PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Winzeler, Elizabeth A.
AU  - Castillo-Davis, Cristian I.
AU  - Oshiro, Guy
AU  - Liang, David
AU  - Richards, Daniel R.
AU  - Zhou, Yingyao
AU  - Hartl, Daniel L.
TI  - Genetic Diversity in Yeast Assessed With Whole-Genome Oligonucleotide Arrays
DP  - 2003 Jan 01
TA  - Genetics
PG  - 79--89
VI  - 163
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.genetics.org/content/163/1/79.short
4100  - http://www.genetics.org/content/163/1/79.full
SO  - Genetics2003 Jan 01; 163
AB  - The availability of a complete genome sequence allows the detailed study of intraspecies variability. Here we use high-density oligonucleotide arrays to discover 11,115 single-feature polymorphisms (SFPs) existing in one or more of 14 different yeast strains. We use these SFPs to define regions of genetic identity between common laboratory strains of yeast. We assess the genome-wide distribution of genetic variation on the basis of this yeast population. We find that genome variability is biased toward the ends of chromosomes and is more likely to be found in genes with roles in fermentation or in transport. This subtelomeric bias may arise through recombination between nonhomologous sequences because full-gene deletions are more common in these regions than in more central regions of the chromosome.