DNAPrint Teams With Victoria Police Forensic Services Center to Win Australian ISL Grant

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telephone (941 -366-3400). Its pediatric research program is
among the largest in the country, ranking second in National Institutes of
Health funding.

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(Photo: http://www.newscom. In contrast, men with a shorter
palindromic sequence had a lower frequency of translocations. Unlike single-gene
diseases such as cystic fibrosis or hemophilia that result from mutations in
one gene, genomic diseases originate in the broader structure of the genome -
the full complement of DNA sequences in sets of chromosomes .

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By and large, these translocations are not cause for alarm, because those
men and their offspring are highly unlikely to be affected.
The disorder, called supernumerary der (22) t(11;22) or Emanuel syndrome,
results from the havoc caused by an extra chromosome composed of parts of
chromosome 11 and chromosome 22.,
chief of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology at The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, and a co-author of the study.chop.

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played a major role in mapping chromosome 22 for that program. Unlike
more random, rarer chromosome translocations, the rearrangement between
chromosomes 11 and 22 tends to recur, which led the researchers to investigate
their DNA breakpoints in detail . Kurahashi is now at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science of
Fujita Health University , Fujita, Japan.

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, DNAPrint genomics
(OTC Bulletin Board: DNAP) (the "Company") announces today that it has teamed
with Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia and the Victoria Police
Forensic Science Services Centre (VFSC) to win a highly competitive 2004
Australian International Science Linkages (ISL) grant.
Recent research by Drs.
Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care,
training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering
major research initiatives, Children's Hospital has fostered many discoveries
that have benefited children worldwide.

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They found an unexpectedly
high frequency of new translocations in the DNA of sperm samples from healthy
individuals. However, when that does occur, the
child has a constitutional t(11;22) translocation - all of their cells carry
the rearrangement.
The disease is rare; hundreds of cases are known worldwide.
"Disorders based on peculiarities of chromosome architecture can be
classified as genomic disorders," said Dr. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public
service programs have brought the 430-bed hospital recognition as a leading
advocate for children and adolescents .

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Parents with an affected child who want to have another child can now have
prenatal testing done during a subsequent pregnancy.

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The subject of the grant, DNAPrint's RETINOME(TM) test, is a genetic assay
for the inference of iris color from DNA. Originating as structural weaknesses in unstable stretches of DNA,
abnormal chromosomes may, rarely, result in a disabling genetic disease one or
two generations later. Like Down syndrome, it is a trisomy, a
disease caused by an extra chromosome .D.
Dr. A grant from the National Institutes
of Health supported this study.

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The test is the first
commercially available "complex" genetics test to have been developed from the
knowledge provided by the recently completed human genome sequencing project. Emanuel, who first described
the disease in 1980 with her colleague Elaine Zackai, M.

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the company, please visit http://www. Its staff
has worked extensively in collaborative projects with industry and government
organizations, one of them being the Victoria Police Forensic Service Center. The DNA Science Branch is
recognized as one of Australia's most forward-thinking and innovative
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Richard Gabriel
DNAPrint Genomics, Inc. Patients with the condition usually
have mental deficiency, growth retardation, a heart defect, cleft or abnormal
palate, and other symptoms.chop .

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About the Victoria Police Forensic Service Center
The biology division of the Victoria Forensic Service Center provides high
quality biological scientific/technical services to Victoria Police and
clients and comprises three branches, the Botany Branch, the Biological
Examination Branch and the DNA Analysis Branch. 17 issue of Science by genetics researchers at The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania
analyzes genetic predisposition to the translocation t(11;22), a swapping of
genetic material between chromosomes 11 and 22.

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About Victoria University, Australia
Victoria University, one of the largest universities in Australia, has a
number of areas of research strengths that match the needs and interests of
existing and potential external stakeholders. Further, if this adult does become a parent,
his or her offspring may have an abnormal chromosomal composition and suffer a
disabling multisystem disease. For more information, visit
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The grant was authored by Victoria University's Dr. uses proprietary human genome research methods to
develop genomic-based services and products. "We already
knew , of course, that every time someone makes gametes, that is, sperm or egg
cells, there is a possibility of introducing DNA changes.D. "The
hairpins and cruciforms are weak points where the DNA can break and rearrange
with DNA from other chromosomes."
Chromosome 22 also has palindromic hairpins and cruciform structures,
where breaks occur and DNA swaps places with DNA from chromosome 11.

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The ISL
program supports Australian scientists, from both the public and private
sectors, to collaborate with international partners on leading-edge science
and technology in order to contribute to Australia 's economic, social and
environmental wellbeing.
Complex genetics tests have heretofore been notoriously difficult to develop,
in part because their determination is the byproduct of multiple, interacting
genes and their expression is usually quantitative rather than discrete (i.
black/white).ancestrybydna .

Chromosome Rearrangements Not As Random As Believed --Genetic Predisposition May Raise Risk of Rare Disabling Syndrome--

PHILADELPHIA, As the human genome gradually yields
up its secrets, scientists are finding some genetic events, such as
rearrangements in chromosomes, are less random than they had previously
thought."
The researchers found that at the site where the translocation would
occur, 87 percent of 394 normal chromosome 11 samples examined had repetitive
stretches enriched in the DNA bases adenine and thymine, 450 bases long, in an
unstable configuration called a palindrome . The other 13 percent of the
chromosomes had shorter palindromic adenine- and thymine-rich sequences .

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asked if some people make those changes at a higher frequency, and found that
this appears to be the case.

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The RETINOME(TM) assay functions by measuring multiple genetic variants
called Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), located in regions of the human
genome that are involved in pigment production.
"We are learning a lot more about how chromosomes behave , or misbehave,
since the completion of the Human Genome Project," said Dr. Emanuel. Emanuel, Kurahashi and colleagues have detected
other palindromic repetitive DNA sequences at the breakpoints of other
translocations, suggesting that these unstable structures may play a broader
role in chromosome abnormalities beyond the t(11;22) rearrangement.edu.

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Although the heart defects were often lethal in the past, advances in
heart surgery are allowing children with Emanuel syndrome to survive longer.

About The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: The Children's Hospital of
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That child, in turn, while otherwise healthy, often has
fertility problems as an adult.

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At the request of a parent support
group, the syndrome was recently named after Dr.
Surprising was the finding that newly arising t(11:22) translocations occurred
with a frequency of approximately one in 100,000 sperm cells from healthy men
with the longer palindromic sequences.

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A report in the Feb., Ph., corresponding author of the paper .

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Swati Baindur-Hudson,
with the assistance of DNAPrint scientists, to support the validation and
potential integration of the Company's RETINOME(TM) test at the VFSC. When used with other DNAPrint
products for the inference of continental (DNAWitness(TM) 2.e.
Customers can learn more about DNAPrint's tests for the inference of
physical characteristics from DNA through email (admin@dnaprint . (For technical reasons, egg cells cannot be tested for
translocations. Many of those
children and their families have been studied by Beverly S. Emanuel, Ph.

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DNAPrint's development of innovative genome screening techniques
and analytical methods enabled it to launch a service version of the test last
August.dnaprint. Approximately one
sperm in 100,000 has the rearrangement, so the chance of an affected sperm
fertilizing an egg is exceedingly low.
"Palindromes are unstable sequences of DNA, and are prone to protrude from
the DNA double helix in fragile structures called hairpins and cruciforms,"
said Hiroki Kurahashi, M.