Abstract

MSM/Ms mouse derived from the Japanese wild mouse has unique characteristics compared to the widely used C57BL/6 mouse. To examine the usefulness of the MSM/Ms mouse for the comparative genomic analysis, expression of small RNAs were analyzed by the large-scale sequence analysis for two strains of mouse, C57BL/6 and MSM/Ms. As a trial, expression of box C/D snoRNAs, which are the most abundant small RNAs in the cell, were analyzed. By the comparison of the read number for each fragment, 11 snoRNAs with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected. One of the snoRNAs, SNORD53, shows the expression only for MSM/Ms and this snoRNA has a mutation in the box sequence in C57BL/6. Thus, it was demonstrated that the proposed experimental system using SNPs can give new insight for the gene expression regulation.

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