International Mammalian Genome Society

The 14th International Mouse Genome Conference (2000)

Table of Contents * Genes, Physical Mapping and Sequencing * Gene Identification * Bioinformatics * Common Resources * RIKEN Session * Functional Genomics * Complex Traits * Mutagenesis * Developmental Genetics and Differentiation * Verne Chapman Memorial Lecture I and II

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B. Gene Identification

B1. The Murine Kyphoscoliosis (ky) Mutant is A Model for Human Idiopathic Scoliosis and is Caused by A Mutation in A Novel Muscle Specific Protein
Gonzalo Blanco, Gary R. Coulton, Andrew Biggin, Christopher Grainge, Jill Moss, Michael Barrett, Anne Berquin, Georges Maréchal, Peter van Mier, Athena Nikitopoulou, Manfred Kraus, Chris Ponting, Roger M. Mason and Steve D. M. Brown

B2. The Identification of Novel Imprinted Loci Using Methylation Sensitive Representation Difference Analysis (Me-RDA)
Rachel J. Smith, Wendy Dean and Gavin Kelsey

B3. Sox6 is A Candidate Gene for p^100H Myopathy, Heart Failure, and Sudden Neonatal Death
Nobuko Hagiwara, Scott E. Klewer, Ricardo A. Samson, Drew Erickson, Mary F. Lyon, and Murray H. Brilliant.

B4. Identification of A Novel RING Finger Protein Associated with Pallidin
Liping Huang and Jane Gitschier

B5. Positional Cloning of a Novel Tumor Suppressor Gene, Rit1
Y. Wakabayashi1, A. Matsuki1, Y. Takahashi1, H. Okano1, Y. Mishima1, O. Niwa2, and R. Kominami1

B6. PYK2b, a Candidate Gene for Rupture of Lens Cataract in Mice
Hiroshi Hiai, Yun Wang, Shinya Toyokuni, Masayoshi Tachibana, Yoshibumi Matsushima

B7. Transgenic Expression of a Mutation in the Sodium Channel Gene Scn2a Results in Seizures and Behavioral Abnormalities
Kearney, J. A., Plummer, N. W, Marianne R. Smith, Jaideep Kapur, Theodore R. Cummins, Stephen G. Waxman, Alan L. Goldin and Miriam H. Meisler

B8. Deletion Screening of the Putative Tumor Suppressor Region of Murine Acute Myeloid Leukemia on Chromosome 2 by FISH, and Characterization of Two Murine Mutants, which Delete the Same Putative Tumor Suppressor Region
Yumiko Nitta, Kazuko Yoshida, Kimio Tanaka, Kenji Kamiya.

B9. SDF2L1, A Putative ER Protein, is A New Member of the Pmt/rt Superfamily
Saburo Fukuda, Masaharu Sumii, Yuji Masuda, Mamoru Takahashi, Norimichi Koike, Jun Teishima and Kenji Kamiya

B10. Characterization of an Insertional Mutation Responsible for Abnormal Limb Development
Dominique Simon-Chazottes, Sylvie Tutois, Franck Bourgade, Martin J. Evans, Michael R. Kuehn, and Jean-Louis Guénet

B11. Functional Analysis of CRAD3 Overexpressed in Mouse Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Masaharu Sumii, Takeshi Yamazaki, Saburo Fukuda, Norimichi Koike, Jun Teishima, Mamoru Takahashi, Yuji Masuda, Shiro Kominami, Kenji Kamiya

B12. Mouse Homologue of the Drosophila pellino Gene, Pli1 on Chr 11 is Affected in the Wobbler Mutant
Schmitt-John, T., Resch, K., Wiegand, C., Fuchs, S., Jockusch, H.

B13. A Novel Imprinting Gene which Carries A Ring Finger Motif was Mutated in A Mutant Mouse Exhibiting Abnormal Osteogenesis and Poly-Cystic Kidney
Michiyo Ishida, Shinji Sasaki, Tomohito Itho, Amy Chen, Lissa Garrette, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris and Shinji Hirotsune

B14. Accumulation of N-acetyl-L-aspartate Causes Epileptic Seizures and Spongiform Degeneration in the Central Nervous System
Kazuhiro Kitada, Tomohide Akimitsu, Yosuke Shigematsu, Akira Kondo, Masashi Sasa, Tadao Serikawa

B15. Positional Cloning of Zitter, the Gene Responsible for Hypomyelination and Vacuolation in the Central Nervous System
Takashi Kuramoto, Kazuhiro Kitada, Toshihide Inui, Yoshifumi Sasaki, Kazumi Ito, Takao Hase, Saburo Kawaguchi, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Kazuwa Nakao, Gregory S Barsh, Minako Nagao, Toshikazu Ushijima, Tadao Serikawa

B16. A Novel Waved Mutant Mouse Develops Dilated Cardiomyopathy
BJ Herron, L Pacella, C. Semsarian, C. Seidman, C Rao, L Stubbs, S Millar, DR Beier

B17. Comparative Sequencing of the Cytochrome P-450 Cyp1a2 Locus Between Inbred Mouse Strains with Normal and Low Expression of the Gene
William L. Casley, Michele Lemieux, Lori Lavigne, Jennifer McCaig, J. Allan Menzies and Larry W. Whitehouse.

B18. Abnormal Signal Transduction by Retrovirus Integration in Pre-B Lymphoma of SL/Kh Mice
Tatsuaki Tsuruyama, Takuro Nakamura, Guang Jin, Hiai Hiroshi

B19. Some Spermatogenic Proteins are Serologically Detectable Male Antigens (SDM) as Revealed by Male-Enhanced Antigen-1 (Mea1) and -2 (Mea2) Identified with Polyclonal and Monoclonal Anti-H-Y Antibodies, Respectively
Shizuyo Sutou, Shoichi Matsukuma, Masaaki Kondo, Yasuhide Ohinata, and Youji Mitsui

B20. Indistinct Replication Senescence of Primary Cultured Mouse Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Despite the Expression of Normal p16Ink4a, p19Arf and p53
Katsuhiro Ogawa, Emi Imamura, Masahiko Obata, Kan Kishibe and Junichi Goto.

B21. Molecular Mechanisms of Positive and Negative Regulation of Per1 Transcription
Akiko Hida-Fukuda, Nobuya Koike, Matsumi Hirose, Masahira Hattori, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, and Hajime Tei

B22. Identification and Characterization of DNA Isolated from Animal Bones Excavated from Kwagji (Cheju, Korea) Archeological Sites
Michael Moon-You Oh, Yong Hwan Jung, Sang Hyun Han, You Sung Oh, and Mi Hee Ko

B23. A RFLP in the Genomic DNA of the Murine Atp7a Gene in the Tortoiseshell Allele
Jingfang Niu, Frank A. Verley, Laura LaFave and Lara Davis

B24. Regulation of SCF Ubiquitin-Ligase Complex by NEDD8/Rub1-Ligating System
Tomoki Chiba and Keiji Tanaka

B25. The Deaf Mouse Mutant Jeff (Jf) is A Single Gene Model for OME (glue ear)
Rachel E. Hardisty, Alexandra Erven, Karen Logan, Patrick M. Nolan, Jo Peters, Sohaila Rastan, A. Jackie Hunter, Steve D. M. Brown and Karen P. Steel

B26. A Missense Mutation of the Melanocortin 1 Receptor Gene Carried by a New Inbred Strain MSKR Derived from Mus musculus molossinus
A. Wada, T. Kunieda, M. Nishimura, Y. Kakizoe-Ishida, M. Okumoto and M. Tsudzuki

B27. Two Interacting Genes, rct and mrct, Regulating New Recessive Cataract in the Mouse
Yukiko Y. Maeda, Nobuaki Funata, Sumiyo Takahama, Yasuo Sugata and Hiromichi Yonekawa

B28. The Genetics of Susceptibility to Mouse Plasmacytomagenesis
Rebecca A. Liddell, Wendy DuBois, Marianne K. Henderson, Hiroyuki Aburatani, David Housman and Beverly A. Mock

B29. Development of Mouse Models for Parkinson's Disease
Cabin, D.E., S. Gispert, K. L. McIlwain*, R. Paylor*, B. Orrison, A. Chen, L. Garrett and R. Nussbaum

B30. Loci Affecting Male Sterility in Hybrids between Mus Macedonicus and C57BL/6
Rosemary W. Elliott, Diane Poslinski, Joanne Pazik and Verne M. Chapman

B31. Tpl2 Knockout Mice are Defective in MAPK Activation by LPS and They are Resistant to LPS/D-Galactosamine-Induced Endotoxin Shock
Calin D. Dumitru, Jeffrey D. Ceci, Christos Tsatsanis, Dimitris Kontoyiannis, Konstantinos Stamatakis, Jun-Hsiang Lin, Christos Patriotis, Nancy A. Jenkins, Neal G. Copeland, George Kollias and Philip N. Tsichlis

B32. SMC1 and SMC3 Proteins Bind to Meiotic Chromosomes in Mouse Spermatogenesis
Rosalina James, Kyoko Yokomori, and Christine M. Disteche

B33. High-throughput Genome Wide Search for Mice Imprinted Genes Using Parthenogenote and Androgenote with RIKEN Full-length Mouse cDNA Microarray Analysis.
Yosuke Mizuno, Yasushi Okazaki, Yasuhiro Tomaru, Hidenori Kiyosawa, Yusuke Sotomaru, Tomohiro Kohno, Hiroshi Amanuma, Masami Muramatsu and Yoshihide Hayashizakib.

B34. In vivo Modulation of HMGIC Reduces Obesity
A. Anand and K. Chada

B35. Characterization of Phenotypes and Genetic Mapping of a New Spontaneous Mutant Mouse Sims (Sexual Immaturity, Megaencephaly, Seizure)
Soo Kyung Koo, Soojung Jin, Jin-Sung Lee, Sue Cook, Wesley Beamer, Rod Bronson, Kenneth Johnson, Barbara Knowles, Muriel Davisson and Bermseok Oh.