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Use of the Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) method in veterinary research: A concrete application in the study of the bovine trypanotolerance genetic control.

Cirad-Prise, c/o National Institute for Animal Husbandry (NIAH), Thuy Phuong, Tu Liem, Hanoï, Vietnam.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (impact factor: 3.15). 11/2004; 1026:171-82. DOI:10.1196/annals.1307.026
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ABSTRACT New postgenomic biotechnologies, such as transcriptome analyses, are now able to characterize the full complement of genes involved in the expression of specific biological functions. One of these is the Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) technique, which consists of the construction of transcripts libraries for a quantitative analysis of the entire gene(s) expressed or inactivated at a particular step of cellular activation. Bioinformatic comparisons in the bovine genomic databases allow the identification of several up- and downregulated genes, expressed sequence tags, and unknown functional genes directly involved in the genetic control of the studied biological mechanism. We present and discuss the preliminary results in comparing the expressed genes in two total mRNA transcripts libraries obtained during an experimental Trypanosoma congolense infection in one trypanotolerant N'Dama animal cow. Knowing all the functional genes involved in the trypanotolerance control will permit validation of some results obtained with the quantitative trait locus approach, to set up specific microarrays sets for further metabolic and pharmacological studies, and to design field marker-assisted selection by introgression programs.

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Keywords

Bioinformatic comparisons
 
design field marker-assisted selection
 
downregulated genes
 
entire gene(s)
 
experimental Trypanosoma congolense infection
 
expressed genes
 
functional genes
 
Gene Expression
 
genes
 
genetic control
 
introgression programs
 
pharmacological studies
 
quantitative analysis
 
quantitative trait locus approach
 
Serial Analysis
 
specific biological functions
 
specific microarrays sets
 
total mRNA transcripts libraries
 
trypanotolerant N'Dama animal cow
 
unknown functional genes