulvidraco was 52, nine pairs (No. 1 to 9) were metacentrics with the range of relative length 2.89~6.22 and arm ratio 1.09~1.58 ; thirteen pairs (No. 10 to 22) were submetacentrics with the range of relative length 2.88~5.88 and arm ratio 1.80~3.65 ; and all other pairs (No. 23 to 26) were acrocentrics with the range of relative length 2.63~3.30 and arm ratio 9.01~10.67, and fundamental number was 104. Heteromorphic sex chromosomes were not found. There was not exist significant difference in resultant erythrocyte measurements and parameters between female and male (p<0.05). The mean sizes of cell and nucleus, were $11.03{\times}9.67{\mu}m$ and $4.18{\times}3.66{\mu}m$ respectively. The number of erythrocytes of both females and males were $6{\sim}7{\times}10^5/ml$. Gill tissues from diploid individuals had cells with one or two nucleoli.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.71-80
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• 1996

This paper presents stabilization and position control of the Inverted-Pendulum system with cart by using Evolution Strategies that is one of the Evolutionary Computation and is effective in searching real number. The control input of the Inverted-Pendulum is the element of chromosome corresponding to the divided space of Inverted-Pendulum state variable x, x, 0, 0 . In general, the larger the length of the chromosome is, the longer the time of evolution to search optimal solution is. So in this paper, we propose a scheme that reduce the state space by half by taking the method, that is, converting only the sign of the control input without obtaining separately for the symmetrical sections of the Inverted-Pendulum to improve the speed of Evolution, and improved the efficiency of the entire system in addition to the improvement of the chromosome's evolution time by carrying out the chromosome's evolutional process by two steps one of which is that cart is positioned near the control point and the other cart is positioned far from that point. We propose another method that is Neural Network-Evolution StrategiedNN-ES) Controller. We verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme by computer simulations.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.78-81
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• 2010

Pericentric inversion is not rare in humans and is usually benign. However, pericentric inversion can lead to production of an unbalanced recombinant and might be a cause of repetitive pregnancy loss. Pericentric inversion of chromosome 22 is rare and only a few cases have been reported. We report a case of inv(22)(p13q12) carrier who had history of repetitive pregnancy loss including three spontaneous abortions and one fetal hydrops in which the chromosomal complement was rec(22)dup(22q) inv(22)(p13q12)mat. The maternal inv(22) and fetal rec(22) were confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization using region-specific probes (TUPLE1 on 22q11.2 and ARSA on 22q13). Because the identification of inv(22) or rec(22) in conventional karyotyping might be easily overlooked, great attention and additional molecular tests are required for accurate diagnosis of inv(22) and rec(22).