The transmembrane protein wolframin (WSF1) plays a crucial role in cell integrity in pancreatic beta cells and maintaining ER homeostasis. Genetic variations in the WFS1 gene have been described to be associated with Wolfram syndrome or type 2 diabetes mellitus. In this paper we report on an efficient double-tube allele-specific amplification method in conjunction with ultrafast capillary gel e...

Similarity and diversity among individuals of the same species are expressed in small DNA variations called Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. The knowledge of SNP phase gives rise to the haplotyping problem that in the parsimonious version states to infer the minimum number of haplotypes from a given set of genotype data. ILP technique represents a good resolution strategy for this interesting co...

Fresh Pond Research Institute 1.1 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 1.2 Introduction to Variation, SNPs, Genotypes, and Haplotypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 The Biological Problem • The Computational Problems • The Need for a Genetic Model • Two Major Ap...

Haplotyping is the bioinformatics problem of predicting likely haplotypes based on given genotypes. It can be approached using Gusfield’s perfect phylogeny haplotyping (PPH) method for which polynomial and linear time algorithms exist. These algorithm use sophisticated data structures or do a stepwise transformation of the genotype data into haplotype data and, therefore, need a linear amount o...

Y chromosome polymorphisms such as microsatellites or single nucleotide polymorphisms represent a paternal counterpart to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) for evolutionary and phylogeographic studies. The use of Y chromosome haplotyping in natural populations of species other than humans is still hindered by the lack of sequence information necessary for polymorphism screening. Here we used representa...

We present a novel methodology to determine the phase of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on a chromosome, which we term clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH). The CSH procedure is based on separating the allelic chromosomes of a diploid genome by fosmid/cosmid cloning, and subsequent SNP typing of 96 clone pools, each representing approximately 10% of the genome. The pools are screene...

This article presents a six-rule algorithm for the reconstruction of multiple minimum-recombinant haplotype configurations in pedigrees. The algorithm has three major features: First, it allows exhaustive search of all possible haplotype configurations under the criterion that there are minimum recombinants between markers. Second, its computational requirement is on the order of O(J(2)L(3)) in...