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Evolutionarily new sequences expressed in tumors.

Andrei P Kozlov1, Yuri P Galachyants, Ilya V Dukhovlinov

  • 1The Biomedical Center, 8 Vyborgskaya St,, St,Petersburg, 194044, Russia. contact@biomed.spb.ru

Infectious Agents and Cancer
|December 27, 2006
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Tumors may play a positive evolutionary role by enabling the expression of novel genes. Further studies confirm that human tumor-related transcripts are indeed evolutionarily recent, supporting this concept.

Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genomics
  • Cancer research

Background:

  • The concept of tumors having a positive evolutionary role suggests they facilitate the expression of novel or dormant genes.
  • Tumors are proposed as evolutionary reservoirs for gene expression.
  • Previous work identified a novel class of human tumor-related transcribed sequences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To further investigate previously identified tumor-related sequences.
  • To determine the evolutionary novelty of these human tumor transcripts.

Main Methods:

  • Molecular phylogeny analysis
  • Southern hybridization experiments
  • Comparative genomics across species

Main Results:

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  • Detailed results from molecular phylogeny studies are presented.
  • Southern hybridization experiments provide further data.
  • Computational comparisons with other species' genomes are discussed.

Conclusions:

  • The studied human tumor-related transcripts are relatively new in evolutionary terms.
  • These findings support the hypothesis of tumors acting as evolutionary proving grounds.