Baylor Genetics

A global reference for human genetic variation

The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

The fly Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most intensively studied organisms in biology and serves as a model system for the investigation of many developmental and cellular...

Comparative Genomics of the Eukaryotes

A comparative analysis of the genomes of Drosophila melanogaster , Caenorhabditis elegans , and Saccharomyces cerevisiae —and the proteins they are predicted to encode—was under...

An Unstable Triplet Repeat in a Gene Related to Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy

Synthetic oligonucleotides containing GC-rich triplet sequences were used in a scanning strategy to identify unstable genetic sequences at the myotonic dystrophy (DM) locus. A h...

Genetic variation at five trimeric and tetrameric tandem repeat loci in four human population groups

A framework for the interpretation of de novo mutation in human disease