Elucidating genetic relationships, diversity and population structure among the Turkish female figs

Yazan: admin Tarih: Oca 21st, 2010 | Kategori:: Gene polymorphisms

Ikten H (Ikten, Hatice)2, Mutlu N (Mutlu, Nedim)3, Gulsen O (Gulsen, Osman)1, Kocatas H (Kocatas, Hilmi)4, Aksoy U (Aksoy, Uygun)5

Source: GENETICA Volume: 138 Issue: 2 Pages: 169-177 Published: FEB 2010

Abstract: A collection of 96 female Turkish fig (Ficus carica L.) accessions was studied to elucidate genetic structure and estimate diversity and genetic similarity distribution among the female figs present in Turkish genetic resources, using 157 molecular genome markers including 129 sequence-related amplified polymorphisms, 21 random amplified polymorphic DNAs, and 7 simple-sequence repeats. The plant samples mainly included Turkish fig collections selected throughout the country over the course of a half-century. Neighbor-joining analysis revealed continuous dissimilarity range, and it was difficult to classify figs into distinct groups. The principle component analysis produced similar results. The analysis of molecular variance indicated that 95 and 93% of genetic variation were explained by within geographic origins and similar fruit rind color, respectively. Sub-structuring Bayesian analysis assigned the 96 female figs into four sub-populations, and indicated that they were highly related. The corrected allelic pairwise distances among the six geographic origins were less than 5%. This study suggests that geography- and color-based groups were not genetically distinct among the Turkish figs.
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Author Keywords: Ficus carica; SRAP; Neighbor-joining; PCA; AMOVA; Population structure
KeyWords Plus: FICUS-CARICA L.; GERMPLASM COLLECTION; COMMON FIG; MARKERS; RAPD; RELATEDNESS; GENOTYPES; RFLP; AFLP
Reprint Address: Gulsen, O (reprint author), Erciyes Univ, Dept Hort, Fac Agr, TR-38039 Kayseri, Turkey
Addresses:
1. Erciyes Univ, Dept Hort, Fac Agr, TR-38039 Kayseri, Turkey
2. Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, W Mediterranean Res Inst, TR-07100 Antalya, Turkey
3. Univ Nebraska, George W Beadle Ctr, Dept Biochem, Lincoln, NE 68503 USA
4. Fig Res Inst, TR-09600 Erbeyli, Aydin Turkey
5. Aegean Univ, Fac Agr, Dept Hort, TR-35100 Izmir, Turkey
E-mail Addresses: o_gulsen@yahoo.com


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Genetic Variations in the Hypoxia-inducible Factor-1{alpha} Gene and Lung Cancer.

Yazan: admin Tarih: Ağu 24th, 2009 | Kategori:: Cancer (Kanser), Gene polymorphisms, Lung cancer (Akciğer Kanseri), polymorphisms

Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2009 Jun 22.

Konac E, Dogan I, Onen IH, Yurdakul AS, Ozturk C, Varol A, Ekmekci A.

Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine.

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), an important genetic component of angiogenesis, becomes stable as a response to tumor hypoxia and facilitates tumor survival. The polymorphisms of the HIF-1alpha gene may cause changes in the activity of the protein which serves as a transcription factor for many genes in tumorigenesis. In this study, we have investigated the relationship between seven HIF-1alpha polymorphisms [C>T substitution in intron 8 (rs10873142), T418I (rs41508050) in exon 10, P564P (rs41492849), L580L (rs34005929), P582S (rs11549465), A588T (rs11549467) in exon 12 and dinucleotide GT repeat in intron 13 (rs10645014)] among lung cancer patients in the Turkish population. Genomic DNA was isolated from 141 lung cancer cases and 156 controls and subjected to PCR for amplification. Genotyping was carried out with RFLP and DNA sequencing methods. There was no significant difference between lung cancer cases and controls in terms of the distribution of genotyping frequencies of seven HIF-1alpha polymorphisms (P>0.05). No significant relationship was found between the C>T substitution in intron 8 and P582S haplotypes and development of lung cancer. Also, no significant difference was observed between the genotypes and clinopathological characteristics of the cases. These findings showed that polymorphisms of the HIF-1alpha gene did not confer susceptibility to lung cancer.


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